short film

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“Trocando de Pele” is a Brazilian short film that explores racism and institutional violence through a speculative skin-whitening experiment.

SYNOPSIS

Yan is a Pharmacy student and the only Black student at his university. During a group project, he is pressured by his classmates to become a test subject in the final trials of a new dermatological product. What he doesn’t know is that he is about to undergo a powerful and irreversible skin-whitening experiment.