'Brazil is not a democracy': Cannes contender's cast stage red carpet protest

Yet it is not an overtly political film, instead meditating on shifting familial allegiances and the way space intersects with identity.

The protest was met by ecstatic applause inside the cinema.

Writer-director Kleber Mendonca Filho, along with his cast and crew, climbed the steps to the Palais in Cannes before revealing a selection of banners apparently objecting to the recent impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff.