The Honest Candidate

He is a politician. He is honest. Believe it or not.

A high-spirited political satire that uses magical realism and absurdist humor to explore the collision between honesty and ambition in a corrupt electoral system.

João Ernesto Ribamar is a corrupt politician running for the presidency. He is in the runoff election, ahead on the polls, when he receives a "mandinga" (curse) from his grandmother, which makes him unable to lie. Now the problem begins: How to win an election by telling only the truth?