Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (Babenco: Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer Parou, literally "Someone has to listen to the heart and say it stopped") is a 2019 Brazilian documentary film directed by Bárbara Paz. The film premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, where it won Best Documentary on Cinema. It focuses on the last years of life of filmmaker Hector Babenco, who died in 2016, victimized by a cancer. It was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Awards and nominations

 * WINNER: Venice Film Festival Best Documentary on Cinema (Italia) 2019
 * WINNER: Bisato D'oro Independent Critic Award of Venice Film Festival (Italia) 2019
 * WINNER: MIFF 2020 Best Documentary (India) 2020
 * WINNER: FICVIÑA 2020 Best Latin American Documentary Feature Film (Chile) 2020
 * SPECIAL MENTION: IDF 2020 4th West Lake International Documentary Festival (China) 2020
 * WINNER: GZDOC 2020 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival (China) 2020
 * NOMINADA: Mejor película iberoamericana en la 63° edición de los Premios Ariel entregada por la Academia Méxicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas