**A kind of film that doesn't deserve to be called cinema.** The “film” that brings me here today is truly bizarre: it is a kind of Brazilian production that focuses on the life of a kind of French researcher, whose texts became the cornerstone of a kind of religious-philosophical doctrine that never wanted, or managed, to assume itself as a religion, although it is considered as such by many of its followers. The person who presents this is Wagner de Assis, a kind of obscure director who has dedicated his life and (few) talents to making “films” about Spiritism, which he defends and of…