Oxygen Masks Will Not Drop Down Automatically(2025)

Oxygen Masks Will Not Drop Down Automatically is a Brazilian drama set in 1988 that follows Fernando, a charming flight attendant who shuttles between Rio and New York while living without restraint. As an AIDS crisis spreads around him, Fernando ignores the mounting deaths until his own HIV diagnosis forces a reckoning. Determined to survive, he becomes a smuggler, risking everything to bring an illegal drug from the US into Brazil. The film captures a pivotal moment in the epidemic through one man's journey from denial to defiance, exploring themes of love, mortality, and the desperation that drives ordinary people to extraordinary acts.