Protesys (2020)

Release Date: 2020-08-23
Runtime: 0h 10min
Production Company: Black Filmes
Production Country: Brazil
Director: Afonso Poyart

The production mixes documentary narrative with fiction, showing the overcoming story of Flávio Reitz, a Paralympic medalist who was diagnosed with a tumor in the left leg femur as a teenager and had to amputate it. The turnaround comes when Flavio is invited by an American start-up, the fictional SOLIDLIMBS, to test a revolutionary bionic prosthesis technology.