Sergio

Sergio (2020) is a biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM, with Wagner Moura as Sérgio Vieira de Mello — the Brazilian UN diplomat who spent 34 years negotiating in the world's worst crises, from Cambodia and Mozambique to Kosovo and East Timor. Director Greg Barker had already made a documentary about de Mello before turning his story into this feature.

In the summer of 2003, just as de Mello was preparing to leave field work behind and build a life with Caroline Griffiths (Ana de Armas, playing the character named Carolina in the film as Cara Plein), he took command of the UN's Iraq mission in Baghdad. On 19 August, a truck bomb hit the Canal Hotel headquarters. The film moves between those hours under the rubble and the years before — the choices that brought him there and the relationship he kept putting on hold.

Bradley Whitford and Garret Dillahunt appear in supporting roles. What stays with you is less the geopolitics than the quiet tragedy of a man who kept choosing the job over the life he wanted. Stream Sergio (2020) online on iFILM.