Shot in Rio de Janeiro between 2009 and 2011, the Nights Without Carnival series is a part of Evangelia Kranioti's fieldwork research prior to her debut documentary feature Exotica, Erotica, Etc. Focusing mainly on the stigmatised neighborhood of Praça Maua, Nights Without Carnival document the days and nights of the human fauna bustling around the old port of Rio, an area doomed to disappear a few years later due to an intense process of gentrification and urban redevelopement.