Brazilian Program
Brazilian Program
Latin whirlwind! The Brazilian Program
This year has been designated the Japan-Brazil Exchange Year in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Japanese immigration to Brazil. To commemorate the occasion, the Film Festival will be featuring Brazilian films which have been creating a Latin whirlwind in the recent film industry. We will be showing two excellent documentary short films by the master filmmaker, Water Salles, as well as some of the hottest Brazilian short films specially selected from the two representative film festivals of Brazil, the San Paulo International Short Film Festival and the Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival.
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Alphaville 2007
Paulinho Caruso / 16:00 / Experimental / Brazil / 2007
Alphaville tells the story of a lost Cowboy that uses violence for live in the third world.
Tori
Andrea Midori Simao & Quelany Vicente / 17:00 / Drama / Brazil / 2006
São Paulo, Brazil. The 50’s. Emi, an eight-year-old girl, daughter of Japanese immigrants, goes after her missing brother to give him the egg his birds have laid.
Pixinguinha, the Old School of Samba/Pixinguinha e a Velha Guarda do Samba
Thomaz Farkas / 10:00 / Documentary / Brazil / 2006
In April 1954, Thomaz Farkas shot, with his wind-up 16mm camera, Pixinguinha e o Pessoal da Velha Guarda at São Paulo’s fourth centenary festivities. This material was lost and then rediscovered 50 years later.
Saliva
Esmir Filho / 15:00 / Fantasy / Brazil / 2007
The mind of a very young girl, 12 years old Marina who’s going to be kissed for the first time. Doubts and fears drowned in saliva.
The Holly Ass-and the city that was finished before it began-/O Jumento Santo e a Cidade que se acabou antes de comecar
Leo D. & William Paiva / 11:00 / Animation / Brazil / 2007
The hinterland of Brazil will never be the same, after the donkey Limoeiro come to the surface to pull the ear of the humanity, who lost to the temptation of the Devil.
We are All Children of the Earth/Somos Todos Filhos da Terra
Walter Salles / 8:00 / Documentary / Brazil / 1998
Living in the Cantagalo slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Adão Xalebaradã has written more than 500 songs. His songs have never been recorded.
Christine Ordioni 2005
Dekasegui
Roberto Maxwell / 11:14 / Documentary / Brazil / 2006
Brazilian? Japanese? Lost in a world full of strange sounds, Brazilians of Japanese ascendent live close to their roots but far from home.
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Pugile
Danilo Solferini / 21:00 / Drama / Brazil / 2007
Step/Passo
Alê Abreu / 3:00 / Animation / Brazil / 2006
A bird tries to escape his cage
Soccro Nobre/Life Somewhere Else
Walter Salles / 23:00 / Documentary / Brazil / 1995
“Life Somewhere Else” is shot in black and white. It is a moving film about the unusual relationship between a well known sculptor, Frans Krajcberg, and Socorro Nobre, a female inmate of the high-security state penitentiary in Bahia, Brazil.
Hide and Seek/Esconde-Esconde
Alvaro Furloni / 14:30 / Drama / Brazil / 2007
Amaro and Regina find different ways of dealing with the death of their only child
The Twinkle in My Eyes/O Brilho dos Meus Olhos
Allan Ribeiro / 11:00 / Drama / Brazil /
A man searches of a prodigious moment to make any sense to continue living.
Springtime/Primavera
Maur ício Osaki / 15:00 / Drama / Brazil / 2007
The son of a Brazilian and a Japanese descent goes with his parents to Kinkaku-Ji to visit his grandmother’s grave. As he arrives at the temple, he becomes afraid, until he meets Alice, a young girl of his age.
Please note that guests and program contents are subject to change without notice and tickets are not refundable.
