02/06/2021
Registration is required but access to the virtual film festival is free.
"The SDSU Brazilian Film Series has Brazilian film streaming on demand for free. The 2019 documentary, Amazônia: O despertar da florestania, is available in February and followed by an interview with co-directors Christiane Torloni and Miguel Przewodowsky. All films and interviews are available with subtitles in English.
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1. Amazonia: The Awakening of Florestania
https://youtu.be/ER5dRXgXxwc
“Discussing how the Amazon forest and Nature itself have been treated in Brazil since the beginning of the 20th century, the documentary brings together the testimonies of many different personalities in Brazilian society, such as indigenous leaderships, environmentalists, representatives of the third sector, journalists, artists, and intellectuals who have been somehow fighting to preserve this most precious Brazilian legacy.”
2. Café con canela/Coffee with Cinnamon
https://youtu.be/N9ZULi44fko
“Margarida lives in São Felix, isolated after the loss of her son. Violeta leads her life in Cachoeira, between the adversities of her day-to-day and traumas of the past. When Violeta re-encounters Margarida, she begins a process of transformation, marked by visits, cleanings, and coffee with cinnamon, capable of awakening new friendships and old loves.”
3. The Devil’s Knot/O No do Diabo
[No trailer available]
“Two centuries ago, during slavery, a sugar cane farm is a stage for horror. Nowadays, the cruel past remains marked on the walls of that place, even if no one notices. Strange events begin to unravel and death becomes evident in the five tales that illustrate the narrative.“
4. No coraçao do mundo/In The Heart of The World
https://vimeo.com/364858418
“Dona Sônia borrowed a gun from her neighbor Alcides, to avenge her son, Joca, who was killed by Beto, who is Miro’s brother, who is Rose’s lover, who is Selma’s friend, who works with Marcos, who is Ana’s boyfriend, who wants to leave Contagem and have a better life in the heart of the world”
5. Praça Paris
https://vimeo.com/232060188
“Praça Paris is a thriller that shows the conflict between Camila, a Portuguese psychoanalyst who came to Brazil to conduct research on violence, and her patient, Gloria, in the Therapy Center of a Brazilian university (UERJ). Gloria is an elevator attendant at the university and has a very difficult history of violence: r***d by her father, she has only her brother, who always protected her, but was also a drug lord. Fear, traumas, action and obsession merge in a game of pleasure and guilt, madness and sanity, construction and deconstruction - from the urban Rio de Janeiro surrounding Camila and Gloria and, above all, from their own lives.”
6. Queen of Lap
https://vimeo.com/418083940
“A proud transgender s*x worker since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz, now fifty-nine, shapes a new reality in her “hostel” by housing a new generation of transgender s*x workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Queen of Lapa is a documentary that explores the day-to-day lives, rivalries, and quests for love of s*x workers, as Muniz’s guides them in a city full of hostility towards its LGBTQ community.”
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The Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University interviewed Maurílio Martins and Gabriel Martins in November 2020 to discuss filmmaking in Brazilian peripheries, their process as filmmakers, and their film, No coração do mundo/In the Heart of the World. In the Heart ...
