Dadá [short film] Dependências
Synopsis
A wealthy matriarch’s important work dinner is thrown into disarray when her housekeeper doesn’t show up. When her (and her adult children’s) incompetence in the kitchen becomes harder to hide from their hungry guests, a wacky comedy of errors ensues in this biting and boisterous class satire.
This film screens as part of the Comedic Shorts: Doing the Most program.
Film Credits
- Bernardo Portella, Luisa Arraes
- Luisa Arraes
- Marina Kosa
- Daniel Venosa
- Thomás Aquino, Marina Vianna, Catharina Caiado, Eduardo Rios, Cris Larin, Leandro Santanna, Clarissa Pinheiro, Suzy Lopes, Vilma Melo
- Arthur Braganti
- Bernardo Portella
- Cosmo Cine do Brasil, Casa Forte, Paris Entretenimento
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Transamazonia
Synopsis
Rebecca, the daughter of missionary Lawrence Byrne, was declared a “miracle” after she survived a plane crash deep in the Amazon forest as a child. Years later, Rebecca has become a healer, sustaining her family’s evangelical mission thanks to her growing fame. But when illegal loggers invade the land, Rebecca wrestles with her role in the community. As Lawrence maneuvers them into the epicenter of the escalating conflict, she begins to question her allegiance to her father, to their mission, and to her faith.
Director Pia Marais (The Unpolished, ChicagoIFF 2007) raises — and collides — religious, political, and environmental stakes to create a searing and timely eco-thriller. As the layers of the knotty plot unfold, exposing shifting alliances and increasingly blurry moral lines, Transamaonzia builds to a chilling, inexorable climax.
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Film Credits
- Sophie Erbs, Tom Dercourt, Pierrick Baudouin, Murielle Thierrin, Claudia Steffen, Christoph Friedel, Jean-Marc Fröhle , Stefano Centini, Chuti Chang, Camilo Cavalcanti, Viviane Mendonça, Jorane Castro, Pia Marais, Alex C. Lo, Guilherme Cezar Coelho, Fernando Loureiro, Christine Vial-Collet, Thomas Jaubert
- Pia Marais, Willem Drost, Martin Rosefeldt
- Matthieu Laclau, Yann-Shan Tsai
- Mathieu de Montgrand
- Helena Zengel, Jeremy Xido, Sabine Timoteo, Hamã Luciano, Rômulo Braga
- Lim Giong
- Annette Fausbøll, Jean-Alexandre Luciani, Joanne Goh, Keong Low
- Cinema Defacto, Gaïjin, Aldabra Films, Pandora Film Produktion, Point Prod, Volos Films, Vitamine C, O Par, Cabocla Filmes, Cinema Inutile, Tigresa & Matizar Filmes, Moonduckling Films, Jazzy Pictures
- https://www.thepartysales.com/movie/transamazonia/
Sponsors
International Competition Program Patron
Jacolyn and John Bucksbaum Family Foundation
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Suçuarana
Synopsis
Suçuarana is the name of a mythical place, a lush landscape that appears in the weathered photo of her mother that Dora carries with her always. Dora has been on the road for a long time, hitching rides through Brazil’s mining region in search of her family’s homeland. But no one seems to know this place, seemingly lost to time. And the open road can be troubling for a woman traveling alone, as the generosity of strangers is suddenly eclipsed by danger. After an accident, Dora seeks refuge in an abandoned factory; there, a group of workers have formed a village and a community bond that feels akin to the home Dora searches for, if just for a moment.
The first feature collaboration between Clarissa Campolina and Sérgio Borges, Suçuarana infuses the road-movie genre with ethereal magical realism, longing for a sense of belonging that is always just out of reach.
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Film Credits
- Luana Melgaço
- Clarissa Campolina, Rodrigo Oliveira
- Luiz Pretti
- Ivo Lopes Araújo
- Sinara Teles, Carlos Francisco
- Marco Scarassati, Djalma Corrêa
- Mariana de Melo, Mariana Mól
- Anavilhana
Sponsors
International Competition Program Patron
Jacolyn and John Bucksbaum Family Foundation
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I’m Still Here Ainda Estou Aqui
Synopsis
Rio de Janeiro, early 1970s. The Paivas family lives under the tightening grip of Brazil’s military dictatorship. Rubens is a former politician, and his wife Eunice (Fernanda Montenegro) is devoted to their five children. They live an enchanted life by the beach surrounded by friends and family, and their humor and affection appear to be their only forms of resistance to the increasing oppression that surrounds them — until the day a violent and arbitrary act changes their lives forever.
In his first fiction film since 2012’s On the Road, the acclaimed director of Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries delivers another powerful political and human drama about his home country, lead by a stunning performance from Central Station star Fernanda Montenegro as the matriarch who must reinvent herself to carve out a new destiny for her family. A gripping tale of Brazil’s dark history, I’m Still Here marks a forceful and masterfully crafted return for the Brazilian auteur.
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Film Credits
- Maria Carlota Bruno, Rodrigo Teixeira, Martine De Clermont-Tonnerre
- Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega
- Alfonso Goncalves, ACE
- Adrian Teijido, ABC
- Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro
- Warren Ellis
- Guilherme Terra, Thierry de Clermont-Tonnerre, Lourenço Sant’anna, Renata Brandão, Juliana Capelini, David Taghioff, Masha Magonova
- VideoFilmes, RT Features, Mact Productions
- https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/imstillhere
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Apocalypse in the Tropics
Synopsis
Where does a democracy end and a theocracy begin? Oscar-nominated filmmaker Petra Costa (The Edge of Democracy) investigates the increasingly powerful grip that evangelicals hold over politics in Brazil, home to one of the largest and swiftest religious shifts in human history. As Costa tells us in her haunting and insightful voiceover, evangelicals have risen from some 5% to 30% of the Brazilian population in just 40 years.
With extraordinary access to the country’s top leaders, including President Lulu da Silva, former President Jair Bolsonaro, and Bolsonaro’s right-hand man, popular Pentecostal televangelist Silas Malafaia, Costa offers a lucid, poetic, and chilling look at the ways in which fear, poverty, and apocalyptic theology can be exploited to consolidate power. It’s a brilliant and gripping case study about the precarity of contemporary democracies with clear resonances in the U.S. today.
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Film Credits
- Alessandra Orofino, Petra Costa
- Petra Costa, Alessandra Orofino, Nels Bangerter, David Barker, Tina Baz
- João Atala, Pedro Urano, Murilo Salazar
- Jenny Raskin, Jim Swartz, Susan Swartz, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Jeffrey Lurie, Marie Therese Guirgis, Felipe Estefan, Rafael Georges Zein, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Meadow Fund, Katy Drake Bettner, Kate Hurwitz, InMaat Foundation, Frida Polli, James Costa, Trevor Burgess
- Busca Vida Filmes
Sponsors
Documentary Program Partner
Documentary Program Patron
Cynthia Stone Raskin
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You can’t get what you want but you can get me [short film]
Samira Elagoz, Z WalshNetherlands, Finland, Germany, United States
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