PortuguêsFestival Winner Heads to Oscars
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s O Som ao Redor (Neighbouring Sounds), which won the Redentor as the best feature film of Première Brasil in 2012, has been chosen to represent Brazil at next year's Academy Awards. O Som ao Redor was one of 14 shortlisted films to go before a panel selected by the Ministry of Culture. The last Brazilian film shortlisted for an Academy Award, was Central Station in 1998, although City of God did receive four nominations in 2003.
The film, which has been released in 10 countries and played more than 70 festivals, has already been chosen by the New York Times as one of the best ten films of 2012. The New York Times’ A.O.Scott noted: In his first feature, Mr Mendonça a former film critic, chronicles the daily rhythms of life in an affluent apartment complex in the Brazilian coastal city of Recife. What emerges is a subtle portrait of a society in the throes of rapid social transformation, still haunted by the cruelties of its feudal past.
Film critic and film programmer, Mendonça Filho, also picked up a Redentor at last year's festival for his screenplay for O Som ao Redor.
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