Première Brasil offers a fascinating mix on Thursday Première Brasil dominates the screening schedule at the Cinepolis Lagoon on Thursday as filmmakers continue to introduce their films across the city to Rio audiences.
Première Brasil continues at the Cinepolis Lagoon on Thursday with the competitive screenings of Caco Ciocelr´s documentary Esse Viver Niguem me Tira (The Angel of Hamburg) at 17.00 and Ibere Carvlho's O Ultimo Cine Drive-In (The Last Drive-in Theater) at 21.45
The Angel of Hamburg seeks to rebuild, through images, the time when Aracy Moebius de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa was living in Hamburg, where she fell in love with João Guimarães Rosa. Working as head of the Brazilian consulate passport department, she decided to help Jews to emigrate to Brazil, opposing the Nazi regime and the secret circulars issued by the Getúlio Vargas government. The only Brazilian listed on Jerusalem's Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations, Dona Aracy died at the age of 103 years in 2010.
In Ibere Carvlho's O Ultimo Cine Drive-In, a young worker has to take his mother to do a test in Brasilia. He doesn’t have anyone to turn to, so he decides to get in touch with his father who has been absent from their lives for many years. Owner of the Cine Drive-in Brasilia, the insists on keeping the drive-in alive, despite it no longer attracts the viewers it did in the 1970s.
Actor Eric Smith will present Revolution in Reverse, in which he features, at 19.30 on Thursday at CCJF alongside Chiara Cavallazzi.. At 19.40 director Samuel Theis and actress Angelique Litzenburger will introduce Party Girl at Estação Rio, and at 21.30 Lech Majewski, no stranger to Rio having directed Prisoner of Rio here, will present Field of Dogs at Estação Botafogo.
As part of the Environment section of Festival do Rio, Walter Salles will introduce Jonathan Nossiter's Natural Resistence at Estação Rio at 21.30 on Thursday, while producers Ivan Teixera and Edu Sallouti will introduce the documentary Pump at 19.50.
Recent festival prize winners from San Sebastian and Athens are screening during Festival do Rio. Yann Demange’s ’71 won the best film award – the Golden Athena – at the 20th Athens International Film Festival. ´71 can be seen Thursday at the Roxy at 14.00 and 19.10 and on 5 October at Cinepolis Lagoon at 17.00. Eskil Vogt won the best director trophy in Athens for the Norwegian drama Blind. The film, which also won awards at Berlin and Sundance screens on 6 October at Cinepolis Lagoon at 17.00.
Mexican Alonso Ruiz Palacios’ coming-of-age comedy Gueros, part of Focus Mexico, won the Horizontes section at San Sebastian. Gueros, which also took the Youth Award, screens on Friday at Estação Ipanema, Sunday at Cinepolis Lagoon, and next Monday at Estação Rio.
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