PortuguêsSunday suggestions for Festival do Rio
The documentary is about Christopher Kirk, an American IT man who moved to Colombia after reading about Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamus. It is also a film about a story that Kirk obsessively tells and retells about his infatuation with a mysterious Japanese-Colombian woman. A story that may or may not have to do with Kirk's arrest in Brazil in 2009 for international drug trafficking.
"Obra" in Portuguese is basically a building site, and in Graziosi's film a young architect in São Paulo is involved in his first big construction project where he witnesses the discovery of a mass grave on land belonging to his ancestors. Questioning his past and origins, he is in conflict with his conscience, family heritage and the memory of the city that comes to the surface.
On Sunday there will be back to back presentations by filmmakers at Estação Rio 2. At 15.00 Malik Vitthal will present Imperial Dreams, that premiered at this year's Sundance Festival. This is followed at 19.15 by Celina Murga who, along with her producer Juan Villegas, will present The Third Side of the River (La Tercera orilla), part of Latin Premiere that premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival.
Julien Temple's Rio 50 Degrees gets its Brazilian premiere and first of four festival screenings on Sunday at 16.30 in Estação Rio 1. Temple paints his picture of the Rio behind the headlines as the city prepares to host the World Cup and Olympics. When shown in the UK a leading critic noted: "It is music that gives Rio 50 Degrees its pulsing energy. There won’t be a better portrait of Rio between now and the World Cup, perhaps not for a long time." Temple has been a festival guest and last attended in 2012 when he presented London: The Modern Babylon.
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