The Embassy of Brazil in Beirut and Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Center (Brasiliban), in collaboration with Metropolis Association, have the pleasure to present the 5th Brazilian Film Festival, set to take place between July 18 and July 21, 2022 at Sursock Museum Esplanade, Achrafieh, Beirut.
For the first time, all the sessions of the Brazilian Film Festival are going to be held outdoors and free of any charge, as part of the effort of the Embassy of Brazil to provide high quality, COVID-safe, and accessible culture options to the Lebanese audience.
The festival will open with the film The Invisible Life of EurídiceGusmão (‘A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão’) (directed by Karim Aïnouz), which won Un Certain Regard Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. The film takes place in Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s. Guida and Euridice Gusmão are two inseparable sisters living at home with their conservative parents. Although immersed in a traditional life, each one nourishes a dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist, Guida of finding true love. In a dramatic turn, they are separated by their father and forced to live apart. They take control of their separate destinies, while never giving up hope of finding each other.
The other feature films will be:
Pacarrete (directed by Allan Deberton) – An eccentric old woman dances to the beat of her own drum in Allan Deberton’spoignant debut feature. Pacarrete (the sublime MarceliaCartaxo), a former ballet dancer who lives in northeast Brazil, decides to dust off her tutu slip and her ballet slippers to perform a classic dance for her city’s 200th anniversary celebration, whether the townspeople want it or not. A broad comedy turns increasingly contemplative as the true nature of Pacarrete’s daily life becomes apparent.
My Name Is Baghdad (‘Meu Nome é Bagdá) (directed by CaruAlves de Souza) – Baghdad is a 17-year-old female skater, who lives in Freguesia do Ó, a working-class neighborhood in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Baghdad skateboards with a group of male friends and spends a lot of time with her family and with her mother’s friends. Together, the women around her form a network of people who are out of the ordinary. When Baghdad meets a group of female skateboarders, her life suddenly changes.
Three Summers (‘Três Verões’) (directed by Sandra Kogut) – Every December, between Christmas and New Year, Edgar and Marta host a lavish family celebration at their luxurious summer house by the beach. In 2015 all seems well, despite some tense phone calls and a guest wearing an ankle monitor. In 2016 the annual party is abruptly cancelled. What happens to the invisible people living in the orbit of the rich and powerful when these lives collapse? Through the gaze of an employee and a forgotten elderly father, both victims of the neoliberal nightmare, we see a portrait of contemporary Brazil just before the tragedy of 2018. The signs were all there, but we didn’t know how to read them.
All films screened within the framework of the 5th Brazilian Film Festival are scheduled to run at Sursock Museum Esplanade, Achrafieh from July 18 to July 21. All films are accompanied with English subtitles.
Source: National News Agency