72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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4+1: Contemporary Brazilian cinema
4+1: Contemporary Brazilian cinema
Opening Film
Cao Hamburger
BRAZIL 
105 min.
Opening film Set in the turbulent Sao Paulo of the 70s, the film describes the experiences of a 12 year-old boy whose concerns bear no relation to the military regime that has the country in its grip. A title that competed at the Berlin Festival and won awards at the Havana, Huelva, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo festivals.
Closing Film
EDUARDO COUTINHO
BRAZIL 
105 min.
Closing film In this non-fiction film, Eduardo Coutinho, one of Brazil's most reputed documentary-makers, draws a cutting portrayal of the everyday lives of different women, focusing on how people play different roles in real life.  
Cao Guimaraes
BRAZIL 
80 min.
A film about the relationship between walking and thinking. It portrays the place where things are in constant displacement and don’t settle, a place of transitory thoughts, ephemeral sounds and images, and of life as a mere passage.
CHICO TEIXEIRA
BRAZIL 
90 min.
The portrait of a 40 year-old woman from a working class district of Sao Paulo who struggles to keep her family on her earnings as a manicurist. Prizewinning film in Films in Progress at the San Sebastian Festival in 2006, contender in Horizontes Latinos the following year, and winner of awards at festivals including Chicago, Edinburgh, Guadalajara, Havana, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.  
Andrucha Waddington
BRAZIL 
115 min.
Two of Brazil’s most celebrated actresses, Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres, real-life mother and daughter, won the Best Acting Award at the Guadalajara Festival for their work in this film about the tough lives of three generations of woman who defy the forces of Mother Nature in the inhospitable sand dunes of northern Brazil. 
Sérgio Borges
BRAZIL 
68 min.
Blurring borders between documentary and fiction, this film portrays a few moments from the lives of three men from Belo Horizonte: a transsexual prostitute and academic, a Hare Krishna soccer fan and a would-be writer. A contender at the Rotterdam Festival in 2011.  
Sérgio Oksman
SPAIN 
96 min.
Emmy B. was a guinea pig for Joseph Mengele in Auschwitz. Sixty years later, she accepts to participate in a film. Before the spectators' eyes, the documentary changes course to become a reflection on the tricks of the memory.   
João Moreira Salles
BRAZIL 
80 min.
A documentary about an unfinished film: Santiago was a butler in the house where the director grew up. Years ago, the director tried to make a film about him, but failed. Now he returns to the footage. Prizewinning film at the Miami and Lima festivals. 
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