Walter Salles’s Brazilian Oscar submission I’m Nonetheless Right here will open the sixteenth Hollywood Brazilian Movie Competition later this month with the filmmaker and star Fernanda Torres in attendance.
I’m Nonetheless Right here tells the true story of Eunice Jovem, a spouse and mom who should reinvent herself and defend her household within the early Nineteen Seventies when her husband, a former politician, disappears below the navy dictatorship.
Torres has earned approval for her function and can participate in a post-screening Q&A on the Academy Museum of Movement Footage. The pageant runs October 29 to November 2.
Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega received finest screenplay award at Venice Movie Competition when the movie premiered on September 1. Sony Footage Classics will launch the drama later this yr.
“Brazilian cinema is experiencing a rare second, with filmmakers creating daring and unique works that seize the spirit of our tradition,” mentioned Talize Sayegh, pageant founder and govt director. “We goal to amplify the voices of filmmakers who convey distinctive and underrepresented views to the display screen.”
The pageant’s movie slate of screenings introduced with American Cinematheque on the Los Feliz 3 and Aero Theatres contains: Cidade; Campo by Juliana Rojas, which received finest director at Berlinale’s Encounters; Sundance favourite Malu by Pedro Freire; and Child, directed by Marcelo Caetano, winner of the Cannes Critics’ Week Prize.
The pageant will function a free screening of the whole HBO unique sequence Metropolis of God: The Battle Rages On (Cidade de Deus: A Luta Não Para) on November 2 adopted by a Q&A with director Aly Muritiba.
Occasions embrace the second version of ‘Assume Cinema Assume Brazil Lab – Variety & Inclusion Initiative’ in collaboration with SPCINE, which helps six Indigenous, Black, and LGBTQIA+ filmmakers with mentorship from main Hollywood trade professionals.