There's no doubting Camila Freitas commitment to her documentary about the Landless Workers Rights movement (Mst) and its grassroots efforts for land reform but the end result, shot over four years, is frustratingly shapeless.
She adopts an immersive approach that aims to take us to the heart of the movement but the story she is trying to tell would benefit greatly from having some of the intertitles that are included, almost like a book, at the end, included at the start, so that viewers unfamiliar with the situation in Brazil could be oriented to the situation as regards land ownership before she dives in.
Instead, we're left to eavesdrop on conversations between activists who have founded a camp on the land of a factory that has been in debt to the government for years. There's no doubting their commitment to the cause - "this is not a weekend" movement - but there's a.
She adopts an immersive approach that aims to take us to the heart of the movement but the story she is trying to tell would benefit greatly from having some of the intertitles that are included, almost like a book, at the end, included at the start, so that viewers unfamiliar with the situation in Brazil could be oriented to the situation as regards land ownership before she dives in.
Instead, we're left to eavesdrop on conversations between activists who have founded a camp on the land of a factory that has been in debt to the government for years. There's no doubting their commitment to the cause - "this is not a weekend" movement - but there's a.
- 7/21/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Mubi's series New Brazilian Cinema is showing June - September, 2020.Above: LandlessAs I write about current Brazilian cinema, Brazilian Cinemateca, the preeminent institution for preservation of the country’s film history, is in danger of collapsing. Its employees haven’t been paid for months and the reels in its archives aren’t properly protected. The country's film industry launches strikes and petitions against the government’s plan to close the organization, which would damn the cultural heritage it shelters. How to consider the urgency of contemporary Brazilian film in this dire context? Perhaps by framing it as narratives of crises and resilience. No image inscribes itself as well into this allegory as one at the end of Landless, a documentary by Camila Freitas that premiered at Berlinale: Gusts of relentless wind punish arid earth, covering a settlement of scattered humble tents in a vicious swirl of red dust. This...
- 7/6/2020
- MUBI
Gap financing event to present 56 feature film and Vr projects.
UK director Steve McQueen’s upcoming documentary The Occupied City is among 56 projects selected for the Venice Production Bridge, the gap financing event of the Venice Film Festival, which is due to take place from September 2-12.
The three-day industry event, running September 4-6, will unveil 28 feature-length fiction and documentary projects and 12 immersive story projects.
It will also present 13 Vr projects and three cinema projects developed under the auspices of the Biennale College Cinema programme aimed at supporting emerging talents.
More than 270 project were submitted in total.
The event, involving pitches and one-on-one meetings,...
UK director Steve McQueen’s upcoming documentary The Occupied City is among 56 projects selected for the Venice Production Bridge, the gap financing event of the Venice Film Festival, which is due to take place from September 2-12.
The three-day industry event, running September 4-6, will unveil 28 feature-length fiction and documentary projects and 12 immersive story projects.
It will also present 13 Vr projects and three cinema projects developed under the auspices of the Biennale College Cinema programme aimed at supporting emerging talents.
More than 270 project were submitted in total.
The event, involving pitches and one-on-one meetings,...
- 6/23/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
The CineStar’s eight screens host Panorama, Forum and Efm screenings.
The Berlin Film Festival is on the hunt for alternative screening venues for its 70th edition in February 2020 following news the CineStar cinema complex in the Sony Centre in Potsdamer Platz may be on the verge of shutting down.
Jörg Reichel, an official at German trade union ver.di representing the complex’s some 120 staff, told local Berlin TV station Rbb earlier this week the venue was under threat of closure.
If it happens, the Berlinale will have eight fewer screens available in and around its Potsdamer Platz hub for festival and market screenings.
The Berlin Film Festival is on the hunt for alternative screening venues for its 70th edition in February 2020 following news the CineStar cinema complex in the Sony Centre in Potsdamer Platz may be on the verge of shutting down.
Jörg Reichel, an official at German trade union ver.di representing the complex’s some 120 staff, told local Berlin TV station Rbb earlier this week the venue was under threat of closure.
If it happens, the Berlinale will have eight fewer screens available in and around its Potsdamer Platz hub for festival and market screenings.
- 6/19/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The Blue Flower of Novalis
Gustavo Vinagre, Rodrigo Carneiro
The 40-year-old, unabashedly HIV-positive Marcelo (Vinagre) recounts his revealing “biography” — from his sexual adventures to his fears and frustrations — and recites German romantic writer Novalis’ “Heinrich von Ofterdingen.”
Brief Story From the Green Planet
Santiago Loza
A buddy movie with an alien, Argentine Loza’s 10th feature takes a look at three outsiders — trans Tani; Pedro, a voguing dancer; and Daniela, depressed after a break-up — tasked with returning an alien, a friend of Tani’s grandma, back to its planet. A low-fi road movie about friendship.
Divine Love
Gabriel Mascaro
Set in 2027 in a Brazil swept by evangelicism, immersed in disco hymns, drive-in confessionals and pregnancy detectors, a deeply religious divorced notary attempts to reconcile her faith, her job and her inability to conceive. Well received at Sundance. Sales: Memento Films Intl.
Greta
Armando Praça; Rec
Productores Asociados
A coming-of-belated-age drama,...
Gustavo Vinagre, Rodrigo Carneiro
The 40-year-old, unabashedly HIV-positive Marcelo (Vinagre) recounts his revealing “biography” — from his sexual adventures to his fears and frustrations — and recites German romantic writer Novalis’ “Heinrich von Ofterdingen.”
Brief Story From the Green Planet
Santiago Loza
A buddy movie with an alien, Argentine Loza’s 10th feature takes a look at three outsiders — trans Tani; Pedro, a voguing dancer; and Daniela, depressed after a break-up — tasked with returning an alien, a friend of Tani’s grandma, back to its planet. A low-fi road movie about friendship.
Divine Love
Gabriel Mascaro
Set in 2027 in a Brazil swept by evangelicism, immersed in disco hymns, drive-in confessionals and pregnancy detectors, a deeply religious divorced notary attempts to reconcile her faith, her job and her inability to conceive. Well received at Sundance. Sales: Memento Films Intl.
Greta
Armando Praça; Rec
Productores Asociados
A coming-of-belated-age drama,...
- 2/7/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Sandro Fiorin’s Miami-based FiGa Films, a leading sales agent on the independent Latin American scene, has announced the acquisition of Brazilian doc “Landless,” and released a trailer for the Costa Rican-Spanish drama “El despertar de las hormigas.”
Both features will play at this year’s Berlinale Forum and come from young Latin American filmmakers making their feature debuts.
FiGa typically backs seven-to-eight features a year which demonstrate a strong social conscience and explore contemporary, hot-button themes. Typically the company looks to board early on in a film’s lifecycle, employing its expertise to help find the festivals and exhibitors around the world that offer the best fit for each film.
“El despertar de las hormigas” comes from Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss, and is a direct follow-up to her short debut “El despertar de las hormigas: la niñez.” It’s produced by Amaya Izquierdo.
The film turns on Isabel,...
Both features will play at this year’s Berlinale Forum and come from young Latin American filmmakers making their feature debuts.
FiGa typically backs seven-to-eight features a year which demonstrate a strong social conscience and explore contemporary, hot-button themes. Typically the company looks to board early on in a film’s lifecycle, employing its expertise to help find the festivals and exhibitors around the world that offer the best fit for each film.
“El despertar de las hormigas” comes from Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss, and is a direct follow-up to her short debut “El despertar de las hormigas: la niñez.” It’s produced by Amaya Izquierdo.
The film turns on Isabel,...
- 1/21/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Selection includes 39 titles and 31 world premieres.
This year’s Forum programme at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) will feature 39 films, including 31 world premieres.
The Forum brings together challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
Highlights include a Super 8 silent vision of Elfriede Jelinek’s ghost novel ’Die Kinder der Toten’ in a film of the same name by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, Ghassan Salhab’s “essayistic collage” An Open Rose for which the filmmaker has used the letters from prison by Polish Marxist Rosa Luxembourg, and the documentary Landless, the...
This year’s Forum programme at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) will feature 39 films, including 31 world premieres.
The Forum brings together challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
Highlights include a Super 8 silent vision of Elfriede Jelinek’s ghost novel ’Die Kinder der Toten’ in a film of the same name by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, Ghassan Salhab’s “essayistic collage” An Open Rose for which the filmmaker has used the letters from prison by Polish Marxist Rosa Luxembourg, and the documentary Landless, the...
- 1/18/2019
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
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