We’ve already had the opportunity to talk better about how a film curatorship works right here, in this column, with examples to expand accessibility since festivals went online with the pandemic (read here). At that time, we had focused on the animus of the selection of the 27th Vitória Film Festival, in which the virtuality of the occasion boosted the catharsis of films on the screens at home, with works that reflected on the relationship of the body with the territory – something very welcome to debate in a period of social distancing and confinement in accordance with security protocols.
Behold, the 28th edition continues to challenge our perceptions in light of the dismantling of public policies that the country’s current administration has been carrying out. If the collective has been hampered by ideas that deviate from the interests of the people, the current selection of films puts on the agenda the individuation of our responsibilities. We will see films that challenge individuals to preconceived views, requiring the formation of clear and clear opinions, in order to tread aesthetic paths that borrow from the test language to express the emancipation of the lyrical self, not only of a nation, but of characters which reflect our emotional state of indignation against current injustices.
The biggest film and audiovisual event in Espírito Santo will take place between November 23 and 28, 2021, in online format as a result of the safety protocols related to the Covid-19 pandemic. 92 films were selected, including feature and short films, which will be shown in 12 exhibitions, 11 competitive and one out of competition. The works chosen by the Selection Committee compete for the Vitória Trophy in 32 categories. The choice of winners is made by the Festival’s Jury Committees, made up of film experts and professionals, in addition to voting by the Popular Jury. Twenty films by black and black directors were selected; 27 films directed by women, 5 directed by black women; 29 films with a sexual diversity theme; in addition to 9 university films.
The films chosen by the curatorship of the festival will be distributed in 12 screening windows. Among them are the 25th National Competitive Short Film, with a selection of titles from the recent crop of Brazilian cinema; the 11th National Feature Competitive Exhibition, which will feature the screening of six films in the competition; the 11th Mostra Quatro Estações, with productions that address the theme of sexual diversity; the 10th Mostra Foco Capixaba, an exclusive window for filmmakers from Espírito Santo; the 10th Mostra Corsária, with films that present research on the language of cinematographic aesthetics; the 8th Mostra Outros Olhares, which proposes the observation of the construction of new worlds from private experiences.
Two of the longest-running exhibitions of the festival are the traditional section of national short films and that of feature films produced in Brazil or internationally, in one of the best panoramas of the year. The Selection Committee for the 28th Vitória Film Festival is made up of professionals with a recognized career in the audiovisual field, such as the team of the 11th National Competitive Film Festival, composed of curator, cultural producer and journalist Leila Bourdoukan and professor at the Instituto de Artes da State University of Campinas (Unicamp) Gilberto Alexandre Sobrinho. As well as an incredible team behind the 25th National Competitive Short Film (also curators of the 11th Mostra Quatro Estações, 10th Mostra Foco Capixaba, 10th Mostra Corsária, 8th Mostra Other Looks), bringing together the curator, filmmaker and producer from the Cinema course from UFF, Flavia Candida, the filmmaker, writer and researcher in the audiovisual area, PhD in Communication and Culture from UFRJ, and professor at Poscom, from Ufes, Erly Vieira Jr, and the audiovisual producer and also curator Waldir Segundo.
The selected feature films are “Mulher Oceano” (Djin Sganzerla, FIC, RJ, 99′), “A Última Cidade” (Victor Furtado, FIC, CE, 70′), “ Mirador” (Bruno Costa, FIC, PR, 95′), “Lettuce Nights” (Zeca Ferreira, FIC, RJ, 79′), “Máquina do Desejo” (Joaquim Castro and Lucas Weglinski, DOC, SP, 110′) , “The Same Part of a Man” (Ana Johann, FIC, PR, 99′). Pearls of the year’s most awarded, which very well summarize the motivation for choosing the short films in the other shows.
We can cite cherries from the curatorial cake as with works of the “Woman’s name” Oceano” by Djin Sganzerla, debuts as feature film director of the actress, daughter of the masters Helena Ignez and the late Rogerio Sganzerla, and whose film is nominated for debut revelation at the 2021 Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix. -Japan to debate about the split of his own character that splits into two, one that writes the story of the other, each on different ends of the globe. This metaphorical dichotomy speaks a lot about the history of the country itself, currently polarized between opposing ideologies, one inclusive and the other excluding, and having to heal the wounds of this litigious divorce that needs to rescue an idea of the people in order to continue after the pandemic and the 2022 elections.
Not that Djin’s film has partisan pretensions, remembering that every film is political, but it would not necessarily be forced to take sides… However, what happens, in fact, is to give an example that the first step is to know our inner truth before all this, and how we can share this truth with our neighbors, in order to build bridges and paths – regardless of the distance. And there is no greater metaphorical distance on the world map than the other time zone of life in Japan – perfect metaphor à la “Meetings and Mismatches” to bring our differences in new dialogs (read full review here).
Another highlight of this signature of the curatorship decentralizes Brazilian narratives beyond the Rio-São Paulo axis and takes us on a quixotic journey through Ceará in “The Last City”, a delirious kaleidoscope about our relationship with the city, between land and concrete, where the alleged developmental modernism are mills that spit fire against the freedom of our imagination. The talented actor Julio Adrião (“Sertânia” by Geraldo Sarno, 2020) lends his powerful interiorization, almost speechless, to body expressions and gestures to give us the essence of acting, sustaining the entire scene from daydreaming and suggestive power in working with the audience’s spectatorship.
The audience is an active agent in recreating the story together with the protagonist, in the gaps left on purpose, while the photography conceived by the filmmaker Victor Furtado himself , another newcomer to feature films, helps in the narrative mise-en-scène that counts more for the symbols illuminated on the screen, between shadows and neon, than for the unnecessary dialogues. The final fight of silhouettes between our Brazilian Don Quixote, in an update by Lampião militant, and the industrial representative of predatory urbanization, against the contrast of the beautiful Ceará port illuminated as a background, is simply breathtaking.
But the compilation of revelations in first works in the direction does not end here, because one more example that we can highlight is “The Same Part of a Man” by Ana Johann, in her first fiction feature, and which deserves to expand its Festivals route after an award-winning debut since the last Tiradentes Show at the beginning of the year. Johann brings the naturalism of his documentaries in the imagery part of this fiction to expand the fabled extrafield through the drawing of sound and the unsaid, in a plot that alludes to the classic pantomime farces of the theater.
We follow the point of view of mother and daughter who lose the man of the house and are subject on their farm to onslaughts from others interested not only in their land, but also in their honors and bodies. And, in this extremely patriarchal universe, behold, a sweet and kind man appears, completely without memory, and that both will pretend to be the missing husband/father. Much of the merit is due to the spectacular one-two between Clarissa Kiste and Irandhir Santos, in a chemistry in a state of grace, whose staging is the driving force for both artists to experiment on each other, in the meeting and mismatch of their lines and touches, in order to reinvent the scene.
In addition to the range of directorial debut mentioned above, we will also have more premieres, as in the closing film “I Hope You’re Finding and That You’re Well”, first feature directed by the famous automaker Natara Ney (DOC, RJ/PE,84′), multi-awarded at the last Brasília Festival last year, which will be shown in character hors-concours ; as well as mentioning the Special Opening Session equally out of competition of the still unpublished “A Matéria Noturna” by Bernard Lessa (DOC, ES, 89′).
Already in the field of shorts, we have some of the most renowned works in the field, whose copies will be contributing directly to prestigious International Festivals, such as the case of “Ato” by Bárbara Paz (FIC, MG, 21′), which has just arrived directly from Venice; as well as “Silver” by Lucas Melo (EXP, RJ, 21′), all filmed in Nova Iguaçu/RJ, in addition to being a strong candidate to compete in the Oscar 2022 after winning the Mostra Curta Cinema 2020 (which qualifies its winners for the golden figurine). Not to mention the recent work by filmmaker Carlos Segundo, “De Vez em Quando eu Ardo” (FIC, MG, 15′), and whose other film still unpublished here (“Sideral”) competed in Cannes 2021.
For Lucia Caus, director of the Vitória Film Festival, the films chosen by the Selection Committee represent the plurality of recent audiovisual production produced in the country. “The curatorship takes a careful look at the different genres of contemporary Brazilian film production. It is always a challenge and, at the same time, a pleasure to give visibility to so many films and see up close all the creative potential of our directors”.
At the 31st Cine Ceará, the main Ibero-American Competitive Exhibition in Brazil, bringing together films not only in Portuguese but also in Spanish, in a great unifying pangea of peoples and cultures, we will have films new films from two of the most relevant filmmakers in the current scene of the seventh art and silverware of the house in Ceará: Petrus Cariry and Armando Praça! A real giants competition, as both have been winners of all the Festival’s awards in previous editions, which will make this year’s selection extremely fierce! Not to mention foreign films on an equal footing and favoritism with the others!
Petrus Cariry is an artisan of the time in cinematographic imagery, and previous works were awarded internationally, such as “O Barco ” (2018) and “Clarisse or Something About Us Two” (2015), and now comes with the unprecedented “A Praia do Fim do Mundo”. While Armando Praça is largely responsible for evolving queer aesthetics in Brazil with films like “Greta” with Marco Nanini (2019) – who was unfairly recognized by common sense for having been censored by the current government in power, but whose power and artistic contribution are much greater than that – and that now brings us the also exclusive and unprecedented “Fortaleza Hotel”.
The Ibero-American Feature Film Show presents six feature films produced in six countries: Brazil, Uruguay, Italy, Puerto Rico, Colombia and Ecuador. Unpublished in Brazil, four films were shown at important festivals, in addition to two Brazilians in world premieres. The curatorship of the feature film competition was under the responsibility of Margarita Hernandez, program director of the event (check out the debate with her in the podcast Reserva Imovision on the situation of Latin American cinema and some views of Cine Ceará since its foundation by clicking here).
The Brazilian Short Film Show presents 13 productions from nine states in Brazil: Ceará, Minas Gerais , São Paulo, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte. It was curated by documentary filmmaker Vicente Ferraz.
The 31st Cine Ceará – Ibero-American Film Festival takes place from November 27th to December 3rd, present in Fortaleza (at Cineteatro São Luiz Fortaleza and Cinema do Dragão), in TV broadcasting on Canal Brasil and streaming on Globoplay. Keep in mind that there is still a lot of news out there…
Check out below for the full list of feature and short films respectively in the main competitive exhibitions of the 31st Cine Ceará:
And check out the complete list of selected films for all the 28th Vitória Film Festival Exhibitions:
25th National Short Film Competitive Show
Cabonagem and the Inevitable Fire (Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro and Roger Ghil, DOC, ES, 34′)Act (Bárbara Paz, FIC, MG, 21′)
Three Thanks (Luana Laux, FIC, ES, 19′)
Twenty Years ago (Tati Franklin, EXP, ES, 6′)
Invisible Bestiary
(Tati Rabelo and Rodrigo Linhales, DOC/EXP, ES, 12′)
Calm (Leonardo Catapreta, FIC, MG, 24′) *)Per Capita (Lia Letícia, FIC, PE, 15 ‘)
Fences/Cats (Sérgio Andrade, DOC, AM, 15′)
Plant – Desire Against the Industry of Fear (Amanda Seraphico, Clarissa Ribeiro and Lorran Dias, FIC, RJ, 16′)
The Rest (Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro, DOC, MG, 21′)
Fireflies (Léo Bittencourt, EXP, RJ, 19′)
Hawalari (Cassio Domingos, FIC, GO, 15′)
The Boat and the River (Bernardo Ale Abinader, FIC, AM, 17′)
Gargaú (Bruno Ribeiro, DOC, RJ, 20′)
Five Ribbons (Herald of God and Vilma Martins, FIC, BA, 15′ )
From time to time I burn (Carlos Segundo, FIC, MG, 15′)
Silver (Lucas Melo, EXP, RJ, 21′)
Portugal Small (Victor Quintanilha, FIC, RJ, 20′)
Precious Collection (Rayssa Coelho and Filipe Gama, DOC, BA, 15′)
Praia dos Tempos (Luan Santos, FIC, BA, 11′)
Muxarabi (Natália Maia and Samuel Brasileiro, DOC, CE, 18′)
My Saints Greet Your Saints
(Rodrigo Antônio, DOC, PA, 14′)
Childhood Scenes (Kimberly Palermo, ANI, RJ, 6′)
11th National Competitive Feature Film Show
Woman Ocean (Djin Sganzerla, FIC, RJ, 99′)
The Last City
(Victor Furtado, FIC, CE, 70′)
Mirador (Bruno Costa, FIC, PR, 95 ‘)
Lettuce Nights (Zeca Ferreira, FIC, RJ, 79′)
Desire Machine (Joaquim Castro and Lucas Weglinski, DOC, SP, 110′)
The Same Part of a Man (Ana Johann, FIC, PR, 99′)
11th Mostra Four Seasons
Cacicus (Bruno Cabral and Gabriela Dullius, FIC, RS, 14′)
Letícia, Monte Bonito, 04 (Julia Regis, FIC, RS, 19′)
Ariadne’s Thread (Mozart Freire and Ton Martins, FIC, CE, 16′)
Time de Dois (André Santos, FIC, RN, 11′)
The Birth of Helena (Rodrigo Almeida, EXP, RN, 11′) *)Male Meat (George Pedrosa, EXP, MA, 15 ‘)
My Battery Is Running Out and It’s Getting Late (Rubiane Maia and Tom Nóbrega, DOC EXP, ES/SP, 27′)
The Last Romantics in the World (Henrique Arruda, FIC, PE, 23′)
Mormaço (Carol Lima DOC, PE, 11′)
Atlantis
(Diego Locatelli, EXP, SP, 4′)
Present Wonder (Jeã Santos, EXP, RJ, 3 ‘)
There is a Prophet in Olaias, Take Care! (Lucas Camargo de Barros, DOC, SP, 8′)
All the Faces I Love Are Alike (Davi Mello and Deborah Perrota, FIC, MG, 14′)
House of a gaseous body (Bruno Moreno, FIC, PI, 5′)
A Night Without Moon (Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, DOC, ES, 27′)
Nostalgia (Raphael Araújo, ANI, ES, 1′)
Chimera (Luísa Costa Miranda, FIC , ES, 13′)
Concrete Metamorphosis
(Carol Covre, Larissa Barreto and Narjara Portugal, EXP, ES, 3′)
Absence (Ricardo Sá, DOC, ES, 19′)
Call to be collected (Edson Ferreira, FIC, ES, 20′)
8th Mostra Other Looks
1st Shift (Clementino Junior, FIC, RJ, 15′ )
Gold for the Good of Brazil (Gregory Baltz, DOC, RJ, 17′)
A Land to Step on (Fáuston da Silva, FIC, DF, 24′)
The Beauty of Rose (Natal Portela, FIC, CE, 20′ )
Utopia (Rayane Penha, DOC, AP, 15′)
The Ballad of the Noble Lady (Hsu Chien, FIC, RJ, 15′)
6th Mostra Women in Cinema
The Fish (Natasha Jascalevich, EXP, RJ, 11′)
I look forward to Our Independence Day
(Bruna Carvalho Almeida and Brunna Laboissière, DOC, SP, 21′)
In Case of Fire , Take the Elevator (Fernanda Reis, FIC, RS, 13′)
Out of Season (Laís Catalano Aranha and Drica Czech, FIC, SP, 13 ‘)
6th Mostra Cinema and Negritude
Waterfall Eyes (Adler Paz, FIC, BA, 22′)
Sometimes I’m Not There (Dandara de Morais, FIC, PE, 25′)
*)25 Years Without Asphalt (Fabi Andrade, FIC, SP , 15′)
Lining the Vastness
(Higor Gomes, FIC, MG, 15′)
5th National Video Clip Show
O Cara So de Jordada, by Matheus Fighera. Artist: Igor Fuchs – 3’12
Gross, by Raymundo Calumby. Artist: Sandyalê – 5’32”
Salomé, by Drica Czech and Laís Catalano Aranha. Artist: Naiá Camargo – 3’37”
Lockdown, by Rodrigo Herenio Franco. Artist: Heavy Load – 4’21”
Goat Talk. by Diego Capeletti. Artist: AXANT – 2’29”
Just call me, by Lucas Sá. Artist: Paolo Ravley – 4’24”
The Wolves Are Never Tired, by Thais Siqueira. Artist: Luana di Angelo – 2’28”
Are you Seeing Your Boy?, by Juliana Segovia and Pedro Brites. Artist: Karola Nunes – 4’42
Spix’s Macaw, by Letícia Pires. Artist: Isis Broken – 3’25”
Don’t Conserve Pain, by Eduardo Christofoli. Artist: Black Bell Tone – 5’58”
Come, by Flora Fiorio. Artist: Dan Abranches and Pe Lopes – 4’09”
Flowers and Rifles, by Raphael Correa. Artist: Gustavo Rosseb – 4’30
BXD Exists, by Pamela Ohnitram. Artist: Xuxu ComXis (feat. Adrielle Vieira & Tiago Tk) – 3’50”
Body a Corpo, by Jessika Goulart. Artist: Canto Cego – 4’39”
Dys-rhythm, by Thais Lima. Artist: Criolina, Estrela Leminski and Téo Ruiz – 5’02”
4th Mostra Nacional de Cinema Environmental
Nonna (Maria Augusta Vilalba Nunes, ANI/FIC, SC, 10′)
YAÕKWA – Image and memory (Rita Carelli and Vincent Carelli, DOC, PE, 21′)
Two Streams – Cocoa and Freedom (Fellipe Abreu and Patrícia Moll, DOC, BA, 10′)
Threatened Tapajós (Thomaz Pedro, DOC, SP, 25′)
What About Our Future? (Cláudio Cruz and Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos, DOC, Canada, 25′)
3rd Mostra On the Other Side – Fantastic Cinema
Floor Plan (Clara Martins Hermeto, FIC , SP, 15′)
Jamary
(Begê Muniz, FIC, AM, 15′)
Never Mais Me Vi (Demerson Souza and Laysla Brigatto, ANI, SP, 4′)
AR (Marcelo Oliveira and William Oliveira, FIC, PE, 10′ )
An Ivory Thorn (Luis Fernando Bruno, RJ, FIC, 20′)
Magnetic (Cassemiro Vitorino and Ilka Goldschmidt, DOC, SC, 25′)
4th Mostra Edge Cinema
Out of competition
Love Blood Pain (Magnum B orini, SP, FIC, 11′)
The Last Door (Milton Santos, UF, FIC, 20′)
Game of Ideas – Claudiney Ferreira interviews Seu Manoelzinho
Special Sessions
Out of competition
Special Opening Session
The Night Matter (Bernard Lessa, DOC, ES, 89′)
Threshold (Coraci Ruiz, DOC, SP, 77′)
Special Closing Session
I hope you are found and that you are well (Natara Ney, DOC, RJ/PE,84′ ).
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