Brazilian Movie Month at Muvikali
The Embassy of Brazil in Dar es Salaam, in partnership with Alliance Française and Goethe Institute, is organizing the sixth edition of the Brazilian Movie Month. The event has the support of Guimarães Rosa Institute, which promotes Brazilian culture and the Portuguese language abroad and educational cooperation with other countries.
The movie festival, which will take place every Monday of November 2023, during Muvikali, the weekly film event promoted by Alliance and Goethe, will showcase some of the most awarded Brazilian films of recent years. The films include renowned Brazilian directors and actors, such as Kleber Mendonça Filho, Karim Aïnouz, Sônia Braga, Fernanda Montenegro, Carol Duarte, Wagner Moura and Seu Jorge, among others.
On Monday 6th, the festival will be inaugurated at Alliance with Aquarius (2016), by Kleber Mendonça Filho. The movie stars Sônia Braga, who plays Clara, a retired journalist and writer who lives facing the sea in Aquarius, the last old-style building on Boa Viagem Avenue in Recife. A widow with three grown-up children and the owner of a cozy apartment full of records and books, she will face the onslaught of a construction company that has other plans for the land. Co-produced by France, Aquarius won Best Movie awards in several festivals, such as Sidney, Mar del Plata, Havana and Amsterdam. Kleber Mendonça Filho is from Recife, Pernambuco, and his other award-winning films include Bacurau (2019) and O Som ao Redor (2012).
On Monday 13th, at Goethe, the film The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (2019) will be shown, by Karim Aïnouz. Based on the novel of Martha Batalha, the movie portrays two sisters (Eurídice and Guida) in the conservative household of the Gusmão family, in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s. When Guida elopes and then returns, pregnant and single, Manuel brutally banishes her from home and keeps the now married Euridice in the dark about her sister’s whereabouts. A German co-production, the movie won the Un Certain Regard Prize, at the Cannes Festival, among other awards. Karim Aïnouz is from Fortaleza, Ceará, and has also directed Madame Satã (2002) and Praia do Futuro (2014).
On Monday 20th, at Alliance, the Festival will present Fogaréu (2022), by Flávia Neves. On the frontier between the real and the fantastic, colonial times and the overwhelming modernity of agribusiness, the town of Goiás, in the Center-West region of Brazil, is the stage where the young Fernanda is faced with secrets about her past. Following the death of her foster mother, she goes back to her wealthy uncle's house to implode certainties and let the painful truth about her origins surface. A French co-production, Fogaréu is the first movie of Flávia Neves, who is from Goiás.
On Monday 27th, Marighella (2019) will be screened. Based on the biography “Marighella: The Guerrilla Fighter that Set the World on Fire”, it portrays the revolutionary leader, declared Brazil’s public enemy number one, that chose to fight the military dictatorship in power. Alongside guerrilleros 30 years younger than him, Marighella opts for action – all the while trying to keep the promise of reuniting with his son, whom he distanced himself from to keep him out of danger. The film won the Brazilian Cinema Grand Prize. Marighella is the first film by Wagner Moura, from Salvador, Bahia, who has an established career as an actor.