Premiere Brazil! 2010 – Brazil Film Festival – Moma NY – Today: Bye Bye Brasil -

Bye Bye Brasil
1979. France/Brazil/Argentina.
Directed by Carlos Diegues. With José Wilker, Betty Faria, Fábio Júnior.
A traveling sideshow made up of a magician, a strongman, and an exotic dancer stops in rural villages hoping to mesmerize the townspeople out of whatever money they may have. When a young accordionist becomes enamored of the show’s exotic dancer, he and his pregnant wife join the show as it sets off deeper into the country’s interior.
In Portuguese; English subtitles. 100 min.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1

Premiere Brazil! 2010 at Moma NY – Programme

Film Screenings & Events
Salve geral (Time of Fear)
2009. Brazil. Directed by Sergio Rezende. With Andrea Beltrão, Denise Weinberg, Lee Thalor. A recently widowed piano teacher is shocked when her only son is imprisoned for killing a young woman. Her situation goes from bad to worse when, desperate to free him, she becomes involved with the criminal organization behind a series of actions that threaten to turn São Paulo into a living hell.

Taipei Film Festival Lights the Fire of Brazil

The City in Focus of Taipei Film Festival (TaipeiFF) is Rio de Janeiro in Brazil this year. Therefore many selective films and filmmakers of Brazil are invited to Taipei, including the leading star, José WILKER, of Brazilian classic Bye Bye Brazil, the Director in Focus – Suzana AMARAL, and the director of From Beginning to End – Aluisio ABRANCHES. They will all attend TaipeiFF to meet the audience and talk about the Brazilian cinema.