Today at BFI “South American Renaissance”: Lower City (Trailer)

Lower City
Sexy love-triangle drama, set amongst the hustlers, criminals and prostitutes of Brazil’s colourful port city Salvador.
18 Aug 20:45
22 Aug 16:00
29 Aug 20:40

Premiere Brazil! 2010 – Brazil Film Festival – Moma NY – Today: Prince Charming -

O príncipe encantado (Prince Charming)
2009. Brazil.
Directed by Sergio Machado, Fátima Toledo.
In Portuguese; English subtitles. 16 min.
Viajo por que preciso, volto por que te amo (I Travel because I Have To, I Come Back because I Love You)
Directed by Marcelo Gomes, Karim Aïnouz. With Irandhir Santos. A geologist ventures into the scrublands of northeastern Brazil’s Sertão region to ascertain possible routes for a new canal. The triumph of this inventive hybrid film is the organic yet poetic manner in which story and landscape crystallize the traveler’s past and present. In Portuguese; English subtitles. 75 min.

Thursday, July 22, 2010, 4:30 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.