Cycle
From 31.03. To 05.04.2014.
Brazilian contemporary film
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Films in cycle
If I Were You 2
(Se eu fosse você 2, 2009.)
Directed by: Daniel Filho
PHOTOGRAPHY: Nonato Estrela
Synopsis:
Although they are married, it seems that Cláudio is too busy and doesn't pay enough attention to his wife Helena any more. She is fed up and after a big argument throws him out of the house. With nowhere to go, he goes to his single friend Nelsinho. He then drags Cláudio to a night club where Helena sees him and jumps to the wrong conclusion that he is cheating on her. The next day Helena asks for a divorce. At the same time their daughter gets pregnant and tries to tell her parents the news......
color, digital, 98 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 01.04.2014 AT 19:00
Monday 31.03.2014 AT 19:30
The Man from the Future
(O homem do futuro, 2011.)
Directed by: Cláudio Torres
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ricardo Della Rosa
Synopsis:
Zero is a talented scientist who is bitter about a tragic night twenty years ago where he was humiliated and betrayed at a college party by Helena, the girl he was in love with. Working on a new energy source, he realizes that the reactor somehow opened a portal into the past. By returning to the exact time in the night he can't seem to forget, he is given an opportunity to change his past.
color, digital, 105 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 02.04.2014 AT 19:00
Tuesday 01.04.2014 AT 21:00
Cristina Wants to Get Married
(Cristina quer casar, 2003.)
Directed by: Luiz Villaça
PHOTOGRAPHY: Adrian Teijido
Synopsis:
Cristina is at the moment having a hard time in life - she is unemployed, has debts with huge interests and she is living in São Paulo with her widow mother. In her mid-thirties and without a partner, she decides to take a desperate step. She invests her last money and last hopes in a mediating agency for arranging marriages. She hopes to find a rich husband and that way solve her piling problems. She meets the nice and shy Paul, but Chico, the owner of the agency, also likes her…
color, digital, 104 min
PROJECTION:
Thursday 03.04.2014 AT 19:00
Wednesday 02.04.2014 AT 21:00
The Inheritance
(A partilha, 2001.)
Directed by: Daniel Filho
PHOTOGRAPHY: Félix Monti
Synopsis:
Four sisters meet again after a long time in Rio de Janeiro. Their mother passed away and they have to agree on how to split the inheritance. They are all very different and each one hides their problems and inner pains. Lúcia doesn't have the best relationship with her son the musician, Laura is fighting her own sexual identity, the married Selma is attracted to the agent selling their mother's apartment, and we find out that her daughter is a member of a cult, and Regina is an independent woma...
color, digital, 96 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 04.04.2014 AT 19:00
Thursday 03.04.2014 AT 21:00
In Therapy
(Divã, 2009.)
Directed by: José Alvarenga Jr.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Nonato Estrela
Synopsis:
Mercedes is a married woman in her mid-forties and a mother of two. Her decision to start going to therapy out of curiosity will slowly, but definitely, change her life. Although she appears to have all the prerequisites for happiness, she will start questioning her marriage, professional achievements, her beauty and attraction. She divorces her husband and, persuaded by her friend, starts dating again. To prove to herself she is still desirable, she goes out with a younger man. The film has...