Elekô
A collage of poetic performances leading through an audio-visual experience of being a black woman.
6'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
'Pequena África', or 'Little Africa', is a place of cultural black resistance populated by freed enslaved between the 1850s and 1920s. It is the birthplace of samba. Nowadays this Brazilian region full of archaeological sites represents a living memory of slavery, which official history tried to erase even after abolition.
Also see Abolição, Alma no olho and Aniceto do Império em dia de alforria.
IFFR 2019
A collage of poetic performances leading through an audio-visual experience of being a black woman.
6'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
Film on black female protagonism in the Candomblé Jeje Mahi tradition; investigating its roots in Benin and its links to Brazil.
16'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
A compelling performative audiovisual essay on the diasporic experience of reconnecting with the African continent to retrieve cultural origins.
27'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
Triggered by an unveiled family secret, Aline Motta’s ancestral quest confronts the traditional paradigms about miscegenation related to racism in Brazil.
8'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
Programme IFFR 2019
Zózimo Bulbul’s legacy and the contemporary emergence of black Brazilian Cinema. With premiering films, a performance, talks and a masterclass by Gabriel Martins Alves.
Read more about this programmeBulbul made this powerful historical analysis of racial issues in Brazil in 1988, one hundred years after slavery was abolished there.
153'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
The process of transformation and empowerment of a young man, black and gay, whose account is mixed with testimonies of others.
15'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
A metaphor about slavery and the search for freedom through inner transformation, in a game of images inspired by concretism.
11'
Brazil
IFFR 2019