A Copa do Mundo no Recife
In Recife, home town of football legend Rivaldo, almost everyone is crazy about football. As it is overrun by the 2014 World Cup, it also faces enormous social problems and poverty. A fascinating insight into events by inhabitant and filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho.
Also in this combined programme
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Giants
The youth of Rotterdam and their role models, parents, and guardians… otherwise known as giants. IFFR project with A View with a Room. -
Playground
American football is played on rectangular fields, 120 yds long and 160 ft wide. A battle between nature and culture, between organic grass and artifi -
The Day After
The death of a poet. Everything has been documented. The loss must be enormous, but restraint is demonstrated. With a legendary actress in the lead… -
Crowds
This rousing video shows the essence of crowd mentality, the fury and the ecstasy; the visceral thrill of being part of something bigger than yourself. -
Waiting for News
Only a boy from Papua could hang from a climbing frame like this. He’s elated because his big brother Hans called. Elegant glimpse of real… -
Quantum.
Spotlighting this small Italian mountain village brings a variety of hidden activities to light. -
Angelus Novus
Afghan Ali has just arrived in Turkey where he has to start a new life surrounded by other refugees. -
Goodbye Utopia
Short yet grand animation symbolically depicts the rise and tragedy of various utopias in nine tableaus.
Film details
- Country of production
- Brazil
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 14'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
