Alma no olho
A metaphor about slavery and the search for freedom through inner transformation, in a game of images inspired by concretism.
11'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
We follow the daily lives of three young students at the University of São Paulo. They symbolise a first generation of black students that, thanks to the government's new education policy, are able to attend the best public universities in the country – places traditionally reserved for a white elite.
IFFR 2019
- 29'
- Brazil
- 2018
- Director
- Vinícius Silva
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Country of production
- Brazil
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 29'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- How Many of Us Were to Be Here?
- Language
- Portuguese
- Producer
- Vinícius Silva
- Production Company
- Studio L
- Sales
- Studio L
- Screenplay
- Bruno Ribeiro, Vinícius Silva
- Cinematography
- Caio Mazzilli
- Editor
- Jacqueline Almeida, Vinícius Silva
- Production Design
- Tatiane Sato
- Sound Design
- Ariel Henrique
- Cast
- Luiz Felipe Lucas, Dandara de Morais, Vinícius Silva
Also in this combined programme
Experimentando o vermelho em dilúvio
Michelle Mattiuzi’s ritual walk to the statue of slavery resistant leader Zumbi dos Palmares, downtown Rio de Janeiro.
8'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
KBELA
Visual essay as a form of resistance to invisibility, and an audiovisual experience about being and becoming a black woman.
22'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
Pattaki
Shrouded in moonlight and trapped by water scarcity, inhabitants are hypnotized by Yemaya, goddess of the sea.
21'
Cuba
IFFR 2019
- Director
- Vinícius Silva
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Country of production
- Brazil
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 29'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- How Many of Us Were to Be Here?
- Language
- Portuguese
- Producer
- Vinícius Silva
- Production Company
- Studio L
- Sales
- Studio L
- Screenplay
- Bruno Ribeiro, Vinícius Silva
- Cinematography
- Caio Mazzilli
- Editor
- Jacqueline Almeida, Vinícius Silva
- Production Design
- Tatiane Sato
- Sound Design
- Ariel Henrique
- Cast
- Luiz Felipe Lucas, Dandara de Morais, Vinícius Silva
Programme IFFR 2019
Soul in the Eye
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 programmeAbolição
Bulbul made this powerful historical analysis of racial issues in Brazil in 1988, one hundred years after slavery was abolished there.
153'
Brazil
IFFR 2019
Afronte
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
Alma no olho
A metaphor about slavery and the search for freedom through inner transformation, in a game of images inspired by concretism.
11'
Brazil
IFFR 2019