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Who Is Bárbara Virgínia?
Having only made one feature-length film and one short, Bárbara Virgínia was for decades a neglected figure in Portuguese film history.Published on: -
While I Write: Act III of The Desire Project
With the written word as the only visual element, Grada Kilomba gives a voice to an individual who has been historically silenced by colonial narrativPublished on: -
The Cleaners
Hidden behind thousands of monitors on the Philippines, there’s a shadow industry of digital cleaners who decide what the internet can show us aPublished on: -
Café com canela
Violeta lives in a Brazilian Bahia village full of striking characters. Everyone struggles with daily life, scarred by loss and mourning, yet allPublished on: -
Home Movie Excerpts from Cab Calloway on Tour in South America and the Caribbean
16 mm Kodachrome silent home movies mixed with audio excerpts taken from Cab Calloway’s personal acetate master recordings and his radio quiz shPublished on: -
Neville D’Almeida – Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
The career of Brazilian filmmaker Neville D’Almeida (Belo Horizonte, 1941) is full of ups and downs, scandals and successes, sex, drugs and rock &lsquPublished on: -
El hombre que cuida
Taciturn Juan tries to forget a lost love. Major tensions lurk beneath the otherwise placid surface of this sunny island drama.Published on: -
Azougue Nazaré
A feature debut, fresh and cheerful in tone, from the Brazilian state if Pernambuco, where IFFR finds so many beautiful films. Mysterious events and rPublished on: -
Good Manners
The nurse Clara gets a job as nanny for the rich and pregnant Ana, who suffers from insomnia. Her delivery at full moon ends fatally…Published on: -
Sultry
Rio de Janeiro, 2016: the city simmers in anticipation of the Olympic Games. Lawyer Ana (32) defends the interests of residents of homes to be rePublished on: