Soul in the Eye
Overview of films
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Cartuchos de Super Nintendo em Anéis de Saturno
Leon Reis | 19' | Brazil | International premiere
Faced with despair, Cecil blows on a Super Nintendo’s cartridge in his neighbourhood. His attempt to reboot the game of life. -
O dia de Jerusa
Viviane Ferreira | 21' | Brazil | None
Jerusa’s quiet and lonely days are suddenly disrupted by a visit of a young woman. -
Elekô
Coletivo Audiovisual Elekô | 6' | Brazil | None
A collage of poetic performances leading through an audio-visual experience of being a black woman. -
Eu, minha mãe e Wallace
Eduardo Carvalho, Marcos Carvalho | 22' | Brazil | International premiere
The story of a photo of a single mother, an absent father and a child shows the importance of a single image. -
Experimentando o vermelho em dilúvio
Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi | 8' | Brazil | International premiere
Michelle Mattiuzi’s ritual walk to the statue of slavery resistant leader Zumbi dos Palmares, downtown Rio de Janeiro. -
Ilha
Ary Rosa, Glenda Nicácio | 94' | Brazil | International premiere
Emmerson’s radical solution to get his film made, gradually gets out of hand. Frame narrative, playing with fiction and (cinematic) reality.&nbs -
KBELA
Yasmin Thayná | 22' | Brazil | None
Visual essay as a form of resistance to invisibility, and an audiovisual experience about being and becoming a black woman. -
Merê
Urânia Munzanzu | 16' | Brazil | European premiere
Film on black female protagonism in the Candomblé Jeje Mahi tradition; investigating its roots in Benin and its links to Brazil. -
My Friend Fela
Joel Zito Araújo | 94' | Brazil | World premiere
The complexity of musician Fela Kuti’s life unravelled through the eyes of his biographer and friend, the African-Cuban Carlos Moore. -
Nada
Gabriel Martins | 27' | Brazil | None
Bia, 18 years old and about to finish high school, faces other people’s expectations about her future. All Bia wants? Nothing. -
NoirBLUE – Déplacements d’une danse
Ana Pi | 27' | Brazil | International premiere
A compelling performative audiovisual essay on the diasporic experience of reconnecting with the African continent to retrieve cultural origins. -
Pattaki
Everlane Moraes | 21' | Cuba | World premiere
Shrouded in moonlight and trapped by water scarcity, inhabitants are hypnotized by Yemaya, goddess of the sea.