The Council on Latin American Studies at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and the department of Spanish and Portuguese will host a festival of films from and about Brazil. The films, in Portuguese with English subtitles, will be shown on Thursdays at 7 p.m. in Rm. 211, Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. Admission is free, and the public is invited.
The schedule of films follows:
April 2 -- "O Amor Natural" ("Natural Love," 1996), directed by Heddy Honigmann. The film celebrates the work of popular poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, whose poems remained unpublished during his lifetime because of their erotic content. The film features elderly residents of Rio de Janeiro reading Drummond's poems and commenting on their imagery.
April 9 -- "The Dolphin" (1987), directed by Walter Lima Jr. This film is a mythic tale based on the folk legend of a dolphin who is transformed into a handsome young man when the moon is full.
April 16 -- "Foreign Land" (1995), directed by Walter Salles. When Fernando Collor, the first elected president in Brazil, proposed seizing all savings accounts, more than 800,000 young Brazilians emigrated in search of a better life abroad. This film tells the story of Paco and Alex, a young Brazilian man and woman who emigrate to Portugal where they learn the realities of life in another country.
April 23 -- "Taking Aim" (1993), directed by Monica Frota. This film chronicles changes in the Kayapo people of the Brazilian rain forest, who appropriate video technology as a political and cultural weapon.
For further information, contact the Council on Latin American Studies at 432-3422.
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