SCHEDULE
Here is the schedule of MOSTRA XIII. You can navigate through each day.
Nov 2nd
5:30 PM – Reception
6:30 PM – Film “Doctor Gama”
8:00 PM – Q&A with Luciano Salim (Exec Producer)
DOCTOR GAMA
- Cervantes Institute
31 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
- Synopsis
‘Doctor Gama’ is based on the life of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history. A black man who used the law and the courts to free over 500 slaves. Born a free man, Gama was sold as a slave at the age of 10 as payment for his father’s debts. Even as a slave, he learned to read and write, studied and then gained his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. He was an abolitionist and a republican who inspired an entire nation.
THE LAST FOREST
- Nov 3rd
5:30 PM – Documentary “The Last Forest”
7:00 PM – Q&A with Luiz Bolognesi, Director
7:30 PM – Reception - University of Chicago
Social Science Research Building, Room 122, 1126 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
- Synopsis
In an isolated Yanomami land in the Amazon, the shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomani tries to keep the spirits of the forest and the traditions alive, while the arrival of gold prospectors brings death and destruction to the community. Young folks are charmed by the goods brought by the white; and Ehuana, who sees her husband disappear, tries to understand what happened in her dreams.
THE REPENTANTS
- Nov 4th
5:30 PM – Snacks
6:00 PM – “The Repentants”, Directors, Ricardo Calil & Armando Antenore
8:00 PM – Q&A with Bruno Tavares, Film Critic - DePaul University
14 East Jackson, Room 214 (Second Floor) – Also an entrance on 247 South State Street.
- Synopsis
In 1970, at the height of the military dictatorship in Brazil, five detained guerrilla fighters came out in public to disavow the armed struggle and praise the regime. Such was the repercussion of their declarations that the government decided to make revolutionary retractions a strategy of the State. Members of the resistance were tortured into publicly issuing a mea culpa, and by 1975, roughly forty former regime opponents had taken part in these “repudiations.” The Repentants tells the seldom-remembered story of former militants who embarked on the cause at a very young age only to be arrested, tortured, and converted into a propaganda tool for their enemies.
BOB SPIT – WE DO NOT LIKE PEOPLE
- Nov 5th
2:00 PM – Short Fictions Session
3:30 PM – Snacks
4:00 PM – Feature Fiction (Animation) – “Bob Spit – We do Not Like People”, Cesar Cabral (Director)
5:30 PM – Q&A with Bruno Tavares, Film Critic - DePaul University
14 East Jackson, Room 214 (Second Floor) – Also an entrance on 247 South State Street.
- Synopsis
Bob Spit, a comic book character, lives in a post-apocalyptic desert inside the mind of his creator, the legendary Brazilian cartoonist Angeli. When Angeli decides to kill off Bob, the old punk leaves this wasteland and faces his creator.
JAIR RODRIGUES – LET THEM TALK
- Nov 6th
3:30 PM – Snacks
4:00 PM – “Jair Rodrigues – Let Them Talk” (documentary), Rubens Rewald (Director)
5:30 PM – Q&A with Rubens Rewald, Director - The New 400 Theater
6746 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
- Synopsis
The story of Jair Rodrigues, one of the most brilliant and influential Brazilian singers. With an open smile and unique versatility, he sang samba, MPB, rap, country and made a revolution on the stages, with his anarchic and irreverent performances. Jair Rodrigues makes us dream about a nostalgic portrait of Brazil, a country marked by the simplicity, joy and optimism of its people. Where did this Brazil go? Is it possible to find it again?
ROLÊ – STORIES OF BRAZILIAN PROTESTS IN MALLS
- Nov 7th
5:30 PM – Snacks
6:00 PM – Feature Film ”Rolê – Stories of Brazilian Protests in Malls” Vladimir Seixas (Director)
7:30 PM – Q&A with Director Vladimir Seixa - Loyola University
Dumbach Hall, Room 006, Lakeshore Campus, Loyola University Chicago
- Synopsis
Protests against the violence of security guards and shopping mall employees in Brazil have mobilized thousands of people in recent years. This form of protest showed the barriers imposed by racial discrimination and social exclusion. Follow in this documentary the lives and memories of three black characters that went through traumatic racism situations and took part in the protests which recently took place in shopping malls. Discover the dreams, beauty, poetry, art and politics of a generation that has found new ways of dealing with violence by promoting an intense debate across Brazil about how black lives matter.
PIXINGUINHA – AN AFFECTIONATE MAN
- Nov 8th
5:30 PM – Reception
6:00 PM – Feature Film “Pixinguinha – An Affectionate Man”
7:30 PM – Q&A with Phydias Barbosa, Agent. - Northwestern University
Harris Hall Bldg., Room 107, 1801 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208 (Parking available for free after 4 PM)
- Synopsis
Pixinguinha is the nickname of Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Jr. (1897-1973), considered the father of Brazilian Popular Music (aka Brazilian Jazz). A misunderstood genius, whose importance was only recognized many years later, propelled by other geniuses like Tom Jobim and João Gilberto. His masterpiece “Carinhoso” (Affectionate) is the most recorded Brazilian song of all times.
JAIR RODRIGUES – LET THEM TALK
- Nov 9th
5:30 PM – Reception
6:00 PM – Short Film “Body and Memories: Fragments in Dance (Uirapuru)”, Directed by Rubielson Medeiros
6:00 PM – Documentary “Jair Rodrigues – Let Them Talk”
7:30 PM – Q&A with Director Rubens Rewald - Indianapolis IUPUI
University Library Lilly Auditorium – 755 W Michigan St, Indianapolis
- Synopsis
The story of Jair Rodrigues, one of the most brilliant and influential Brazilian singers. With an open smile and unique versatility, he sang samba, MPB, rap, country and made a revolution on the stages, with his anarchic and irreverent performances. Jair Rodrigues makes us dream about a nostalgic portrait of Brazil, a country marked by the simplicity, joy and optimism of its people. Where did this Brazil go? Is it possible to find it again?
TRANSVERSAL
- Nov 10th
3:00 PM – Workshop: Brazilian Cinema with Film Critic Bruno Tavares
5:00 PM – Documentary “Transversal”, Émerson Maranhão, Director
6:30 PM – Q&A with Film Critic, Bruno Tavares - Purdue University
Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, Room 2102, 915 N. State St., West Lafayette, IN 47907
- Synopsis
Érikah is a teacher, Samilla is a civil servant. Caio José is a paramedic, Kaio Lemos is an academic researcher. Mara is a journalist and the mother of a teenager. The five of them have different origins, backgrounds, and social classes. What they have in common is the fact that their lives have been crossed by transsexuality.
PEDRO, BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
- Nov 10th
7:00 PM – “Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”, Laís Bodanzky, Director
8:30 PM – Q&A with Laís Bodanzky, Director - Purdue University
Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, Room 2102, 915 N. State St., West Lafayette, IN 47907
- Synopsis
It is 1831 and Pedro, the former emperor of Brazil, gathers physical and emotional strength to face his brother, who usurped his kingdom in Portugal. The film is set on the Atlantic Ocean, aboard an English frigate, in which members of the court, officers, servants and slaves minglein a babel of languages and social positions. Pedro finds himself sick and insecure. He enters the ship in search of a place and a homeland. In search of himself.
PEDRO, BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
- Nov 11th
2:00 PM – Short Documentaries Session
3:30 PM – Q&A with Bruno Tavares, Film Critic
4:00 PM – Feature Film – “Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”
5:30 PM – Q&A with Director Laís Bodanzky - University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
University Hall, room 1501 (15th floor), 601 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607
- Synopsis
It is 1831 and Pedro, the former emperor of Brazil, gathers physical and emotional strength to face his brother, who usurped his kingdom in Portugal. The film is set on the Atlantic Ocean, aboard an English frigate, in which members of the court, officers, servants and slaves minglein a babel of languages and social positions. Pedro finds himself sick and insecure. He enters the ship in search of a place and a homeland. In search of himself.
TRANSVERSAL
- Nov 10th
5:30 PM – Documentary “Transversal” (LGBT)
7PM – Q&A with Bruno Tavares, Film Critic - Cervantes Institute
31 W Ohio St., Chicago, IL 60654
- Synopsis
Érikah is a teacher, Samilla is a civil servant. Caio José is a paramedic, Kaio Lemos is an academic researcher. Mara is a journalist and the mother of a teenager. The five of them have different origins, backgrounds, and social classes. What they have in common is the fact that their lives have been crossed by transsexuality.
EXECUTIVE ORDER
- Nov 12th
5:00 PM – Reception
6:00 PM – Program and Presentation of MOSTRA XIII Trophy 2022
6:00 PM – Short Film “Body and Memories: Fragments in Dance (Uirapuru)”, Directed by Rubielson Medeiros
6:30 PM – Documentary “Executive Order” Director Lázaro Ramos, Recipient of MOSTRA XIII TROPHY – 2022
8:00 PM – Q&A with Aldri Anunciação, Screenwriter - Cervantes Institute
31 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
- Synopsis
In a dystopian near future in Brazil, an authoritarian government orders all citizens of African descent to move to Africa – creating chaos, protests, and an underground resistance movement that inspires the nation.
About us
MOSTRA is the largest Brazilian film festival in the midwest. The annual event’s motto is “Brazilian Films with Social Conscience,” and it has as its venues many educational and cultural institutions in the greater Chicago area and cities in the midwest. Founded by Ariani Friedl in 2010.