Directed by Fabio Meira
Fiction | 98min | 2023
Aunt Virgínia’s protagonist is a 70-year-old woman who never married or had children and, convinced by her sisters, moved to the city to take care of her parents. The film takes place in a single day, the day when Virginia prepares to receive the sisters Vanda and Valquíria who travel to celebrate Christmas.
Tia Virgínia
Fabio Meira
Fabio Meira, Janaina Diniz Guerra
Fiction
2023
Fabio Meira
Leonardo Feliciano
Ana Mara Abreu
Rô Nascimento
Marcos Freire
Karen Akerman, Virgínia Flores
Marcos Manna
Ruben Valdés
Damião Lopes
Cesar Camargo Mariano
Vera Holtz, Arlete Salles, Louise Cardoso, Vera Valdez, Antonio Pitanga, Daniela Fontan, Iuri Saraiva, Amanda Lyra
ROSEIRA, KINOSSAURUS
Born in Goiânia, Brazil, in 1979, Fabio Meira studied at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, in Cuba. Director and screenwriter, Meira started his career as an assistant to Ruy Guerra in the film “O Veneno da Madrugada” (2004). He directed short films, including “Dolores” (2005), “Atlântico” (2008) and “Hoje Tem Alegria” (2010), and the feature film “Two Irenes” (2017), presented in the Generation Kplus section at the Berlin International Film Festival. “Aunt Virginia” is his second feature film.
You can watch this film in-person. Check out the date, time, and place below.
Saturday, Nov 16th – 5PM
Check the Schedule for more information.
31 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
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.
Stories of SambaThis site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
Accept settingsHide notification only×We may request cookies to be set on your device. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website.
Click on the different category headings to find out more. You can also change some of your preferences. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer.
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features.
Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site.
We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain.
We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. You can check these in your browser security settings.
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience.
If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here:
We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Changes will take effect once you reload the page.
Google Webfont Settings:
Google Map Settings:
Google reCaptcha Settings:
Vimeo and Youtube video embeds:
You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page.
Privacy Policy
