TONIGHT
02.11.08
Brazil Studies Program / Harvard Brazilian Organization Film Series
O Caminho das Nuvens (2003)
Directed by Vicente Amorim
Synopsis:
Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny
drawing him
on an odyssey to Rio de
Janeiro
in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000
miles
across the hinterlands of Brazil
on bicycles. Along the way, the story explores the inner dynamics of a
family
facing a great challenge with the courage to pursue dreams
Monday, February 11 – 6:00 to 9:00 PM - Tsai Auditorium (CGIS)
FEBRUARY
02.13.08
"Brazil - U.S. Relations: The Bilateral, Regional and Global Agendas"
Special Event with:
Ambassador Antonio Patriota, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States.
Chaired by Kenneth Maxwell, Director, Brazil Studies Program, Harvard
University.
Wednesday, February 13 - 12:30 to 2:00 PM - DRCLAS, CGIS S-050
02.25.08
Brazil Studies Program / Harvard Brazilian Organization Film Series
Edifício Master (2002)
Directed by Eduardo Coutinho
Monday, February 25 – 6:00 to 9:00 PM - Tsai Auditorium (CGIS)
Synopsis:
For one week, Eduardo Coutinho and his team talked to 27 residents in
an enormous building in Copacabana. Amongst these are a middle-aged
couple who met through the classified ads in a newspaper, a call-girl
who keeps her daughter and her sister, a retired actor, an ex-football
player, and a janitor who suspects that his adopted father, whom he
dreams about every night, is his real father. The subject of this
documentary is private life in the big city, apartments as a last
stronghold of individuality, in addition to emphasizing the fact that
to live together in one and the same place does not ensure that a
community will be formed.
MARCH
03.10.08
Brazil Studies Program / Harvard Brazilian Organization Film Series
Favela Rising (2005)
Directed by Matt Mochary and Jeff Zimbalist
Monday, March 10 – 6:00 to 9:00 PM - Tsai Auditorium (CGIS)
Synopsis:
Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a
favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders
of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former
drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most
feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and
Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent
oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt
police. At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is
overcoming all odds and Anderson’s grassroots Afro Reggae movement is
at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence
the movement forever.
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Marcio Siwi
Fellow / Program Officer
Brazil Studies Program
Harvard University
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel (617) 495-5435
http://drclas.harvard.edu/brazil