São Paulo – Brazilian films are included in the 3rd Ibero-American Film Festival, running from the 1st to 9th of November in Beirut, Lebanon. Two productions from Brazil have been already screened and a third one, the documentary Oscar Niemeyer: a vida é um sopro (Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a breath of air) will be shown next Wednesday (7th), according to the program published on the website of the Cervantes Institute, which is promoting the event alongside Cinema Metropolis Empire-Sofil.
Brazilian film Capitães da Areia (Captains of the Sands) was seen by approximately 250 people last Friday (2nd), according to Najua Bazzi, director of the Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Centre, an organization created by the Brazilian embassy to Beirut. The embassy, by means of its charges d’affaires Frank Almeida de Sousa, was responsible for two of the Brazilian films in the festival – Capitães da Areia and Oscar Niemeyer: A vida é um sopro.
Capitães da Areia portrays the lives of street kids in 1950s Bahia, and was a tribute to the centennial of writer Jorge Amado. The film is an adaptation of Amado’s book and was released in 2011, directed by Cecilia Amado. The film on Oscar Niemeyer is a documentary on the life of the architect. The other Brazilian film is A Selva (The Forest), a 2002 Brazilian, Spanish and Portuguese production about a young Spaniard working in the Amazon. The film was included in the festival through a Portuguese initiative.
Service
3rd Ibero-American Film Festival
November 1st to 9th
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Cinema Metropolis Empire-Sofil – Beirut
Program and information:
http://beirut.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha78744_09_1.htm
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
