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Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES Newsletter 3 Dear Friends! Our special guest this year will be Bruno Barreto, a Brazilian director, considered to be one of the best. He was nominated and awarded many times, e.g. Moscow International Film Festival 1973: nomination for the main award for “Tati”; Los Angeles Film Festival 1997: winner of the audience award for the best feature film “Four Days in September”; Berlinale 1997: nomination for the Golden Bear; nomination for the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film; Gramado Film Festival 1977: the winner of the Best Director award and nominated for the Best Film award for ‘Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands’. This year Bruno Barreto will be our guest in the first ‘Cinema Lesson. The confession of a filmmaker’. He made his first film “Tati” (1973) when he was 18 years old. Four years later he set the world on fire with his “Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands’. The main heroine, Dona Flor (played by Sonia Braga) is struggling between passionate memories of her first husband, a profligate Valdinho, and the life with stable Teodoro, when she is visited by Valdinho’s ghost on the first anniversary of his death. The music in this film was composed by Francis Hime, who is also our guest this year, so the film will be screened in “Music, My Love” section. We will also present “Gabriela” (1983) with Marcello Mastroianni and Sonia Braga (music composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim, an eminent bossa nova composer, who will be presented in the film “The House of Tom”) and “Last Stop 174” (a premiere, the opening film of 2008 International Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro). It’s a true story of the 2000 hijacking of a Rio de Janeiro bus with 11 people inside and the live TV broadcast of the crime committed by a 21-year-old homeless Sandro. Jose Padilha also inspired by this story made his “Bus 174” in 2002. After the premiere of his “ELITE” last year, FAF TWO RIVERSIDES will have a pleasure to screen for the first time in Poland another Padilha’s shocking documentary “Garapa”, which takes us to the world of chronic hunger. As Padilha says, the purpose of this film is to give the viewer a chance to understand the problem of hunger by meeting three families that are fighting with the lack of food and trying to survive. The title of the film refers to a mixture of sugar and water that is often the only nourishment that the children receive, the cheapest and a very calorific drink. The film is minimalistic in its form: 16 mm film stock, black and white, mono sound, no music. Only the most necessary measures are used. It’s like garapa, which provides only the minimum nutritive value. |