CineFest Brasil NYC 2011

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Published on Friday, 10 June 2011 05:00

Written by L E Shannon

The 9th CineFest Petrobras Brasil - NYC Film Festival is being held June 12  - June 18, 2011 at Tribeca Cinemas in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

This official event of The Inffinito Festival Circuit is presented by international events and production company Inffinito, a valuable resource for introducing Brazil’s finest new films to US audiences. 

World cinema aficionados and neophytes alike will appreciate the diversity of style and topic as Cine Fest presents the best of the most recent Brazilian produced films in both long and short form.

Films presented at Cine Fest range from racy sex comedies and GLBT relevant dramas to magical realism explorations of life after death, coming-of-age stories, documentaries on Jimi Hendrix and the international drug trade, stop-motion animation and the new full-length release from the Silver Bear award-winning director Arnaldo Jabor.

Closing Night festivities are free to the public as part of the City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage in Central Park:

• announcement of the Crystal Lens Award winner
• a show by Brazilian Samba singer Mart‛nália
• the outdoor screening of Elza, directed by Izabel Jaguaribe and Ernesto Baldan, a documentary that explores the career and life of legendary musician Elza Soares

Documentary features include:

Hey Hendrix?
dir. Pedro Paulo Carneiro and Roberto Lamounier
A chronicle of Jimi Hendrix’s career in London, presenting details and unknown facts about the legendary guitarist who prematurely died in September of 1970 at the age of 27. The film also has testimonies by artists that lived around Hendrix or have been influenced by him, among them Brazilian musicians such as Pitty, Frejat, Pepeu Gomes, Robertinho de Recife, Davi Moraes and George Israel.

SmokeScreen
dir. Rodrigo Mac Niven
This film discusses drug policies in effect worldwide, focusing on their social and political implications in countries such as Brazil, particularly in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Physicians, researchers, leaders, policemen and representatives of civil movements share their opinions with journalist Mac Niven.

Sounds of the Exile
dir. Geneton Moraes Neto
Testimonies by Brazilian musicians Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jorge Mautner and Jards Macalé on a troublesome period in Brazil: the wave of arrests that followed the AI-5 decree by the military dictatorship in December 1968. Arrested in São Paulo and later transferred to Rio de Janeiro, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil eventually left Brazil to exile in London. Unknown stories are revealed, such as the show Gilberto Gil, captive, did in the barrack for the troops.

Narrative features include:

Boca
dir. Flavio Frederico
Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region of nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars, and drug dealers in downtown São Paulo of the 1950s). Hiroito was a well-born bohemian and at the age of 21 was accused of murdering his father. Hiroito was not indicted; however two months after his father’s death, he bought two guns, moved to Boca do Lixo and became one of the most dangerous criminals of the region.

The Supreme Happiness
dir. Arnaldo Jabor
A middle-class family searches for happiness in 1950s Rio de Janeiro in this coming-of-age story. Paulo grows from age 10 to 18 and discovers the wonders of love and sex, backed up by his strong friendship with his grandfather.

Head Over Heels
dir. Roberto Santucci
A romantic comedy that analyses the delights and difficulties of contemporary love life. Alice, wife and mother, is a woman who does too much until she suddenly loses her husband and her job. Stunned, Alice decides to change radically and embrace a unique opportunity: to become an executive of a sex shop. In this new erotic world, she transforms herself and rediscovers pleasure and the capacity to love.

For more information, go to www.brazilianfilmfestival.com/ny2011_en.html.

9th CineFest Petrobras Brasil - NYC Film Festival
June 12 - 19, 2011

The Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street
New York City

Central Park SummerStage
Rumsey Playfield
72nd Street & Fifth Avenue
New York City

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