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Sangria

Paula Sangria, a woman on the run after murdering her husband meets Agnes, a foreigner seeking disappearance and erotic annihilation, as they wander through a fictional winter city inhabited by grotesque figures, sexual repression and moral decay. While their relationship oscillates between desire, exploitation and violence, a disturbed sensationalist journalist obsessively stalks them, projecting his fetishes onto their bodies and crimes. What unfolds is a fragmented odyssey through a corrupt territory where intimacy becomes spectacle and survival itself turns obscene.

Sangria

NR N/A
The Winter of Zeljka

A silent, black-and-white train journey through Eastern European winter landscapes takes a man to a Croatian village. An arrival in the cinematic tradition of 1920s avantgarde, with the railway and industrial modernity as a favourite graphical motif, which takes him past a fish market and a strange procession, and finally home to a small family, where the grandparents drink tea, smoke cigarettes and chat cheerfully. The image of a young woman burns itself onto the celluloid - and into the filmmaker's consciousness.

The Winter of Zeljka

NR 2013
Hunger for Love

An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and its protests, Hunger for Love uses a rigorously abstract soundtrack and narrative structure to evoke the acute paranoia of the period building up to the December 1968 military coup that tipped Brazil perilously close to a conservative dictatorship. With its harsh critique of the decadent tendencies of the Sixties counterculture, Hunger for Love offers a key expression of the self-consciously “ideological” phase of Cinema Novo. -Harvard Film Archive

Hunger for Love

5.1 1968
Me Entedie Mais

In an event hall, Parvati rehearses a choreography for her 16th birthday. She does not agree with the party, but ends up giving in to pressure from her mother, who has always dreamed of this moment. Dândi works in this salon, doing general service jobs. The two meet by accident in the cellar, when Parvati is running away from all the futility of her party and Dândi is resting from kitchen work. They end up recognizing in each other the same contempt for all the artificiality that surrounds them, finding music as a way to escape that reality.

Me Entedie Mais

NR 2019
Brazil's Maria Bethânia

This is a journey of friendship, an Argentinian is going to rediscover his continent while searching for his friend from Bahia. And while the work, the records and the career of this great lady of Brazilian music are well known, the starting point, the training, the first years remained till now in a vaguely legendary and imprecise blur. Thanks to many investigations that concern as many places as times, thanks to journeys back in time through the towns and regions, the film seeks the origins of Maria Bethânia’s voice and style. Helped and led by Bethânia herself, with the assistance of Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque, the two princes of Brazilian music, along with the complicity of the great Gilberto Gil, the author is allowed to go to the first context : the North-East. In the family home in Santo Amaro, the film finally touches the childhood of Maria Bethânia – and her brother Caetano, and this mysterious point – from which the music radiates.

Brazil's Maria Bethânia

NR 2001