7th BRAFFTV – Oct 16 – Oct 20 – The Worlds Largest Celebration of Brazilian Cinema Outside Brazil! (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
The best of Brazilian Cinematography, will be for the seventh time celebrated in the land of film festivals. Southern Mirrors and Puente are proud to present the 2013 edition of [highlight]BRAFFTV – Brazilian Film and TV Festival of Toronto[/highlight].
Brazil is living an exciting moment in its history hosting the two biggest sport events in the world, the 2014 World Cup and the Olympic Games in 2016. Films are the best way to explore Brazil’s vast territory, to discover Brazilian culture and to catch up with its language and current affairs.
(PHOTO: Barbara de la Fuente, Cecilia Queiroz & Denise Jancar).
This year’s five-day festival showcases a vibrant line-up of more than 40 films among features, documentaries, animation and shorts with the best recent Brazilian film productions from all genres including drama, comedy, documentary, thriller, children, and ethnographic films.
The opening screening on October 16th will be held at TIFF Bell Lightbox and will present the Canadian premiere of thefeature The Invisible Collection by Bernard Attal and the short Environment of Freedom by Pedro Barbosa and Mariana Martins.
The Competitive Program continues at Carlton Cinema ([highlight]20 Carlton Street[/highlight]) from October 17th to October 20th with 32 films (14 features and 18 short/mid-length films) competing for the Golden Maple Award. The Festival closes with the North-American premiere of the documentary Meeting Sebastião Salgado directed by Betse de Paula depicting the life and work of one of the most celebrated photographers in the world, Sebastian Salgado.
For the first time a Film Festival will hold an Academic Conference at the University of Toronto. The conference, to be held on October 19th and 20th at Victoria College, aims to establish an annual meeting, in which a permanent dialogue is built between peers from several countries, promoting intellectual exchanges and sharing creative experiences while interacting with the events promoted during the festival. This year, the goal of the conference is to propose a broad debate, emphasizing the need to evaluate the increasing use of digital screens in contemporary society and how people and countries are dealing with their own image, identity and digital cultural space.
The first BRAFFTV International Film and Media Conference, in partnership with the University of Toronto and Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, received a large number of paper proposals offering varied and original approaches to the understanding of media and social engagement from scholars from all around the world. The conference program promises to be an exciting one!
A workshop for actors will be held on October 17th by Murilo Elbas (Elite Squad), experienced Brazilian actor and holistic therapist; Elbas combines techniques from both professions in a comprehensive approach to
body consciousness.
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BRAFFTV * Schedule * OPENING NIGHT at TIFF Bell Lightbox
Tickets $ 12.00
October 16th at 7pm
[checklist][/checklist]The Invisible Collection
Fiction / 89™ / 2012
Directed by: Bernard Attal
BRAFFTV™ opening film in 2013 is the award-winning drama, The Invisible Collection. It follows a young man named Beto, played by Vladimir Brichta, as he travels to rural Brazil in search of a rare art collection belonging to an eccentric ex-millionaire. During Betoâ travels, he learns about the subjectivity of beauty and the relativity of privilege. In doing so, he undergoes a personal transformation. The film offers the viewer a fresh perspective on life in Brazil and Bernard Attal’s extraordinary cinematography depicts the incredible beauty of the city of Salvador as well as the damaged forests of Brazil’s cocoa region. The themes of this film include the stark contrast between city life and country life, class differences in Brazil and the massive collapse of the country’s cocoa industry in the 1970s. Additionally, this film is the last work of renowned Brazilian actor Walmor Chagas.
Director Bernard Attal built this amazing story of richness and decay based on the documentary “The Magnificent”, winner of best documentary at BRAFFTV 2011. Canadian premiere.
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Environment of Freedom (Âmbito de Liberdade) screened with The Invisible Collection
Documentary / 1’10†/ 2013
Directed by Pedro Barbosa and Mariana Martins
A drawing teacher teaches that, in reality, the fear is fought with freedom. North American premiere.
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FILM PROGRAM AT CARLTON CINEMA
All films have English subtitles – Tickets $ 12.00 (Seniors/Students $10.00)
First Day of Any Year (Primeiro Dia de um Ano Qualquer)
Thursday, October 17th at 7 pm
Fiction / 81’ / 2012
Directed by Domingos Oliveira
First Day of Any Year is a touching and funny comedy, a panoramic film where the many characters are seeking a meaning for life. The movie begins at sunrise and ends with the last ray of sun hiding behind the mountains during the first day of the year in a posh house on the outskirts of Rio. Many characters pass along, all in crisis, facing the most varied finitudes and limitations, ending by realizing: life goes on and the world will not end. The director Domingos de Oliveira is the narrator of the film and remind us Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen’s films. And, such as these two filmmakers Domingos de Oliveira prolific career as an author, director, actor, producer, singer, thinker – with more than one hundred and thirty titles extends from Theatre to Film and TV. His first film, All the Women of the World (1967) is considered the best Brazilian comedies of all times. North American premiere.
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[checklist][/checklist]They Killed My Brother (Mataram meu irmão)
Thursday, October 17th at 9 pm
Documentary / 77’ / 2013
Directed by: Cristiano Burlan
In 2001, on the night of October 5, Rafael Burlan was murdered with 7 shots in his back, in Capao Redondo, neighborhood of Sao Paulo. The documentary seeks to rebuild through reports from relatives and friends what was the murder and its consequences in the tragic fate of this family. North American premiere.
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[checklist][/checklist]Xapiri
Friday, October 19th at 5:30 pm
Documentary / 54’ / 2012
Directed by Leandro Lima and Gisela Motta
Xapiri is a yanomami word for shamans, as well the spiritual men (xapiri thëpë) as the auxiliary spirits (xapiri pë). It is an experimental film on yanomami shamanism recorded in the Watoricki village, Amazon, during two shamans’s meetings at the Watoriki Village in March 2011 and April 2012. The film takes into account two different concepts of image: the yanomami’s and ours. North American premiere.
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[checklist][/checklist]Cine Holliúdy
Friday, October 18th at 7 pm
Fiction / 100’ / 2012
Directed by: Halder Gomes
The massive arrival of television in the countryside of Brazil, in the ’70s, puts in jeopardy the small movie theaters businesses.
Francisgleydisson is the owner of Cine Holliudy, and he must be extremely creative to keep his passion for cinema alive. A Brazilian way of showing its passion for the 7Th art, even in the remotes areas. Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso and Fellini’s Amacord are close references to this current success of Brazilian cinema spoken in local slang. So far the film has only been screened in the state of Ceara, and has has more public than Titanic and other Hollywood blockbusters. A box office hit surprise and an homage to cinema lovers of B films. Canadian premiere.
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[checklist][/checklist]Margaret Mee and the Moonflower (Margaret Mee e a Flor da Lua)
Friday, October 18th at 7:30 pm
Documentary / 78′ / 2012
Directed by: Malu de Martino
Margaret Mee and the Moonflower is a documentary about the life and work of the botanical illustrator, Margaret Mee, a pioneer and a visionary, one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Through her diaries, interviews and narratives, the film reveals a tireless advocate for the preservation of Brazilian flora, whose love of nature and whose art provide a constant reminder of the need to preserve our environment. Canadian premiere.
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[checklist][/checklist]A Long Journey (Uma Longa Viagem)
Friday, October 18th at 9 pm
Documentary / 95’ / 2011
Directed by Lucia Murat
The awarded-winner documentarian Lucia Murat continues in this film to portray her struggles and fights against the military dictatorship in Brazil during the sixties and seventies. However, this time, she follows the long journey of her brother, Heitor, who was sent to London by his family, while she was incarcerated and tortured by the militaries. In London, Heitor dives head on into the “Swinging London” and, just like the European and American youth of the time period, he experiments the mystic allure of India and travels all over the world smuggling drugs and searching for a meaning to his life. Best Documentary in Malaga Festiva and Paulinia Festival, Best Film in Gramado Festival. North American premiere.
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[checklist][/checklist]Trust Me (Confia em Mim)
Fiction / 85’ / 2013
Friday, October 18th at 9:30 pm
Directed by: Michel Tikhomiroff
In the thriller Trust Me, Fernanda Machado (Elite Squad) plays Mari, a talented chef, who works hard to save money and open her own restaurant. Until the day she finds Caio, played by famous TV actor Mateus Solano. A charming investor, he comes up with the money for her dreams to come true. However, things are not always what they seem to be and they find themselves in the midst of lies, corruption, and theft. World premiere.
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[checklist][/checklist]Tainá – An Amazon Legend (Tainá – a Origem)
Saturday, October 19th at 3:30pm
Fiction / 83’ / 2011
Directed by: Rosane Svartman
Friendship, adventure and magic are the main ingredients of the feature Taina – an amazon legend. The film is 100% shot in the Amazon Rainforest, with strong and charming images of people and animals in their real environment. It tells the story of Tainá, a 5 years old orphan Indian girl who dreams of becoming a warrior and discovering her true origin. As a girl, Tainá shouldn’t fight. However, she has her mother’s heritage, who was the last of the Amazon’s lady warriors. With the help of Laurinha, a smart city girl, and GobÃ, a nerdy indian. They learn to overcome their mutual differences while going through their eventful journey. Taina confronts biopirates ancestral enemy of her family, Jurupari, the incarnation of Evil, who wants to destroy the Forest while revealing her origin’s mystery. Canadian premiere.
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[checklist][/checklist]Cheshire Cat – The Many Lives of José Lewgoy (Eu Eu Eu José Lewgoy)
Saturday, October 19th at 5pm
Documentary / 94’/ 2011
Directed by: Claudio Kahns
The film depicts the history of one of the most important actors of television and cinema while revealing one of the most egocentric, biting and fascinating characters of Brazilian culture. Jose Lewgoy, who studied drama at Yale, drew a respectful international career filming with the most celebrated filmmakers and actors of this generation. He went from independent French movies in the beginning of his career to Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, and many other productions for TV and theatres. Lewgoy travelled through decisive moments in the development of the Brazilian cultural movement. Very well documented with footages from all over the world, the narrative is conducted in a non-chronological sequence. His personal recordings unveil the dreams behind the persona, the sweet and sour sides. The movie shows decisive moments with interviews from friends, movie directors and professional colleagues (like Millôr Fernandes, Werner Herzog and Tônia Carrero). Canadian premiere.
Helio Oiticica
Saturday, October 19th at 5:30pm
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