Into the Void: Brazilian Short Films - Edinburgh
This programme showcases a selection of contemporary Brazilian short films that reflect the country’s rich filmmaking talent and its political (and poetic) resistance.
About Into the Void: Brazilian Short Films - Edinburgh
| 31st May 2025 | |
| 7.30pm | |
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St Peters Scottish Episcopal Church Edinburgh 14 Lutton Place, Edinburgh South EH8 9PE |
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| £10 | |
| Event organiser/part of Latin Connections Film Festival | |
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Latin Connections Film Festival in association with Brasil: A Slow Film Festival presents:
INTO THE VOID: COLLECTIVE DREAMS IN BRAZILIAN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA
This programme showcases a selection of contemporary Brazilian short films that reflect the country’s rich filmmaking talent and its political (and poetic) resistance, particularly during the years of the Bolsonaro presidency. These films, awarded at prestigious festivals like Locarno, Berlinale, and Cannes, delve into powerful themes of physicality, nature, transformation, and exploitation. They explore the strength of human bodies when they come together, and the profound impact of collective action to, why not, imagine a new world. The human body, perhaps the very foundation upon which capitalism is built, often goes unnoticed in its potential to create change when we move in harmony. Beautiful, complex, dissident bodies.
This is a programme that will take you from pure laughter to pure emotion, dare we say, tears. Featuring intimate, deeply humanist character studies, innovative glass-painted animations, and formally daring films that incorporate Amazonian myths and ghosts, it offers a unique space for contemplating identity, culture clash, migration, and the potential of connection-making in an ultra-capitalist era: all garnished, by the way, with some incredible music scores and beats.
At its heart, the programme is a tender yet defiant reminder of the power of human connection in the face of overwhelming challenges. It calls for an anti-capitalist reevaluation of our relationship with nature, and the ways in which we are (dis)connected from it, from the bustling streets of major cities to the deep recesses of the Earth.
A journey that takes you from hyper-urban spaces like Rio or São Paulo, to the Amazon jungle, to the outer cosmos, and to the core of the Earth. Are you ready? Fasten your seatbelts.
QUEBRANTE
Janaina Wagner / 21 min / 2024 / Brazil.
A spell breaking, Quebrante traverses the caves, ruins and phantasmagorias of the Transamazon BR-230 Highway, portraying its stones and its ghosts.
A MENINA E O POTE (The Girl and The Pot)
Valentina Homem / 12 min / 2024 / Brazil.
In a dystopian world, a girl breaks her ceramic pot, which holds a secret within. The breaking of the pot opens portals to a parallel universe and the girl enters a time of transformation in which the creation of a new world is finally possible.
AMARELA (Yellow)
Andre Hayato Saito / 15 min / 2024 / Brazil.
On the day of the World Cup final between Brazil and France, Erika Oguihara, a Japanese-Brazilian teenager who rejects her family’s traditions, experiences a violence that seems invisible and plunges into a painful sea of emotions.
PASSÁRO MEMÓRIA (A Bird Called Memory)
Leonardo Martinelli / 15 min / 2023 / Brazil – UK.
A bird called Memory has forgotten how to come back home. Lua, a trans woman, searches for Memory in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, but the city can be a hostile place.
BIG BANG
Carlos Segundo
14’ / 2022 / Brasil
Uberlândia, Brazil. Chico earns his living fixing ovens, in which he easily fits into thanks to his small size. Disregarded and marginalized by a society that hates him, Chico begins to resist.
Accessibility
This event is wheelchair accessible and contains descriptive subtitling.This transcribes both dialogue and key sounds from the film, such as [whistle blowing] or [crowd cheering]
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