The Gramado Festival begins the celebration of the 50th anniversary

The Gramado Festival, one of the most traditional film events in the country, begins its 50th edition this Friday (8/12), which will symbolically present 50 feature films and short films.

In competition for Kikito for the best national feature film there are titles by famous directors, who will make their national premiere in the Serra gaúcha.

Among them is the new film by Cristiano Burlan (director of “Antes do Fim”), “A Mãe”, about a single mother who lives on the outskirts of São Paulo, returns home at night and cannot find her child. teenager. . She begins the search for her son, thereby threatening the tranquility of the local drug dealers.

The selection also includes “A Porta ao Lado”, a new work by Julia Rezende (from “Depois to Louca Sou Eu”). The film tells the story of a couple who start questioning their relationship after meeting neighbors who are in an open relationship.

Director Gabriel Martins (“O Nó do Diabo”) presents, with his film “Marte Um”, the story of a family who lives in the suburbs and tries to live their dreams in a country that has just elected a man who represents the opposite as president of all that I am.

Another film that relates to the current political reality is “O Pastor eo Guerrilheiro”, by José Eduardo Belmonte (“Alemão”). The plot follows the illegitimate daughter of a colonel who commits suicide. As she learns more about the man who didn’t recognize her as her daughter, she learns that he was a torturer during the military dictatorship in Brazil.

“O Pastor eo Guerrilheiro” can guarantee the second prize to Belmonte, already awarded in Gramado for the short film “Tepê” (2000).

From the far edge of the country, Acre’s film “Nights Aliens”, by director Sérgio de Carvalho (“Empate”). A work of magical realism, the film deals with the impact of the arrival of criminal factions from southeastern Brazil in the Amazon.

Gregório Graziosi’s new work (“Work”), titled “Tinnitus”, tells the story of an underwater athlete who suffers from a crisis of tinnitus (ringing in the ear) and falls off the diving board. Away from sport, she mistakes sport for a quiet life in an aquarium, where she works as a mermaid.

The only newcomer on the list is Angelo Defanti, from Rio de Janeiro, who wrote the detective miniseries “O Caso Evandro” and now makes his fiction directorial debut with “O Clube dos Anjos”, a combination of cooking and suspense based on the 1990s bestseller by Luis Fernando Verissimo.

Among the international feature films, “El Camino de Sol”, directed by Claudia Sainte-Luce (“La caja vacía”), about a mother who begins a frantic search to recover her kidnapped son, “The Last Animal” stands out. a Brazilian and Portuguese co-production directed by Leonel Vieira, whose first film, “A Sombra dos Abutres” (1998), was awarded in Gramado, and “Cuando Oscurece”, an Argentine / Uruguayan film directed by Néstor Mazzini (“Leave the Night Pay For It “), about a girl who believes she is on vacation with her father, but was actually kidnapped by him.

As part of a separate documentary exhibition, Gramado will also present “Ademã – A Vida e as Notas de Ibrahim Sued”, a new work by documentary maker Paulo Henrique Fontenelle, director of the acclaimed “Loki: Arnaldo Baptista” (2008), ” Dossiê Jango “(2013) and” Cassia Eller “(2014). Fontenelle signs the direction of this new film alongside Isabel Sued Perrin.

In addition to filming, there are also tributes to director Joel Zito Araújo, winner of the Gramado Festival in 2004 with “Filhas do Vento”, which will receive the Eduardo Abelin Trophy, and to actress Araci Esteves, winner of the Brasilia Festival in 1997. for “Anahy de las Misiones”, awarded with the City of Gramado Trophy.

Discover the complete list of selected films:

Brazilian feature films

“The mother” by Cristiano Burlan

“A Next Door” by Julia Rezende

“Mars One” by Gabriel Martins

“Alien Nights”, by Sérgio de Carvalho

“The Club of the Angels” by Angelo Defanti

“The shepherd and the guerrilla”, by José Eduardo Belmonte

“Tinnitus” by Gregorio Graziosi

foreign feature films

“9” (Uruguay / Argentina), by Martín Barrenechea and Nicolás Branca

“Cuando Oscurece” (Argentina / Uruguay), by Néstor Mazzini

“El Camino de Sol” (Mexico), by Claudia Sainte-Luce

“Immersion” (Chile), by Nicolas Postiglione

“La Boda de Rosa” (Spain / France), by Iciar Bollain

“La Pampa” (Peru / Chile / Spain), by Dorian Fernández Moris

“The Last Animal” (Portugal / Brazil), by Leonel Vieira

Gaucho feature films

“Empty House” by Giovani Borba

“Campo Grande is paradise”, by Bruna Giuliatti, Jhonatan Gomes and Sérgio Guidoux

“Farewell”, by Luciana Mazeto and Vinícius Lope

“Don Never Raised – Unpublished Dog”, by Bruno de Oliveira

“5 Case”, by Bruno Gularte Barreto

Documentaries

“A place to call mine”, by Kelly Cristina Spinelli

“Ademã – The life and notes of Ibrahim sued”, by Isabel Sued Perrin and Paulo Henrique Fontenelle

“Elton Medeiros – The sun will rise”, by Pedro Murad

“I Native” by Ulisses Rocha

“Destiny is in the origin”, by Pedro de Castro Guimarães

Brazilian short films

“Benzedeira”, by Pedro Olaia and San Marcelo

“God does not go away”, by Marçal Vianna

“Neon Phantom” by Leonardo Martinelli

“Fridge Magnet”, by Carolen Meneses and Sidjonathas Araújo

“But I’m not somebody”, by Gabriel Duarte and Daniel Eduardo

“The Paint Element”, by Luiz Maudonnet and Iuri Salles

“The end of the image”, by Gil Baroni

“L’Anatra” by Antonio Galdino

“Serrao”, by Marcelo Lin

“Help” by Susanna Lira

“Last Sunday”, by Joana Claude and Renan Barbosa Brandão

“A time for me” by Paola Mallmann

“Solitude”, by Tami Martins and Aron Miranda

“Tekoha” by Carlos Adriano

Gaucho shorts

“The Difference Between Mongols and Mongoloids” by Jonathan Rubert

“Just for the record” by Valentina Ritter Hickmann

“Drapo A”, by Alix Georges and Henrique Lahude

“Spark”, by Jessica Menzel and Jp Siliprandi

“Johann and the fridge magnets” by Giordano Gio

“The embrace” by Gabriel Motta

“The dawn”, by Leonardo da Rosa and Gianluca Cozza

“Mby’a Nhendu”, by Gerson Karaí Gomes

“Mora” by Sissi Betina Venturin

“Nação Preta do Sul – The short”, by Nando Ramoz and Gabriela Barenho

“We Who Run It”, by Lucas Furtado

“I take care of myself”, by Marcos Contreras

“Perfection”, by Guilherme G. Pacheco

“May Poder”, by Victor Di Marco and Márcio Picoli

“Warning sign Lory F” by Fredericco Restori

“Symptomatic” by Marina Pitato

“Everything seems to be in constant motion”, by Cristine de Bem and Canto

Source: Terra

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