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Brazilian Films Unspooling in Panorama, Forum, the Berlin Co-production Market
THE SECOND MOTHER
Anna Muylaert, Panorama
Playing both Sundance and Berlin, “The Second Mother” has been picked up by the Match Factory. It stood out at Locarno’s Carte Blanche showcase and is produced by Gullane Filmes. A dramedy of manners — with Regina Case playing a nanny whose daughter arrives to take exams for Sao Paulo U.’s exclusive architecture school — it also tackles head-on one key to narrowing Brazil’s gross social gulfs: Access to top-notch education. “While prioritizing story and character, ‘The Second Mother’ talks maturely about deep social change in and outside Brazil,” says Fabiano Gullane.
BLUE BLOOD
Lirio Ferreira, Panorama opener
Given up at age 9 to the Neptuno Circus by his mother, Pedro returns 20 years later as Zolah the Cannon Man just as his sister is getting married. Sweeping October’s Rio Fest — best fiction feature, director, supporting actor (Romulo Braga) winner — “Blue Blood” is set on a stunning volcanic isle. “We went to the island and immersed ourselves in its reality, names, myths,” says producer Renato Ciasca.
JIA ZHANG-KE: A GUY FROM FENYANG
Walter Salles, Panorama Documentary
The film portrays “cinema as a guide to travel in today’s China, (based on) a conversation between two filmmakers who both broke through at Berlin in 1998,” when Walter
Salles presented “Central Station” and Jia Zhang-ke was there with “Pickpocket,” says Berlin’s Brazil programmer Jose Carlos Avellar.
BRAZILIAN DREAM
Marcelo Pedroso, Forum
Boasting broad narrative, “Brazilian Dream” lines up icons of Brazil’s sexed-up myth of modernization: Babes in new cars, high-rise cityscapes, idyllic parks. A questioning vision of Brazil “drunk on its progress,” says director Pedroso.
ANIMAL RACE
Ernesto Solis, Co-Production Market
Set up at Vania Catani’s Bananaeira Filmes, “Animal Race” turns on a “Hunger Games”-style contest set in a futuristic Rio. Budget is $5 million with Marco Abujamra and Felipe Braga penning the film. Duo co-wrote Stephan Daldry’s Rio-set “Trash.”
SEASHORE
Felipe Matzenbacher, Marcio Reolon, Forum/Generation
Shot at a beach house in Rio Grande do Sul overlooking an immense wintery coast and gray skies, “Seashore” follows two childhood friends facing their passage into adulthood, the search for who they are, their discovery of sexuality and rupture with parents. A FiGa/Br pickup from Porto Alegre’s ever-growing film industry.
UNTIL THE WAY
Davi Pretto, Brazil, Co-Production Market
In Brazil’s deep south a young man on a remote property becomes increasing disturbed by cars and tourists in summer. Pretto’s follow-up to 2014 Forum entry “Castanha,” works the boundaries between fiction and documentary: “Something between a road movie, Western and suspenser,” says Pretto, who, impressively, has 86% of funding in place.
ABSENCE
Chico Teixeira, Panorama
An absent dad and alcholic mother play havoc with 14-year-old Serginho’s coming of age and budding sexuality in Sao Paulo suburbs.
“This is not about Third World poverty, Serginho’s not a favela drug dealer, but he does have a large emotional emptiness, which affects his relationships with everybody around him,” says producer Paula Cosenza at BossaNovaFilms. Sold by IM Global-Canana joint venture Mundial and a special jury prize winner at October’s Rio Fest, it marks Teixeira’s follow-up to debut “Alice’s House,” well received at Berlin’s 2007 Panorama.
Brazilian Films Unspooling in Panorama, Forum, the Berlin Co-production Market
THE SECOND MOTHER
Anna Muylaert, Panorama
Playing both Sundance and Berlin, “The Second Mother” has been picked up by the Match Factory. It stood out at Locarno’s Carte Blanche showcase and is produced by Gullane Filmes. A dramedy of manners — with Regina Case playing a nanny whose daughter arrives to take exams for Sao Paulo U.’s exclusive architecture school — it also tackles head-on one key to narrowing Brazil’s gross social gulfs: Access to top-notch education. “While prioritizing story and character, ‘The Second Mother’ talks maturely about deep social change in and outside Brazil,” says Fabiano Gullane.
BLUE BLOOD
Lirio Ferreira, Panorama opener
Given up at age 9 to the Neptuno Circus by his mother, Pedro returns 20 years later as Zolah the Cannon Man just as his sister is getting married. Sweeping October’s Rio Fest — best fiction feature, director, supporting actor (Romulo Braga) winner — “Blue Blood” is set on a stunning volcanic isle. “We went to the island and immersed ourselves in its reality, names, myths,” says producer Renato Ciasca.
JIA ZHANG-KE: A GUY FROM FENYANG
Walter Salles, Panorama Documentary
The film portrays “cinema as a guide to travel in today’s China, (based on) a conversation between two filmmakers who both broke through at Berlin in 1998,” when Walter
Salles presented “Central Station” and Jia Zhang-ke was there with “Pickpocket,” says Berlin’s Brazil programmer Jose Carlos Avellar.
BRAZILIAN DREAM
Marcelo Pedroso, Forum
Boasting broad narrative, “Brazilian Dream” lines up icons of Brazil’s sexed-up myth of modernization: Babes in new cars, high-rise cityscapes, idyllic parks. A questioning vision of Brazil “drunk on its progress,” says director Pedroso.
ANIMAL RACE
Ernesto Solis, Co-Production Market
Set up at Vania Catani’s Bananaeira Filmes, “Animal Race” turns on a “Hunger Games”-style contest set in a futuristic Rio. Budget is $5 million with Marco Abujamra and Felipe Braga penning the film. Duo co-wrote Stephan Daldry’s Rio-set “Trash.”
SEASHORE
Felipe Matzenbacher, Marcio Reolon, Forum/Generation
Shot at a beach house in Rio Grande do Sul overlooking an immense wintery coast and gray skies, “Seashore” follows two childhood friends facing their passage into adulthood, the search for who they are, their discovery of sexuality and rupture with parents. A FiGa/Br pickup from Porto Alegre’s ever-growing film industry.
UNTIL THE WAY
Davi Pretto, Brazil, Co-Production Market
In Brazil’s deep south a young man on a remote property becomes increasing disturbed by cars and tourists in summer. Pretto’s follow-up to 2014 Forum entry “Castanha,” works the boundaries between fiction and documentary: “Something between a road movie, Western and suspenser,” says Pretto, who, impressively, has 86% of funding in place.
ABSENCE
Chico Teixeira, Panorama
An absent dad and alcholic mother play havoc with 14-year-old Serginho’s coming of age and budding sexuality in Sao Paulo suburbs.
“This is not about Third World poverty, Serginho’s not a favela drug dealer, but he does have a large emotional emptiness, which affects his relationships with everybody around him,” says producer Paula Cosenza at BossaNovaFilms. Sold by IM Global-Canana joint venture Mundial and a special jury prize winner at October’s Rio Fest, it marks Teixeira’s follow-up to debut “Alice’s House,” well received at Berlin’s 2007 Panorama.