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BRAZILIAN CULTURE MONTH 2012

For the ninth consecutive year, the Pharos Arts Foundation, the Honorary Consulate of Brazil, and

the Embassy of Brazil in Cyprus, present the BRAZILIAN CULTURE MONTH.

Throughout the months of October and November, a series of events dedicated to the arts and culture of Brazil will showcase aspects of the country's culture through art, music, films, books and educational programmes. Events comprise the 9

th Brazilian Film Festival, the Brazilian Book Month,

the educational programme Brazil in the Primary School, a book presentation by Dr. Ioannis Lyras' (Honorary Consul of Brazil in Piraeus), as well as concerts by the sensational jazz singer Ithamara Koorax, a recital by the popular singer Cadu de Andrade and pianist Farlley Derze, and a classical guitar recital by the renowned guitarist Marcos Vinicius.

EVENTS:

LIVE JAZZ WITH ITHAMARA KOORAX

Friday 5 October 2012 / 8:30pm – The Shoe Factory, Nicosia Saturday 6 October 2012 / 10:00pm – Graffiti Lounge Bar, Limassol

DR. IOANNIS LYRAS PRESENTS HIS BOOK THE SECRET OF THE BRAZILIAN BEAUTY

Followed by a cocktail reception and a short piano recital by Farlley Derze

Thursday 18 October 2012 / 7:30pm – 9:30pm – The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

RECITAL WITH POPULAR SINGER CADU DE ANDRADE & PIANIST FARLLEY DERZE

Friday 19 October 2012 / 8:30pm – The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CLASSICAL GUITAR RECITAL WITH MARCOS VINICIUS

Friday 26 October 2012 / 8:30pm – The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

9TH

BRAZILIAN FILM FESTIVAL

Monday 5 November – Saturday 10 November / 7:30pm & 9:30pm – The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

BRAZILIAN BOOK MONTH

1 – 31 October 2012 / Moufflon Bookshop, Nicosia (10% discount in all books that deal with Brazilian issues) For more information: www.pharosartsfoundation.org Email: info@pharosartsfoundation.org Tel: +357 22663871

A JAZZ EVENING WITH

ITHAMARA KOORAX

Friday 5 October 2012 / 8:30pm – The Shoe Factory, Nicosia Tickets: €15 Tel. 7000-9304 (daily 9.30-11.30am) / www.pharostickets.org

Saturday 6 October 2012 / 10:00pm – Graffiti Lounge Bar, Limassol For reservations call: +357 25 747 552 Entrance price: €15 including a drink Considered one of the top singers in the contemporary jazz scene, Ithamara Koorax has been voted 3rd in the Downbeat 2008 and 2009 Readers Polls for 'Best Female Vocalist' (behind only Diana Krall and Cassandra Wilson), and is featured as one the best jazz singers of all time in the book The Jazz Singers - The Ultimate Guide, recently released in the USA by journalist and historian Scott Yanow. Her album, Bim Bom - The Complete Joao Gilberto Songbook, was released received rave reviews in the New York Times, JazzTimes, Cashbox, Billboard, Jazz Hot, Jazz 'n' More, and many other websites,

magazines and newspapers. Voted one of the Best Albums of 2009 by All About Jazz-NY, Village Voice and Latin Jazz Network. Another recent CD, O Grande Amor, recorded during a European tour in 2010, was also released worldwide with critical acclaim, receiving a 4.5 star review in the May 2011 issue of DownBeat magazine and 5 stars in Jazz 'n' More. Chris Slawecki, Senior Editor of All About Jazz, wrote: "Perhaps there's an easier way to describe it, but if Barbara Streisand ever went into a recording studio with Michel Legrand and Miles Davis, O Grande Amor is what might have come out. It is simply stunning and spectacular." Koorax has recorded 15 solo albums, 17 soundtracks and participated in more than 200 special projects and compilations. She has collaborated with such artists as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfa, Ron Carter, Larry Coryell, Elizeth Cardoso, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, John McLaughlin, Sadao Watanabe, Hermeto Pascoal, Marcos Valle, Jay Berliner, Edu Lobo, Martinho da Vila, Jurgen Friedrich, Claus Ogerman, Dave Brubeck, Joao Donato, Dom Um Romao, Thiago de Mello, Mario Castro-Neves, Raul de Souza, Lou Volpe, Laudir de Oliveira, Rodgers Grant, Gil Goldstein, Art Farmer, Eddie Gomez, the groups Azymuth, Gazzara and Os Cariocas, the big band Rio Jazz Orchestra, and the Symphony Orchestras Petrobras and Jazz Sinfonica. "I quickly became a Koorax Convert", wrote the famous jazz historian Ira Gitler. "Koorax is her own woman. She is multi-faceted and multi-lingual, comfortable in all situations and expressive in a variety of languages. Her range and technique are remarkable but you don’t necessarily take time out to marvel at her technique until later on because you are too absorbed in her musical message. Her powerful singing speaks for itself with celestial eloquence."

PLASTIC SURGEON

DR. IOANNIS LYRAS

PRESENTS HIS BOOK

THE SECRET OF THE

BRAZILIAN BEAUTY

Followed by a cocktail reception

and a short piano recital by Farlley

Derze

Thursday 18 October 2012 / 7:30pm – 9:30pm – The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

Dr Ioannis Lyras, practices plastic surgery in Athens, Greece, the city where he was born in 1961.He also practices in Cyprus . He graduated General Medicine in 1985 and received his board certifications in this surgical specialty in 1993 and 1995. Dr Lyras received a great part of his knowledge in Plastic Surgery as trainee-assistant of world renowned pioneer Professor Ivo Pitanguy at the Pitanguy Institute (Instituto Ivo Pitanguy) in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Ivo Pitanguy is one of the most important Plastic Surgeons in the world and considered one of the leading figures of our century in Medicine.

Dr. Lyras has practised medicine in Europe, North & South America. Since setting up his practice in Greece, and Cyprus, Dr Lyras has striven to wed the philosophy of Hippocrates, the father of medicine, with the latest technology and team work.. He beholds the following awards. Spina 1993, Cidesco 2008, Gusi 2006 and FICAC 2010 He is currently the President of the Ivo Pitanguy European Academy of Plastic Surgery, directly affiliated with the Ivo Pitanguy Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, performing all the techniques that are applied in Brazil and many other personal, innovative techniques currently applied in Europe, U.S.A. and Asia Dr Lyras is registered in Greece and Cyprus and is currently practicing plastic surgery in Athens and Nicosia. He is also the Honorary Consul of Brazil in Greece (Pireas)

RECITAL WITH POPULAR SINGER CADU DE ANDRADE

& PIANIST FARLLEY DERZE

Friday 19 October 2012 / 8:30pm – The Shoe Factory, Nicosia Tickets: €15 Tel. 7000-9304 (daily 9.30-11.30am) / www.pharostickets.org

A Brazilian musician who has already aroused international interest, this time lends his talent, presence and strong interpretation capability to a very special project: Brazilian popular music in the national cinema, Cadu de Andrade has a

beautiful voice and rare timbre where high, medium and low notes sounds flow easily, in perfect tune. An authentic “show man”, he never hides his sensitivity and talent in the recordings as well as in the interpretation of anthological numbers from classic and romantic movies that came together for this project. We are instantly transported to a dream zone upon hearing him. Cadu sings and we are moved – so proper is his interpretation. Cinema!, a beautiful show, became a

beautiful CD. It gets a new form and title because it leaves behind what Hollywood so masterly has fabricated to dive into the Brazilian music, inspiration of our cinema. In Cine Brasil, the singer, taking advantage of his perfect diction and

technique, elevates the national songbook due to the high poetic content of the lyrics that Brazilian music is made of. The repertoire is formed by works that are important because of their origin: they bring rich melody and harmony to this project. The record was produced and directed by Geraldo Vianna, an icon of the guitar in Brazil who has an international recognition. He was helped, conceptually, by Jose Sebastião Maria de Souza and Uta Schwietzer. The mixing is a delightful job where the blend of sounds is clear and well distributed, where depth prevails. The sensation is that you are in a theatre listening to a live performance of the musical pearls that make up the record. The pleasure Cadu de Andrade gets from his work is clear when you listen to him. He is a musician in love and beyond simple definitions who walks side by side with the beauty and respect of the profession he bravely has chosen: singing. José Carlos Buzelin, music critic

Farlley Derze started his musical studies at 5 years old, choosing

the accordion as his first musical instrument. At 7 years, he began to study the piano. After attending the Carminha Alonso Piano Conservatory, in Rio de Janeiro, he entered the University of Rio de Janeiro, where he graduated in Music. Later, he had a Master’s Degree (University of Brasília) and specialised in History of Art (University Dulcina de Moraes). In 1985, he started playing professionally in different bands as well as accompanying singers in concerts all over Brazil. He played with singers Claudia Telles, the Golden Boys, Leila Pinheiro, Sandra Duailibe, Rita Ribeiro, Claudio Lins, Miúcha, Antenor Bogéa, Janette Dornellas, Mariana de Moraes, Simone Guimarães and Celia Rabelo, among others. He has been playing also in Africa, Europe and South America. He has composed for TV documentaries and films. He has recorded his works in several CDs (GÊNESE – 2000, ACALANTO – 2001, NAQUELAS NOITES DE NATAL – 2001 etc) and has also made

arrangements and recordings for several singers’ CDs. His main work is in the area of Brazilian music such as bossa nova and samba, and Jazz and Latin music. The French journalist Any Collin wrote about him: “Farlley Derze is such a special piano player that no one can stay indifferent when he is performing. In his concerts I feel like floating among stars in a groundless space. His paying is not only dynamic but also delicate and sensitive”. Besides playing in Brazil, Farlley Derze has played in different countries (France, Greece, Cape Vert, Spain, Portugal etc). In Greece, in April 2010, he played in a very special concert for the presentation of Antenor Bogea’s CD INNAXOS, with the participation of Nena Venetsanou, Elena Kisseleva, Afendula Razeili, Antenor Bogéa, Iannos Arvanitakis, Jean-Philippe Crespin and Vassilis Kontaxis.

CLASSICAL GUITAR

RECITAL WITH

MARCOS VINICIUS

Friday 26 October 2012 / 8:30pm – The Shoe Factory, Nicosia Tickets: €15 Tel. 7000-9304 (daily 9.30-11.30am) / www.pharostickets.org

“…besides his virtuosity, Marcos Vinicius lets us listen to the poetic sounds hidden in the strings of this wonderful

instrument”Riccardo Chailly – Director of the Royal

Concertgebouw – Amsterdam Marcos Vinicius started his concert career at the age of fourteen and, since then, he has gained an increasing success of public and critics, playing in the most prestigious Brazilian and European cultural centres. The story of his first encounter with the guitar, when he was 8, is really singular: “…coming back from school, I always walked along the same way to go home…One day, as my mother didn’t see me at home at the usual time, worried about my unusual being late, came and looked for me, walking along my way, and suddenly she saw me, still in front of a shop window where there was a guitar hung on the wall (I remember it as if it had happened today)…The owner of the shop, seeing my mother coming, told her that I was there, my eyes fixed on that instrument, since more than

an hour and he added: ‘Mrs…it is as if he had discovered something very precious for him’. Fortunately, at that moment, my mother realised the force of that attraction for me and, though with difficulty, she bought me my first guitar. I still thank her, because she understood that by that present she allowed me to walk along this difficult but fantastic way.” He was only sixteen when he received the Honorary Diploma from the Cultural Department of Congonhas, a Brazilian city protected by UNESCO as World Historical Heritage and, in 1984, he won, by unanimously, the prestigious National Villa-Lobos Musical Contest. In 1987, he distinguished himself as the best guitarist in the Master Classes held by Oscar Ghiglia and received the “Diploma of Merit” from the Chigiana Musical Academy of Siena. Graduated with the title of Teacher of Classical Guitar in the Superior Chair at the State University of Brazil, he is often invited as a Professor and concert player by the most important Music Conservatories of his country, two of which are the Recife Music Conservatory and the Music High School of the Minas Gerais Federal University. He has performed as a soloist with prestigious orchestras, such as the Milan Ensemble, the Pernambuco Symphony Orchestra and the Minas Gerais’ Symphony Orchestra, winning, in 1992, the title of Soloist of the Year for his performance in the famous Concierto de Aranjuez with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra.

Besides his intensive concert activity, Marcos Vinicius attends to important transcriptions and editing revisions of works for classical guitar that are edited and promoted by Edizioni Carrara (Bergamo), that have also given him the direction of a whole collection called Marcos Vinicius Guitar Collection – a collection that has the prerogative of bringing to light a

repertoire for this instrument always new and rich of treasures sometimes still unexplored. Also his original works for classical guitar now are published by Sonitus and Preludio Editions (Italy) and Periferia Sheet Music in Spain. Thanks to his profound knowledge of the guitar repertoire, Marcos Vinicius is often invited to give lectures and Master Classes that take him around the world. His technique of a very high standard and his sensitive stylistic interpretation, have also attracted the attention of many composers who dedicated to him valued works for guitar – for example, William Lovelady in England, Paolo Colombo and Antonio Brena in Italy, Marcelo Fortuna, Julio Borges and Claudio Tupinambà in Brazil. His record production, that includes the CDs Dedicatoria, My Hands...My Soul, Guitar Recital, Leyendas, Encanto and Viola...Violar (edited by Discantica, Milan) and more recently, Playing Marcos Vinicius, has always been followed by enthusiastic critical in Europe and America (Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, Io Donna, Amadeus, O Estado de Minas, The Independent, El Pais, among others).Marcos Vinicius lives and works in Italy, where for several years held the position of President of the Academy of Classical Guitar in Milan. Marcos Vinicius will perform a selection of Brazilian pieces as well as works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Isaac Albeniz, Georg Frederic Handel, Radamés Gnatalli, David Kellner, Mauro Giuliani, Celso Machado, William Lovelady

9TH

BRAZILIAN FILM FESTIVAL

Monday 5 November – Saturday 10 November / 7:30pm & 9:30pm – The Shoe Factory, Nicosia Entrance: Free

This year, the Brazilian Film Festival includes some diverse as well as challenging films exhibiting the life, art and politics of Brazil from different angles. Some are quite blithe whereas others penetrate into the darker side of the Brazilian reality – but all of them are captivating and extremely interesting to watch.

MONDAY 5 NOVEMBER / 7.30pm

Bróder Director: Jeferson De Release Year: 2011 Duration: 93’ Jeferson De’s debut film Bróder describes the story of 23-year-old Macu, who has lived on the outskirts of São Paulo all his life. During a surprise birthday party organized by his mother Dona Sonia, he reencounters two of his childhood buddies who no longer live in the neighbourhood: Jaiminho, today a successful soccer player in Spain, and Pibe, who strives to make a living as an insurance salesman. Even though the two friends had moved away, they still have unresolved business to take care of in the neighbourhood: Jaiminho had gotten Macu’s stepsister, Elaine, pregnant before leaving, and Pibe had married Macu’s ex-girlfriend, Claudia. What neither the family nor the friends know is that Macu is deeply in debt with local drug dealers and has agreed to let them use his house as a hideout for a child to be kidnapped by the local drug dealers. When the plans to kidnap the kid are called off, the gang leaders decide they want Macu to help them kidnap Jaiminho, the millionaire soccer player. Macu has to decide whether

to help the criminals and betray his friend or to confront them and risk his own life. The film was shot in Capão Redondo, a district where more than 1,100 people were murdered since 2000, and home to some of the most talented Brazilian artists today, such as musician Mano Brown, the songs of who are included in the film’s soundtrack, as well as writer Ferrez who has collaborated with the movie’s screenplay. The film received the awards for Best Film, Best Music, and Best Director at the Gramado Film Festival (2010) and at the Prêmio Contigo Cinema, Brazil (2011), as well as the São Paulo Association of Art Critics Award for Best Film in 2012.

MONDAY 5 NOVEMBER / 9.30pm

Janela da Alma Directors: João Jardim, Walter Carvalho Release Year: 2001 Duration: 73’ The Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize winner José Saramago was once sitting on the upper balcony of the opera, with a good view of the chandelier that looked so dazzling from the ground. From the balcony, he suddenly saw the true nature of the object, complete with cobwebs and dirt. It was a lesson he would never forget, he tells the directors João Jardim and Walter Carvalho, who took the subjective experience of seeing as the theme of their documentary. Wim Wenders again unfolds his obsession with watching and being blind: he argues in favour of spectacles, which unlike contact lenses frame the world. Wenders sees the benefits of this limitation. Neurologist Oliver Sacks stresses the importance of the imagination: people can deceive themselves into thinking that they see a magnetic field above an object with ‘the eyes of the mind’. Furthermore, Agnès Varda, Hanna Schygulla and a number of Brazilian writers, poets and musicians talk about their personal experiences with blindness and short-sightedness. For

example, a blind bus passenger knows exactly where on the route he is at a given moment, because he knows the map of the area with all its bumps and turns by heart. Blindness, too, is relative: criticism is passed on the bombardment of images that is poured out at the contemporary viewer, leaving him behind senseless: ‘blind’ The film won the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize for Best Documentary in 2003, the Golden Centaur Award at the 2002 St. Petersburg Message to Man Film Festival and the Audience Award and International Jury Award for Best Documentary at the 2001 São Paulo International Film Festival

TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER / 7.30pm

Bossa Nova Director: Bruno Barreto Release Year: 2000 Duration: 95’ Recalling late period films from Francois Truffaut and American 1930s screwball comedies, Bruno Barreto directs this elegant romantic comedy set in Brazil. Mary Ann Simpson is a middle-aged American widow teaching English in Rio de Janeiro. Since her pilot husband died two years previously, Mary Ann has more or less dispensed with any ideas of a second chance at love. When one of her nubile young students mentions that she found her perfect match, Mary Ann insists that one can only meet Mr. Right in the flesh. Later, she shares an elevator with suave attorney Pedro Paulo, who is in the throes of a painful transition after his wife Tania dumped him for a tai chi instructor. Pedro is struck by Mary Ann immediately, and he decides to sign up for one of her classes even though he is thoroughly fluent in English. Meanwhile, soccer ace Acacio is struggling through Mary Ann's language classes in order to play for a UK team. The good-looking athlete flirts with his teacher for a while, complicating things for

Pedro Paulo. The film was screened at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival and was nominated for Best Cinema Release, Best Director and Best Music awards at the 2001 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize.

TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER / 9.30pm

As Melhores Coisas do Mundo Director: Laís Bodanzky Release Year: 2010 Duration: 105’ As Melhores Coisas do Mundo (The Best Things in the World) revolves around a teenager’s day-to-day, as seen from the perspective of young people today, as he faces the changes that will turn his world upside-down. The film tells the story of Hermano, also known as Mano, a 15 year-old boy, cast into a scenario completely new to him – Upon returning home from school one day he finds out that his parents are going to get a divorce. Mano would be just another number in the statistics of all the young people that suffer through their parent’s divorce if it weren’t for the motive behind their separation. The anguish and loss brought about by this intense experience torment the protagonist who, now, together with his older brother, must become the men at home.

The Best Things in the World is a film filled with youthful energy which endeavours to portray young people today based on the experience of a 15 year-old boy, revealing the roads down which he must walk to attain to maturity. The results of discoveries such as tolerance, compassion and the true value of friendship are coupled with the feeling that everything that is solid crumbles into thin air. The film won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 2011 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize, the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 2010 Prêmio Contigo Cinema Brazil, the Calunga Trophy for Best Director, Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing at the Recife Cine PE Audiovisual Festival, and the APCA Trophy for Best Director and BEST Screenplay at the São Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards.

WEDNESDAY 7 NOVEMBER / 7.30pm

Senna Director: Asif Kapadia Release Year: 2010 Duration: 106’ Senna, Asif Kapadia’s documentary biography of the Brazilian race car driver Ayrton Senna, a three-time Formula One world champion, virtually puts you in the lap of its subject as he hurtles like a speeding bullet along the fastest tracks. The film is two things: a discreet hagiography of the handsome, soft-spoken Senna, who was only 34 when he died in a 1994 crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in Italy, and a compressed, esoteric slice of Formula One history during his 10-year ascendance. The documentary weaves off-screen interviews into a streamlined voice-over narrative, while the camera rarely strays from the racetrack. Compiled from thousands of hours of footage, much of it from the Formula One archive,

the film is a considerable feat of editing. The racing segments, consisting mostly of television clips and footage from mini-cams attached to cars, is frequently heart-stopping, despite its low resolution. The film resurrects several notable crashes, some fatal, others not. The film won a BAFTA Film Award in 2012 for Best Documentary Film and Best Editing, the British Independent Film Award for Best Documentary in 2011, the Audience Award for Best Film at the Ghent International Film Festival (2011), the Outstanding Documentary Editing Award by the International Documentary Association (2011), the Audience Award for Best International Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival (2011), the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival (2011), and the Most Popular Documentary Prize at the Melbourne International Film Festival (2011).

WEDNESDAY 7 NOVEMBER / 9.30pm

Pelé Eterno Director: Anibal Massaini Neto Release Year: 2004 Duration: 125’ Pelé Eterno (Pelé Forever ) is screened throughout Brazil. The career of the best player of the 20

th century, in addition to blending art and

emotion, is also one of redemption, history and renown without precedent in Brazil. The thrilling, incomparable and mythological story of Pelé is recounted to the rhythms of the documentary’s soundtrack created especially by Jorge Ben Jor. It traces his life, from his childhood growing up poor in Bauru up to the present , not only with never – before –seen footage, but also with revelations regarding his personal and professional life. Achieving this took five years of search and research efforts in the most import film archives in Brazil and abroad. Seventy archives were researched, yielding more than 450 goals, 3000 photographs, 210 narration of goals and 1500 headlines from newspapers and magazines of that time. In addition, 150 taped testimonies of family members, friends, players, former teammates and celebrities were collected. The film won the Award of City of Rome at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER / 7.30pm

Brava gente brasileira Director: Lúcia Murat Release Year: 2000 Duration: 104’ One explorer's "discovery" has tragic consequences in this drama from Brazil. Diogo is a cartographer from Portugal stationed at the Coimbra Fort, a compound in the Mato Grosso regions of Brazil. Diogo has come to Brazil to search out previously unknown cities and draw maps of the area. His life takes an unexpected turn when he falls in love with Anote, a beautiful young woman whose family rules a local tribe of Guaicuru Indians. When Anote becomes pregnant with Diogo's child, he earns the enmity of the Guaicuru people, leading them into a battle with the soldiers of Coimbra Fort, and leaving 54 of the Portuguese dead. The film won the Candango Trophy for Best Actress and Best Music at the 2000 Brazilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema.

THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER / 9.30pm

Secrets of the Tribe Director: José Padilha Release Year: 2010 Duration: 87’ The anthropological field resembles a vipers' nest of ethical breaches and academic backstabbing in Jose Padilha's Secrets of the Tribe. A collaborative project between HBO Documentary Films, BBC and Stampede, this eye-opening documentary investigates several decades of questionable research and behaviour that ultimately rendered Amazonian Brazil's Yanomami – once considered the last, "purest" primitive society untouched by outside influence – bitterly cynical toward First World interlopers. The major adversaries here are two well-known US authorities on the subject: Napoleon Chagnon, who began studying the Yanomami in the 1960s and wrote the popular tome Yanomamo: The Fierce People, which described bloody intertribal wars. But his data, conclusions and tactics (plus involvement in a reckless spread of Western diseases) have been seriously questioned. Ardent foe, Kenneth Good, whose books sparked a flood of New Age-like media, portrayed Yanomami as peaceful innocents, but he was criticized for marrying a 13-year-old tribeswoman. Levi-Strauss protégé, Jacques Lizot (who refused to be interviewed)

allegedly traded Western goods (even guns) for pederast sexual services. Colleagues both supportive and appalled are featured in this fascinating assembly of heated debate and archival footage.

FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER / 7.30pm

A musica segundo Tom Jobim Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos Release Year: 2012 Duration: 84’ The extraordinary universe of the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim cannot be captured in words. It was with this idea in mind and equipped with their natural sensitivity that directors Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Dora Jobim embraced the challenge of unraveling onto film the musical trajectory of this great Brazilian composer, author of a timeless collection of work with strong international appeal. In The Music according to Antonio Carlos Jobim, the directors chose to adopt a sensorial approach in their use of image and sound in order to showcase the work of a musician considered, alongside Heitor Villa-Lobos, to be one of the greatest Brazilian musical talents of all time. Not a single word is spoken in the film. There is no need. A succession of images of great Brazilian and international interpreters in unforgettable performances, as well as Jobim himself, in different moments, outline the musical trajectory of this “sovereign composer”. Everything is present: the force and beauty of his music, the different phases of the artist, the wide appeal and poetry of his songs, his musical personality, the importance of his work. All this is woven into the narrative in a vigorous and poetic manner, with no need for further explanation, merely the pleasure and emotion of listening to Tom Jobim.

The documentary has been screened at a number of international film festivals, including the Copenhagen International Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival.

FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER / 9.30pm

Jogo de Cena Director: Eduardo Coutinho Release Year: 2007 Duration: 100’ The friction between truth and fiction and the power of performance to dissolve the difference between the two have long been subjects of some fascination to Brazilian director Eduardo Coutinho. His breakthrough 1984 film Twenty Years Later, for example, is a hybrid of narrative and documentary footage shot two decades apart. What Coutinho began in 1964 as a straightforward retelling of the murder of a labour organizer winds up, 20 years later, as a meta-exercise reflecting on the role this unfinished feature played in the lives of its cast when shooting was shut down by the Brazilian government. Jogo de Cena is Coutinho's most concentrated exploration of the question, "What is real?" An advertisement in a newspaper invites women in Rio de Janeiro to come and tell their stories on camera. These interviews take place in an empty theatre with a camera rolling. Later, the stories these women tell are reiterated by a series of actresses, shot in the same empty theatre. Who is "acting" and who is "telling" is left unspecified by Coutinho as he interweaves the monologues- identical sentences

spoken by two different women, in two different ways, jam up against each other in a series of jump cuts, and unless viewers instantly recognize one of the actresses, they will have a hard time deciphering the real from the fake. Coutinho's aim is to explore those two categories, and if that sounds like a rather dry intellectual stunt, rest assured, his methods make Jogo de Cena moving and surprisingly suspenseful. The Film was nominated for Best Actress, Best Documentary, Best Editing - Documentary, Best Original Screenplay awards at the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize in 2008, and won the Best Director of a Documentary Award and Best Documentary Award at the Prêmio Contigo Cinema Brazil (2008), as well as the APCA Trophy for Best Film at the São Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards (2008).

SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER / 7.30pm

Elite Squad Director: José Padilha Release Year: 2007 Duration: 115’ The Elite Squad is a semi-fictional account of the BOPE, the Special

Police Operations Squad of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police. The film is an intense and astonishing look at Rio de Janeiro's notorious favelas, the volatile slums on the edge of the city. It is set in 1997 and presents an intimate look at the city's vast and intricate web of corruption. Drug trafficking militias have virtual control within the favelas while the police run their criminal enterprises outside. The elite BOPE force combats drug trafficking – keeping order has its price though and their actions make it difficult to distinguish right from wrong and justice from revenge. BOPE Captain Nascimento is facing a crisis: in addition to the pressures of fighting within war zones, the Captain must find and train his own replacement so he can escape the day to day violence and be close to his wife who is about to give birth to their first child. Two of the force's newest recruits, Neto and Matias, are childhood friends: one is quick on the trigger to maintain order and the other refuses to compromise his ideals. Together they are the perfect replacement. Alone they may not have what it takes to survive. The Elite Squad was an outstanding commercial success, and became a cultural phenomenon in Brazil. The film won the Golden Bear at the

2008 Berlin Film Festival. Other awards include the Silver Condor for Best Foreign Film at the 2008 Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards, the 2008 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize (for Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Special Effects, Best Supporting Actor), the Gold Medal for Best Impact of Music in a Feature Film at the 2009 Park City Film Music Festival, the Best Director and Best Editing awards at the 2008 São Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards, and the awards for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Motion Picture, Best Screenplay at the Prêmio Contigo Cinema Brazil.

SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER / 9.30pm

Elite Squad 2 : The Enemy Within Director: José Padilha Release Year: 2010 Duration: 115' The sprawling slum that towers over Rio de Janeiro is one of the most dangerous places on Earth, and as the head of Rio's BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion), Captain Nascimento (Wagner Moura) has seen his share of intense situations. When a BOPE mission to stop a jail riot ends in violence, Nascimento finds his job on the line – and BOPE accused of a massacre by human rights activists. But a public fed up with the violence and gangs that plague Rio loves it, and Nascimento finds himself embraced as a hero who gets results. With elections around the corner, he's promoted

to Sub-Secretary of Intelligence. In his powerful new post, Nascimento strengthens BOPE and brings the drug gangs that run the slum to their knees – only to come to the sobering realization that by doing so, he's only made things easier for the corrupt cops and dirty politicians who are truly running the game. After years in the trenches, Nascimento now finds that his new enemies are much more dangerous and, even worse, sitting at desks just down the hall. Having enjoyed public and critical acclaim, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within is the all-time largest box office ticket seller and highest-grossing film in Brazil. It has won the Trophy for Best Editing and Best Sound at the 2011 ABC Cinematography Award, the 2011 São Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards for Best Actor and Best Film, the Best Director and Best Editing Awards at the 2011 Havana Film Festival, the 2011 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound and Best Supporting Actor, and the 2011 Prêmio Contigo Cinema Brazil for Best Actor, Best Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Director.