This film tracks the Minhocão or ‘giant earthworm’: an elevated highway slicing through São Paulo, subtly connecting Brazil’s ambitious architectural past to its troubled political present. On Sundays, when it is closed to vehicles, Paulistas reclaim the highway for cycling, walking or partying. What was once a scar is now almost beautiful.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
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The Happiest Barrack
Tracing her grandmother’s life of destitution in Soviet Hungary, Noémi Varga scans a house, the inhabitants of which appear numb and depr -
Foyer
A piece of blank paper flapping before a camera’s lens attracts a crowd of passers-by in Tunis. From the white void and the comments it… -
Explosion Ma Baby
It is August. Feel the suffocating heat of the sun penetrating your skin. Screams, colours, chants, garlands of money, explosions, and the angelic ico
Film details
- Productielanden
- Brazil, Germany
- Jaar
- 2016
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2017
- Lengte
- 21'
- Medium/Formaat
- File
