Event Details
The “For a Female Black Cinema – Brazil”, curated by Janaína Oliveira for the 3rd Porto Feminist Festival, is made up of significant achievements of female black Brazilian production in contemporary times. The objective is to present to the public a fraction of the strength of this generation that has been strengthening collective productions, highlighting the female black protagonism in the audiovisual productions of the country when seeking to break the barriers of national cinema production in Brazil.
Empowered – #EP04 2º Season
Documentary – 8′ – YEAR 2017
Sao Paulo
Director – Renata Martins
Synopsis
Sueli Carneiro is one of the greatest Brazilian references in the history of black feminism. Born in Lapa and raised in the western part of São Paulo, Sueli always knew what it was to be black. It was from her entrance into the faculty of philosophy and into the militancy of the black movement that her knowledge was transformed into action. Referenced in Lélia Gonzales and Abdias do Nascimento, Sueli Carneiro is a philosopher and a PhD in education and one of the founders of Geledés – Black Women’s Institute. In our meeting, Sueli is more than the voice of militancy and black feminism, she tells us her story as a good matriarch who is.
Monga, Coffee Portrait
Documentary – 15’ – YEAR 2017
Brazil & Cuba
Director – Everlane Moraes
Synopsis
An invitation to have a cup of coffee. This is the beginning of an intimate conversation that allows me to sketch a portrait of Ramona Reyes, a woman who works on the coffee plantations, a culture she inherited from her father, a Haitian murdered for being a messenger for the rebels, to help the triumph of the revolution. Her dry hands, punished by work, still maintains the simple vanity of a woman who hasn’t lost her beauty.
Maíra is well
Documentary – 8’ – YEAR 2017
Pernambuco
Director – Juliana Lima
Synopsis
Through narratives, the video documentary “Maíra is well”, about the loneliness of the black woman, presents experiences of women who decided military for independence and against the cruel everyday social life imposed by racism and discrimination, having also in common the fact that they haven’t fixed affective partners. These are testimonies loaded with feelings caused by exclusion and prejudice.
Merê
Documentary – 15’ – YEAR 2017
Brazil
Director – Urânia Munzanzu
Synopsis
A Women ‘s film based on the experience of director Urânia Munzanzu, to speak of female protagonism in the Jeje Mahi tradition, religious tradition and faith in transatlantic bridges – from Bahia to Benin / Africa. A documentary with an intimate and sensitive look, (re) uniting the “secret owners” of a tradition under threat of extinction, the nation of candomblé Jeje. The film invites the matriarchs of the cult of Vodun in Bahia for their first encounter with the Mother Earth. Taking the heirs of the ancestry that forged in Brazil “other Africas”, the director remakes the route of the Routes of slavery treading paths of freedom.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/185874849
Crossing
Documentary – 5′ – YEAR 2017
Brazil
Director – Safira Moreira
Synopsis
Using a poetic language, Travessia starts from the search for the photographic memory of the black families and assumes a critical and affirmative posture in the face of the near absence and stigmatization of black representation.
Faith girl (1st episode)
Fiction – 6’27 – YEAR 2017
Guinea Bissau, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Chile
Director – Elekô Audiovisual Collective and Women of Stone
Synopsis
Illuminated by the moon, the goddesses enter the poetic belly of the mangrove. In the light of the waning the deification is revealed in gestures, movements, offerings that move the crossing marked by faith, spell and wisdom.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/LLZLXdSMX0M
I NEED THESE WORDS WRITTEN
Fiction – 19′ – YEAR 2017
Rio de Janeiro/Brazil
Director – Milena Manfredini
Synopsis
The past of Arthur Bishop of the Rosary is practically unknown. It is only known that he was a Negro, a sailor, and a boxer. In 1938 he is hospitalized in the Colony Juliano Moreira after a mystical delirium. With the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, his pilgrimage began in search of the divine and the cataloging of the universe.