In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Jorge Bodanzy appeals to the emotional memories of the period he spent studying at the University of Brasilia to show us a tableau of youth in the 1960s, with their dreams and expectations, their hardships, and interrupted projects.
A projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay about the failure of a lifetime. The scenes from the films you watched intersect with the new images they capture, fiction and reality blending together, weaving a bridge between the past and the present.
Jean-Claude Bernardet OMC (Charleroi, August 2, 1936) is a Brazilian film theorist, film critic, filmmaker and writer. Born in Belgium, he spent his childhood in Paris and as a 13-year-old departed to Brazil with his family, there he was naturalised Brazilian citizen in 1964.