LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY (O SERTÃO DAS MEMÓRIAS)
(Brazil, 1996 101 min. PORTUGUESE)

Wednesday, October 29 Thursday, October 30	2:15 pm 11:45 am
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"Araújo's debut feature crystallizes the raw materials of his native Sertão (Brazil's drought-ridden northeast) into an allegory so riveting it resembles cinema verité made by an all-seeing god. In the film's mythic present, (a) heroic pair manage to evade the nefarious 'dragon' and reach the promised land... (the film) etches a spiritual x-ray of northeastern Brazil onto our retinas with black-and-white clarity. Part religious allegory, part political history, part autobiography..." -B. Ruby Rich BEST LATIN AMERICAN FILM, Sundance Film Festival 1997; WOLFGANG STAUDTE PRIZE and OPENING FILM, International Forum of New Cinema, Berlin Film Festival 1997; JURY AWARD, Recontres Cinémas D'Amérique Latine De Toulouse, France; GRAND JURY AWARD and AUDIENCE AWARD, 7th Cine Ceara Festival, Foraleza, Brazil. DIR José Araújo PROD José Araújo, Michelle Valladares SCR José Araújo DP Antonio Luiz Mendes PROD DES Flor Punk ED Ismael Saavedra CAST Antero Marques Araújo, Maria Emilea Pinto, Ednardo Braga, Father Juvemar Matos, Walter Filho FILMOGRAPHY: LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY is José Araújo's directorial debut.

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