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Brazil is very popular these days. The South American country hosted the World Cup last summer, and it’s preparing to host the Olympics next year. This Friday, the Museum of the Moving Image catches this wave with O Brazil: Contemporary Brazilian Cinema, a series that will screen three contemporary films made in a country where the movie scene is booming.

The thread that runs between these movies is music, as they all feature tremendous soundtracks as well as Portuguese dialogue with English subtitles. Here’s a short description.

  • After the Rain screens on May 8 at 7 pm.  It is 1984, and the city of Salvador de Bahia is preparing for Brazil’s first presidential elections after years of dictators. As his school holds council elections, the 16-year-old protagonist’s political awakening begins, as he shifts from a critical outsider to a vocal participant.
  • She Comes Back on Thursday screens on May 22 at 7 pm. For this film, the director, André Novais Oliveira, asked his brother and aging parents to play themselves as he shot their day-to-day lives, trying to find the reason for his parents’ separation after 35 years of marriage. 
  • Brazilian Western screens on June 19 at 7 pm. Call it a romantic crime flick. Set in Brasilia at the end of the 1980s, this film blends Brazilian folk storytelling and modern cinema technology to chronicle the saga of an outlaw.

Details: After the Rain, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Avenue, Kaufman Arts District, $12/$9 for seniors and students/$6 for children (ages 3-12).

More details: She Comes Back on Thursday, May 22, 7 pm.

More details: Brazilian Western, June 19, 7 pm.

Photo: Museum of the Moving Image


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