24/04 Brazilian Film – Free – ‘A Novela das 8’ (Prime Time Soap).

29 Mar, 2013

‘Cineclub Brazil ’ presents ‘A Novela das 8’ (Prime Time Soap).
The screening will be followed by Q&A session with the film’s director Odilon Rocha.

FILM SUMMARY
Brazil, 1978, a group of people live their lives under the dictatorship, the euphoria of disco fever and the fantasy of “Dancin’ Days”, a prime time soap, which fictional drama is set on the homonymous night club in Rio de Janeiro. After a fatal incident, Amanda and Dora (a high-class prostitute addicted to the TV drama, and her “maid”) are forced to run away from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro with the fed Brandão in hot pursuit. While the excitement of visiting the disco “Dancin’ Days” distracts Amanda from the danger of the situation she is in, Dora gets ready to confront her secret past. In a six degrees of separation manner, their destine will cross with João Paulo, a diplomat who feels like a foreigner in his own country, the revolutionary Vicente and his brother Pedro, and the teenager Caio, who was raised by his grandparents and counts with the support of his friend Mônica as he struggles to be accepted as a gay man. Both youngster are crazy about disco fever and fascinated by …

AWARDS: Best Screenplay – Rio International Film Festival 2011 | Best film – GLBT Torino Film Festival 2012 | Best Film (Audience Choice), Best Actress (Claudia Ohana & Vanessa Giácomo) – Queer Lisboa 2012 | Oficial Selection – Seattle Film Festival, Australian Human Right Art and Film Festival 2012, Jermesons Dublin Film Festival 2013 and Glasgow Film Festival 2013.

2011 | 90 minutes | Drama | Certificate: 14 | Portuguese with English subtitles

For more information on this film please visit www.culturalbrazil.org