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Return contemporary Brazilian cinema Puertas de Castilla (13/11/2009)

On Monday 16, Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 November, after 21 hours in the auditorium doors will be screened Carandiru Castilla, domestic film and fish are marked, three contemporary Brazilian films in collaboration with the Embassy of Brazil in Spain.

For the third consecutive year, Castilla doors brings the most known Brazilian films, betting on a film that moves at the limits of the most marginal of commercial cinema and commercial cinema as marginal.

This cycle will focus on the thin line dividing fact from fiction, films that approach to documentary, to test and bioficción.

The varied subject matter and brings us closer to social reality of the prisoners in huge jails in Latin America, domestic workers and the political activism of workers and strikers.

Brazil is one of the biggest bets of s XXI film and its filmmakers echo the harsh reality of his country and its borders, so suggestive that they become universal social concerns.

Monday, November 16 to 21 hours

Carandiru

2003.

Brazil.

Hector Babenco. 141 min.

Overwhelming representation of Latin America's largest prison, the House of Detention in Sao Paulo.

The story is slightly adapted from the book Estacao Carandiru. Carandiru is a microcosm of the contradictions of Brazilian commercial cinema, ranging from successful social description and the concessions to lewd and stark.

Selected for the official section of Cannes Film Festival

Tuesday, November 17 to 21 hours

Domestic or film

2001.

Brazil.

Fernando Meirelles.

90 min.

A bitter comedy about five Brazilian maids very original express their misfortunes and fortunes.

The duality between fiction and documentary genre gives way to laughter choking thick questions arising between the maids and unusual situations that express the dreams of some girls who suffer and work.

The film received a huge number of Brazilian and international awards and was the beginning of a golden era for Meirelles has been extended to The Constant Gardener and the film adaptation of Blindness by José Saramago

Wednesday, November 18 to 21 hours

Pe OES (Metalworkers)

2004. Brazil.

Eduardo Coutinho. 84 min.

Coutinho interviewed workers who participated in the strikes of São Paulo between 1979-1980 in the ABC region, known for its mining and metallurgical industry.

Lula da Silva, the man who would become president of Brazil in 2002, was the one who promoted the union of these workers.

The film offers a fascinating document of this movement, its leaders, and the origins of local political activism.

It premiered at the MoMA in New York

Source: Puertas de Castilla

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