The first two films to pass on this third day of the festival, at 2.30 pm, are Futures Market by Mercedes Alvarez (Culturgest’s Small Auditorium), a documentary brilliantly composed with an environment of extraordinary art by Michelangelo and a post-modern composition of spaces which opens with the abandonment and demolition of an old house, and Beauty by Carolin Schmitz (Screening Room 1 of Cinema Londres), which brings together a series of interviews with several people who share a common denominator: plastic surgery.
The session World Pulse Shorts 2 takes place in São Jorge Cinema’s Screening Room 3, at 4 pm. International Competition Shorts 4 will be screened at 5.15 pm in Culturgest’s Small Auditorium and National Competition Shorts 2 in the Large Auditorium at 6.15 pm.
Screening in Londres Cinema, Screening Room 2, at 6.45 pm, Rua Aperana 52 by Julio Bressane, last year’s Independent Hero, is a musical landscape on a street corner in Rio, which uses photographs taken by Bressane’s parents and from his own films, covering a period of nearly a century fiction. “Aperana” means “wrong road”. A fiction about a fiction.Totem by Jessica Krummacher (Film London, Room 2, at 21.15) tells the story of young Fiona, 23-years-old, hired by a German family as a maid because of the unstable emotional state of Claudia, the mother of family.
At 9.30 pm, at Culturgest’s Large Auditorium the end of the world happens with Abel Ferrara’s 4:44 Last Day on Earth. Shanyn Leigh and Willem Dafoe are the protagonist couple, who accept the end of their days, but choose to enjoy the last moments their own way.