The Trial consists of two hours of footage, closely following the heavily broadcasted process that led to Dilma’s removal from the Brazilian senate. Received with applause in Berlin, the feature film by Maria Augusta Ramos, portrays the strategy built by the defense team of the former Brazilian head of state, accused of meddling with public accounts. Without any narration or interviews, the film works as an historical document that reveals the behind-the-scenes talks, political meetings and the polarization of public opinion about the removal of the first female president of Brazil.
The premiere of The Trial will happen at IndieLisboa, which will be attended by the director who, not only will be presenting the film, but will also participate in a talk about the relationship between cinema, politics and freedom. At the Por um cinema que dá mais força à Liberdade talk, João Salaviza, Marco Martins, Maria Augusta Ramos, Rüdiger Suchsland will talk about the different forms of representation of politics in Film, how this can raise questions and address social injustices and political turbulences. May 3rd (17h), at Palácio Galveias.
In order to increase our critical eye and the connection of cinema with the surrounding world, IndieLisboa’s selection of films will integrate other titles that deal with the historical archives of world politics. From the analysis of Romania’s historical responsibility in the Holocaust of Dead Nation (by Radu Jude), to the unpacified history of the Nazi persecutions of Four Parts of a Folding Screen (by Anthea Kennedy and Ian Wiblin) and the analysis of the propagandist techniques of the films made during the Third Reich of Hitler’s Hollywood (of Rüdiger Suchsland). On a more current side of the program, we have the portrait of the only open prison in France of In the Open (Guillaume Massart) and the stories of the ever controversial Area 51, in the homonym short film by Annabelle Amoros, and the uprising that took place in the Attica prison in 1971, in the film Evidence of the Evidence (Alexander Johnston). Il Risoluto (Giovanni Donfrancesco) is also one of the works in the international competition of feature films, which shows us a testimony in first person about the action of Decima MAS, one of the most violent militias of Italian fascism.
Exibições Filmes | Datas
The Trial
May 1st, 18h30, Cinema São Jorge MDO
May 6th, 19h00, Cinema São Jorge MDO
Dead Nation
May 1st, 17h00, Cinema São Jorge 3
May 6th, 18h00, Cinema Ideal
Four Parts of a Folding Screen
April 27th, 18h45, Cinema São Jorge 3
May 6th, 17h00, Cinema São Jorge 3
Hitler’s Hollywood
May 5th, 15h30, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Félix Ribeiro
In the Open
April 27th, 18h30, Culturgest PA
May 6th, 14h30, Culturgest PA
Area 51, Nevada, USA
May 3rd, 21h45, Culturgest PA
May 5th, 16h30, Culturgest PA
Evidence of the Evidence
May 3rd, 21h45, Culturgest PA
May 5th, 16h30, Culturgest PA
Il Risoluto
April 28th, 18h45, Culturgest PA
1 de Maio, 14h30, Culturgest PA