- at 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
FREE ADMISSION
Truck driver travelling along the Transamazonic Road, a huge highway in Brazil that crosses the Amazon forest, meets a prostitute and slowly becomes aware of the problems in that region. Iracema is an amazing film that discloses the truth about the development of Amazonas, reason why the censorship of the dictatorship has not allowed its exhibition in movie theaters for many years. In the 1970's, the Brazilian military dictatorship opened a highway though the Amazon forest and the official speech was that this road would bring development to the area settling landless peasants. However, what this movie denounces is the beginning of the announced ecological disaster through the uncontrolled burning of the forest and illegal extraction of wood; slave work; infantile prostitution; corruption. The screenplay and the shootings uses the improvisations of the gifted actor Paulo César Peréio, who interacts with the locals, blending reality with fiction, a sort of "fictional documentary" directed by Jorge Bodansky and Orlando Senna, filmed in direct cinema style of Pierre Perrault and cinéma vérité of Jean Rouch. (IMDB 7.1/10).
PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
Introduction and post-screening debate with Eduardo Souza Rodrigues, Assistant Professor at the Economics Department at the University of Toronto. His research concentrate on Environmental Economics specialized on the Amazon region. (http://eduardo-souzarodrigues.com/?page_id=10)
Brazil Film Series is a partnership between the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto, the Consulate General of Brazil in Toronto, the Rio Film Commission (RFC), and the University of Toronto Libraries, which aims to promote the Brazilian culture and to acknowledge the Portuguese language in line with the directives of the Cultural Department of the Ministry of the External Relations of Brazil. This showcase is addressed to those who, in Toronto, are interested in Brazil, aiming not only at the academic community but also at the community at large. Each film will be shown with English subtitles (exceptions will be noted) and it will be introduced by a guest speaker. This showcase will be running every first Thursday of the month until April 2016. )
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