Screening and Debate: The Second Mother by Anna Muylaert

The Second Mother (Que horas ela volta?, 2015) 
April 7th, 2016 @ 7pm

Directed by Anna Muylaert (Best Film at Berlin Film Festival and Brazilian entry to Oscar)
With Regina Casé (Best Actress at Sundance Festival)
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray. It's a story about two women, of two different generations shown by an outstanding performance of two actresses. The director easily overcomes the distance between audience and screen simply throughout their enormous empathy for the struggle between work and worries about their family.

Introduction and post-screening debate with Simone Bohn, Associate Professor of Sociology, York University.

In Portuguese with English Subtitles

Doors open at 6:30 pm and the session begins at 7 pm
Admission is FREE on a first come first serve basis

MODERATOR

Simone Bohn is an associate professor of political science at York University. Her teaching and research interests include Political parties, political development, and economy, women and politics in Latin America.

MOSTRA of Portuguese Cinema

Flores Raras @ Media Commons

Reaching for the moon (Flores Raras, Brazil, 2013) Directed by Bruno Barreto

Q&A with Hudson Moura

DATE: Monday, December 1

LOCAL:  University of Toronto Media Commons, Room 1

130 St George St, 3rd Floor

TIME:  5:00 p.m.

LANGUAGE: English and Portuguese

It is 1951. New York poet Elizabeth Bishop is looking for new inspiration for her work. She travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet. Based on the true love story of  Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Initial hostilities make way for a complicated yet long-lasting love affair that dramatically alters Bishop’s relationship to the world around her.

In Vanda’s Room @ Media Commons Theatre

Luso-Brazilian Film Screenings: Diaspora & Exile @ the Media Commons Theatre presents

In Vanda’s Room

(No Quarto da Vanda, Portugal, 2000)

Directed by Pedro Costa

Introduced by Kass Banning (Cinema Studies Institute)

PLACE: Media Commons Theatre (Robarts Library, 3rd Floor)

DATE: November 27, 2014

TIME: 6:30 p.m.

With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, Pedro Costa’s In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte. French philosopher Jacques Rancière identifies in the film a force that lies in the tensions between the settings of a miserable life and its inherent aesthetic possibilities: Pedro Costa “films are about a situation seemingly at the heart of the political issues of today: the fate of the exploited, of people who have come from afar, from former colonies in Africa, to work on Portuguese construction sites; people who have lost their families, their health, sometimes even their lives, on those sites, and who yesterday were dumped in suburban slums and subsequently moved to new homes—better lit, more modern, not necessarily more livable. There is no aestheticizing formalism or populist deference in the attention Pedro Costa pays to every beautiful form offered by the homes of the poor, and the patience with which he listens to the oftentimes trivial and repetitive words uttered in Vanda’s room […] The attention and the patience are inscribed, instead, in a different politics of art. This politics is a stranger to that politics which works by bringing to the screen the state of the world to make viewers aware of the structures of domination in place and inspire them to mobilize their energies. […] The politics here, rather, is about thinking the proximity between art and all those other forms which can convey the affirmation of a sharing [partage] or shareable [partageable] capacity.” Jacques Rancière

Language

All movies are in Portuguese with English subtitles.  Each movie will be introduced and contextualized by Luso-Brazilian studies specialists, and a Q&A session will follow each screening.

Free Admission

Admission to this event is free, but please take the time to complete our event registration form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SQsj-bbJVo76aOU42BjYsQhVdNGnLVsnXShVd74rd7I/viewform

Organizers

Hudson Moura (Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Toronto)

Fabiano Rocha (University of Toronto Libraries)

Luso-Brazilian Film Screenings: Diaspora & Exile @ the Media Commons Theatre

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese in collaboration with the University of Toronto Libraries would like to invite you to the Luso-Brazilian Film Screenings: Diaspora & Exile that will be held in the last 3 Thursdays of the month of November at the Media Commons Theatre (Robarts Library, 3rd floor).

PLACE    Media Commons Theatre (Robarts Library, 3rd Floor)
DATE    November 13, 20, and 27, 2014
TIME:    6:30pm to 9:30pm

Screening 1 (Nov 13, 2014):    Foreign Land (Terra Estrangeira, Brazil/Portugal, 1995) Directed by Walter Sales and Daniella Thomas. Introduced by João Pedro Vicente Faustino (Camões Instituto)
Screening 2 (Nov 20, 2014):    Beyond the Road (Além da Estrada, Brazil/Uruguay, 2012) Directed by Charly Braun. Introduced by Hudson Moura (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
Screening 3 (Nov 27, 2014):    In Vanda’s Room (No Quarto da Vanda, Portugal, 2000) Directed by Pedro Costa. Introduced by Kass Banning (Cinema Studies Institute)
 Language

All movies are in Portuguese with English subtitles. Each movie will be introduced and contextualized by Luso-Brazilian studies specialists, and a Q&A session will follow each screening.

 Free Admission

Admission to this event is free, but please take the time to complete our event registration form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SQsj-bbJVo76aOU42BjYsQhVdNGnLVsnXShVd74rd7I/viewform

 Organizers

Hudson Moura (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)

Fabiano Rocha (University of Toronto Libraries)

 Contact

For further information regarding this event, please contact fabiano.rocha@utoronto.ca