Film & Cinema: Latin America and Spain

Alcantara family is a close encounter with an extended family, whose origins refer to the Congo River basin in Africa. Through generations, continue preserving its history, maintained by centuries of oral tradition, traditional customs and practices from Africa. The film demonstrates how fragments of memory can provide historical and spiritual connections to become a source of cultural resistance and identity for the people of african descent.

Includes as a PDF file: Teoria musical by Paulo Zuben

Santiago Badariotti Merlo was the butler for the parents and family of director João Moreira Salles for thirty years. He was also an eccentric man, a lover of film, theater, music and history. In 1992, when Santiago has retired, João Moreira Salles decides to make a film about him. He films him, but never edits the movie. In 2005 he returns to work on the unfinished film and discovers reflections of his own life in Santiago's memories.

A powerful, award-winning examination of the tragic series of events that followed a desperate bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro in 2000 that turned deadly when a SWAT team took evasive action against the drug-addled hijacker.
Notes:Originally released as a motion picture in 2002.

Brazilian terrorists, in an effort to draw attention to their country's oppressive military regime, kidnap the American ambassador to Brazil.

A soulful look into the lives of four women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Detrmined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, they learn that out of struggle comes strength and the courage to continue on.