Film

Captains of the Sands

D: Cecília Amado

Sun, Nov 18, 2012
1 pm
Admission: 5€, concessions 3€
Capitães de areia (Captains of the Sands), © Promo

R: Cecília Amado, Brazil 2011, 96 min, English subtitles

A film inspired by Samba and photos by Verger, to the music of Carlinhos Brown: A gang of street children in the Salvador da Bahia of the 1950s. They steal, gamble and dance – and dream of love and a better life. Suddenly, their closely-knit community is confronted with a deadly illness. And when a girl joins the gang, their world is thrown into chaos. A skillful adaptation of the novel by Jorge Amado, the grand master of Brazilian literature, directed by his grand-daughter.