10th edtion CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
FILMS 2019: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2018: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2017: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2016: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2015: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
Marisol Gómez Mouakad | Puerto Rico, Mexico | 2016 | color | DCP | 90 min | Spanish, English | e.s.
Araby starts with the young Andre, growing up close to an aluminum factory in the industrial town of Ouro Preto. Following a fatal accident in the factory, he is sent to the house of the dead factory worker, Cristiano. There, he finds a diary describing the last twenty years in the life of this hard-working man. This forms the story of Araby: Cristiano’s wanderings, adventures, love, and desperation.
Told almost entirely in voice-over, the film pulls us into the stories of Cristiano and the loners and fortune-seekers who cross his path. Life throws them few opportunities, but you can always start again somewhere new and choose whether to raise your voice or remain silent. The lives of the poverty-stricken, oppressed, hard-working people who have contributed so much to Brazil’s now-booming economy have seldom been portrayed with the freshness, inventiveness, and respect shown here.
Co-directors Uchoa and Dumans have succeeded exceptionally well in combining an epic, neo-realist biographical style with crystal-clear formalism. In their hands, the expansive hinterland of the state of Minas Gerais is brought to life like a red-and-green version of the American West (with an industrial complex here and there), appropriately supported by a country-folk soundtrack.
Place: CINEMA 4
Date: 7 April 2017
Time: 21:00
Duration: 1:13
Place: CINEMA 3
Date: 9 April 2017
Time: 18:15
Duration: 1:12
Year in
Festival
2017
Director
Affonso Uchoa, João Dumans
Camera
Leonardo Feliciano
Cast
Aristides de Sousa
Murilo Caliari
Renata Cabral
Gláucia Vandeveld
Country
Brazil
Editor
Rodrigo Lima
Luiz Pretti
Language
Portuguese
Length
96 min
Music
Francisco César
Producer
Vitor Graize
Production Company
Katásia Filmes
Production Design
Priscilla Amoni
Sales
Katásia Filmes
Scenario
João Dumans
Affonso Uchoa
Sound Design
Pedro Durães
Year of Production
2017
Affonso UCHOA (1984, Brazil) is a curator and filmmaker based in Contagem, Brazil. He has directed several films that screened and won awards at international film festivals, such as his second film The Hidden Tiger (2014). Together with João Dumans he directed Araby (2017).
João DUMANS is a screenwriter and director based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. As producer, editor, and writer he has participated in various feature films. He wrote the script of Where I Grow Old by Marília Rocha (IFFR Tiger Awards Competition 2016). His first film was Everybody Has Its Own Way (2014). He previously collaborated with Affonso Uchoa on The Hidden Tiger (2014).
Filmography
Uchoa: Desígnio (2009, short), Afternoon Woman (2010), A Vizinhança do Tigre/The Hidden Tiger (2014), Arábia/Araby (2017) Dumans: Todo mundo tem sua cachaça/Everybody Has Its Own Way (short, 2014), Arábia/Araby (2017)