10th edtion CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
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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
Marina Person | Brazil | 2015 | 90 min | Portuguese | e.s.
The year is 1984 and 17-year-old Estela (Clara Gallo) is looking forward to the journey she’s going to make to California. Her uncle Carlos lives there, a licentious music journalist. Before the summer vacation starts, the camera follows Estela in her hometown of São Paolo where, together with her girlfriends, she makes her first acquaintance with sex and drugs. In a voice-over, she confesses her secret desires, while the soundtrack with 1980s bands like The Cure and Joy Division shapes the tempo. In this way, countless cultural references from that time pass by, from the torn-off sleeves of T-shirts to the debut of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It strengthens Estela’s desires for America, the land of MTV. At the same time, in the background we see the changing political climate in Brazil. Rapid social progress goes by fits and starts. When her dream vacation is endangered, it turns out there’s a good reason for that.
Place: CINEMA 4
Date: 7 April 2016
Time: 19:30
Duration: 1:30
Place: CINEMA 4
Date: 8 April 2016
Time: 17:30
Duration: 1:30
Place: CINEMA 4
Date: 9 April 2016
Time: 13:15
Duration: 1:30
Year in
Festival
2016
Director
Marina Person
Camera
Cast
Clara Gallo
Caio Blat
Caio Horowicz
Livia Gijon
Paulo Miklos
Virginia Cavendish
Giovanni Gallo
Country
Brazil
Editor
Bernardo Barcellos
Language
Portuguese
Length
90 min
Producer
Gustavo Rosa de Moura
Production Company
Mira Filmes
Production Design
Ana Mara Abreu
Sales
Films Boutique
Scenario
Marina Person
Mariana Veríssimo
Francisco Guarnieri
Sound Design
Daniel Turini
Fernando Henna
Year of Production
2015
Website
Marina PERSON (1969, Brazil) graduated in Film Studies at the University of São Paulo. After graduating she started working as an actress and television presenter. In 2007 her directorial debut Person (2007) was released, a documentary about her father, Luís Sérgio Person, who died when she was seven years old. Califórnia (2015) is her first fiction feature.
Filmography
Person (2007, doc), Califórnia (2015)