Cine Mambembe: Cinema Discovers Brazil (1999)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 56M
Director : Laís Bodanzky, Luiz Bolognesi
Writer : Luiz Bolognesi
Synopsis
Laís Bodanzky and Luiz Bolognesi travel around the small cities of Brazil, exhibiting short films in public squares. From the south of Bahia to the farthest parts of Amazon, this documentary discovers a country that watches a movie and sees itself on the screen for the very first time, in the turning of the 21st century. What’s seen and heard is truly surprising.
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