AFF: Macabro (Macabre)
Austin Film Festival presents: Macabro (Macabre), a film by Marcos Prado
Friday, October 25th, 2019, 9:30pm
Galaxy Highland
6700 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX 78752
Monday, October 28th, 2019, 9:00pm
Alamo Drafthouse Village
2700 W Anderson Ln, Austin, TX 78757
Synopsis: Inspired by a true story of brutal murders in the 90s, a police sergeant is caught between a broken justice system and his own past as he hunts down a pair of homicidal brothers through the forests of Brazil. Screenwriters: Lucas Paraizo & Rita Gloria Curvo.
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival co-presents this program in partnership with the Austin Film Festival.
AFS: O Homem do Pau-Brasil (Brazilwood Man)
Austin Film Society presents: O Homem do Pau-Brasil (Brazilwood Man), directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Thursday, June 28th, 2018, 7:30 PM
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100, Austin, TX 78752
Synopsis: De Andrade’s final film is sure to leave even the most well-versed student of Brazilian culture in the dark. Much like “Ulysses” however, it can be enjoyed and appreciated even without a full understanding of the satirical references or Portuguese language puns. Constructed around the ideas of poet and political theorist Oswald de Andrade (no relation), it is a series of collage-like fragments connected by a monologue of Oswald’s words, ending with words that may constitute a fittingly rude epitaph to Joaquim’s work, “Go fuck yourself, you shithead revolutionaries.”
AFS: Guerra Conjugal (Conjugal Warfare)
Austin Film Society presents: Guerra Conjugal (Conjugal Warfare), directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Wednesday, June 20th, 2018, 7:30 PM
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100, Austin, TX 78752
Synopsis: De Andrade takes aim at the Brazilian middle class by directing his camera at their bedrooms. This sex comedy is more than meets the eye. Modeled on the very popular pornochanchada trend of the time, de Andrade, as usual, is interested in the ways that attitudes about social class, race, and other factors are exposed in the arena of sex.
AFS: Os Inconfidentes (The Conspirators)
Austin Film Society presents: Os Inconfidentes (The Conspirators), directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Thursday, June 14th, 2018, 7:30 PM
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100, Austin, TX 78752
Synopsis: The wild swings and crazy canvas of MACUNAIMA (1969) gave way to a direct and deeply subversive narrative of a historical Brazilian uprising in the 1972 film OS INCONFIDENTES (THE CONSPIRATORS). In 1789 a group of landowners, intellectuals and others, inspired by the American Revolution, rose up against Portuguese occupiers. Here, de Andrade drew the ire of the political regime, with his thinly veiled critique of contemporary military dictatorship.