ASH WEDNESDAY film and Q&A mit Bárbara Santos
The last day of Carnival is coming to an end in a favela in Rio de Janeiro where the military is constantly present and the sound of gunfire can be heard again and again. Demétria is waiting for her daughter Cora, her only child, to come home from school, but in the meantime a brutal police raid takes place in her neighborhood. As night falls and Demétria clings to the fading hope of finding her daughter, she is visited by three people in a row: a policeman, the local priest, and the governor of the state. Each plays a different role in a seemingly endless war.
2023
Length: 30 min
Language: Brazilian Portuguese with English subtitles
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BIOS:
Playwright, director, actor, author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and feminist anti-racist activist Bárbara Santos is the artistic director of the KURINGA theater space in Berlin and founder of Magdalena International -Teatro de las Oprimidas- Network in Latin America, Africa and Europe. She has developed innovative aesthetic approaches that address the intersection of gender, race and class and has written three books on the subject