Africa-Press – Tanzania. RESUMING their normal activities with a film screening, on Wednesday, was quite appropriate for the resident Brazilian Ambassador, Antonio Augusto Martins Cesar.
This is because he sees culture as being one of the best parts of human-beings.
“It makes our lives brighter and more interesting during good times and helps us through hard times,” the Brazilian envoy said, when opening their fourth film festival, in Dar es Salaam.
Culture, he went on to expand, gives individuals strength to endure hardships and enables them to deal and digest whatever comes their way. He freely expressed his delight to see a number of people had come to see the film being screened, which marked the launch of their fourth film festival, in the country.
The embassy had not held the event last year in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, this year they partnered with the National Museum and House of Culture, in the City Centre, where all four weekly screenings are scheduled to take place. Brazilian Director Cao Hamburger’s 2011, 102-minute “Xingu” was selected to open the festival on Wednesday.
This film won the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama Audience Award. Hamburger’s countryman, Director Sérgio Machado’s 2015, 102-minute Drama “The Violin Teacher”, which won the Best Film Award at the Rio Film Festival, is scheduled for screening next Wednesday.
Director Hugo Prata’s 2016, 110-minute biography “Elis” is due to be screened the first Wednesday of December. It won awards for Best Film and Best Actress, at the Gramado Film Festival.
The festival is scheduled to close the following Wednesday with Director Lucy Walker’s 99-minute, 2010 Documentary “Waste Land”. It was given the Best Documentary Award and Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, at theSundance Film Festival.
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