BAHIA DE TODOS OS SANTOS
Dir. Trigueirinho Neto, 1961
100 min, Brazil
In Portuguese with English subtitles.

SATURDAY MAY 14 – 7:30pm
FRIDAY MAY 20 – 10:00pm - (Q&A With Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer)
SUNDAY MAY 29 – 7:30pm

One of the classical precursors of the Cinema Novo movement, Trigueirinho Neto’s Bahia de Todos os Santos tells the story of a young man, Tônio, who runs away from home to live with petty criminals on the beach. When his gang kills a policeman during a workers strike, they are forced into hiding and begin contemplating ways to escape Bahia and avoid imprisonment.

Screening with:

UM DIA NA RAMPA
Dir. Luiz Paulino dos Santos, 1960
10min, Brazil
In Portuguese with English subtitles.

Um Dia na Rampa explores a day on the market ramp of the Mercado Modelo in Salvador, Bahia, where saveiros arrive returning from the Recôncavo Baiano with products for trade in the capital. Traditions of capoeira, candomblé and other customs are presented throughout the course of this 1955 film.