ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!-- saved from url=(0040)http://www.thepharostrust.org/ondine.htm --> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>BCM_Lecture</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2180" name=GENERATOR> <style> <!-- h1 {margin-bottom:.0001pt; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial Narrow"; font-weight:bold; margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:0cm} h6 {margin-top:12.0pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-weight:bold} h5 {margin-top:12.0pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0cm; font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic} --> </style> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <CENTER> <TABLE cellSpacing=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="343"> <img border="0" src="Girls%20from%20ABC.jpg" width="314" height="195"><BR></TD> <TD width="670"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><FONT face=Arial> BRAZILIAN CULTURE MONTH</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><br> </FONT></span></b><FONT face=Arial size=2> <BR></FONT><b><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2">THIRD BRAZILIAN FILM FESTIVAL<br> </font></span></font></b><FONT face=Arial size=2> <b><span lang="EN-GB"> <br> </span></b></FONT><font color="#F74921"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">2 </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt"> </span> <span style="font-size: 10.0pt">18 </span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt">October</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt">, 2006</span></font></b><FONT face=Arial size=2><b><span lang="EN-GB"><br> <br> </span></b></FONT></font><b><font face="Arial"> <font color="#F74921"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt">ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation<br> </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt">64 Ayion Omologiton Avenue,<br> 1080, Nicosia<br> </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">¤</span></font><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#F74921">el: 22445455<br> Fax: </font> <span style="color: #F74921">22818128</span></span><span style="color: #F74921; font-size: 10.0pt" lang="FR"><br> Email: </span> <span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: #333333"> <a style="color: #F74921; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="mailto:info@artosfoundation.org"> info@artosfoundation.org</a></span><font color="#F74921"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; "><br> </span></font><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: #333333"> <a style="color: #F74921; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.artosfoundation.org"> www.artosfoundation.org</a></span></font></b></TD> <TR> <TD colSpan=2> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><b><font size="2"><br> <br> ¤</font><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2">he Pharos Trust is presenting the Third Brazilian Film Festival, organized in the context of the Brazilian Culture Month, <br> with the screening of six films around the theme of&nbsp; </font> </span><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2">«</font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2">Women in Brazilian Society</font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2">»</font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2">.</font></span></b></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font size="2" face="Arial">The films will be projected throughout the month of October - </font></span><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt">All screenings start at </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt">8:00</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt">pm - </span></font></b><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: 700">All films are in Portuguese with English subtitles.<br> &nbsp;</span></font></p> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD colspan="2"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt">MONDAY OCTOBER 2</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt"> </span></font></b> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;</span></p> <pre style="line-height: 14.4pt; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Courier New; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">A Pessoa e Para o que Nasce/ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black">Born to be Blind </span></b></pre> <pre style="line-height: 14.4pt; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Courier New; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Roberto Berliner, Brazil, 2005, 85</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">„</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">(Documentary)</span></pre> <pre style="line-height: 14.4pt; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Courier New; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:black">www.borntobeblind.com</span></pre> <pre style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Courier New; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Three blind sisters, linked by an extraordinary twist of fate, spend their lives singing and playing ganzá for spare change on the streets and in the markets</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">of poverty </span></pre> <pre style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Courier New; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">stricken northeast Brazil.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">This documentary follows the daily chores of these women and how they survive on their own. Their captivating story, though not without humor, </span></pre> <pre style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Courier New; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">depicts a complex tale of love and death, anguish and art. The story accompanies the unexpected turn in their lives as a result of the film; the power of cinema which </span></pre> <pre style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Courier New; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">transforms them into celebrities. Both the director and the subjects of the film face the ties that bind them, revealing the risks and seductions of the documentarian s work.</span></pre> <pre style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Courier New; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt">&nbsp;</pre> <h1><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial"> WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 4 </span></h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><b> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Um Ceu Estrelas</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black">/ </span><b> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">A Starry Sky<br> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial"> Tata Amaral</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">, Brazil, 1996, 70</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">„<br> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0305380/"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Paulo Vespúcio Garcia</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0146835/"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Leona Cavalli</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0181383/"> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Lígia Cortez</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0801492/"> <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Néa Simões</span></a>, <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0729910/"> <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Norival Rizzo</span></a>, <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0678018/"> <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Rosa Petrim</span></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Dalva is packing her suitcase to leave for Miami in search of a better life. She is abandoning her nagging mother, a passionate but chauvinistic ex-boyfriend, and a life in the doldrums. Victor, the boyfriend in question, arrives unexspectedly and forces his way in, spoiling Dalva&#39;s attempt to leave secretly. He desperately tries to persuade Dalva to take him back, and after a song and a dance she starts to give in. Still harbouring affections for him, Dalva listens to him with a mix of patience and suspicion. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Victor is a man living on the edge, out of work and looking for ways to survive: it&#39;s clear he had it easy living with Dalva. When her mother arrives and sees Victor, she orders him out of the apartment, but he lashes back and locks her in the bathroom. What started as a desperate act of reconciliation rapidly deteriorates into a kidnapping, and then to murder, rape and other acts of sickening violence as Victor strives to reassert his authority and keep Dalva in his life. As the police close in, however, Dalva strikes back. </span></p> <pre style="tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Courier New; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">&nbsp;</span></pre> <h6 style="margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">MONDAY OCTOBER </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">9 <br> &nbsp;</span></h6> <pre style="tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Courier New; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"><b>Carreiras</b> Domingos de Oliveira, Brazil, 2005, 72„ Paulo Carvalho, Domingos de Oliveira,Jorge Jerônimo Dos Santos, Fábio Floretina, Priscilla Rozenbaum Whilst snorting grams of cocaine, the attractive and well educated 40 year old Ana Laura, television anchor woman faces her &quot;long night of madness trying to break away from the  system . Her anguish is provoked at having lost her status within her television station, now being passed over by younger women. As day breaks, a surprise awaits her, making her think back to the previous chain of events. </span></pre> <p style="margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><p class="MsoHeading7" style="margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"> <b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial"> WEDNESDAY OCTOBER </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">11</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> Garotas do ABC/ Girls from ABC<br> </span></b> <span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> Carlos Reichenbach, Brazil, 2005, 130</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">„<br> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1483470/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Michelle Valle</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0023533/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Vanessa Alves</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1501695/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Natália Lorda</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1368387/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Lucielle di Camargo</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0332299/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Vanessa Goulart</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, <br> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1117676/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Fernanda Carvalho Leite</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1083443/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Marcia de Oliveira</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1099452/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Viviane Porto</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0988851/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Lina Agifu</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1533509/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Kelly di Bertolli</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0147733/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Ana Cecília</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1098323/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Mariana Loureiro</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685638/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Antonio Pitanga</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1119326/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Rocco Pitanga</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0180814/"> <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">Ângela Correa</span></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Aurélia, a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, is seeing Fábio Tavares, who gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group. </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Originally conceived as a 6 films, each separately covering the lives of each of the factory&#39;s workers. Due to the overwhelming difficulty of making films in Brazil, director &#39;Carlos Reichembach&#39; was obligated to shoot only one picture.<br> &nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700"> <font size="2" face="Arial">MONDAY OCTOBER 16 </font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.5pt"><b> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> Dia de Festa/ House- warming party<br> </span></b> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> Toni Venturi &amp; Pablo Georgieff, Brazil, 2006, </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">77 , (Documentary)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.5pt"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> Four women with similar pasts live in a country marked by great social disparities. They have in common a poor and hard working childhood in the fields. <br> They all married, had children and were abandoned by their husbands. They also left the countryside and moved to the big city in search of a better life.<br> After living in the streets of São Paulo, they encountered a social/political movement which gave them a strong reason to live. Today these women are the leaders of the MSTC Movement of the Homeless of the Centre of São Paulo, Brazil. A touching film that follows the day by day of seven simultaneous mass occupations of empty buildings seen trough the eyes of these tough, vibrant and sensitive women.<br> &nbsp;</span></p> <h5 style="margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal">WEDNESDAY OCTOBER </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal">18</span></h5> <p class="MsoNormal"><b> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> Filhas do Vento/ Daughters of the Wind<br> </span></b> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black">Joel Zito, Brazil, 2005, 85</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">„<br> </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black">Thalma de Freitas, Maria Ceica, Tais Araujo</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black">This is a film about love salvation between sisters, mothers and daughters.&nbsp; The film gathers the largest black cast in the history of Brazilian cinema and is set in a small town where the ghosts of slavery and racism underline the characters dramas in a subtle and powerful way. </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</TD></TD> </TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></BODY></HTML>