Adelina Pontual Trailers
Passages: Travelling In and Out of Film Through Brazilian Geography Trailer
Adelina Pontual was born in Recife, graduated in Social Communication from UFPE and in Cinema, with a Specialization in Editing, from Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV, in San Antonio de Los Baños, in Cuba. She was part of the group Vanretrô, formed during her Communication course in the 80s. In the 90s she was a partner in the production company Parabólica Brasil, together with Cláudio Assis and Marcelo Gomes. She is a director and screenwriter of short films and television programs, and her first work as a feature film director was with the documentary Rio Doce / CDU. She also works as a continuity writer, having performed this role in more than 20 Brazilian feature films.
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21 October 2019
Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio and television, functions as a 'passage' to political and social reality.
11 April 2003
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people.
04 June 2015
After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo.
01 January 1989
A short film about Cuban women, post-revolution.
23 January 2013
A day in the life of a woman, who upon turning 53, decides to rethink her life, confront herself and the image she has created of herself over the years.
01 January 1999
In an old mansion, an old lady and her young goddaughter prepare to receive a mysterious visitor who will fulfill an old wish.
01 January 1991
Inspired by songs by Arrigo Barnabé, the film tells the story of a young man who was the victim of a scientific experiment on a TV network.
25 August 2005
A middle-class family living in a house filled with superfluous electronic appliances see the arrival of a new item, a 29" TV-set.
01 January 2005
On the outskirts of the city of Nossa Senhora da Glória, in the hinterland of the state of Sergipe, Northeast Brazil, we will find an unexpected open-air sculpture park.
