The 24th International Environmental Film and Video Festival (FICA) announces the films selected for competitive screenings. National and international short and feature films will compete in three categories: Washington Novaes International Exhibition; Mostra do Cinema Goiano and Mostra Becos da Minha Terra, which shows productions from the City of Goiás.
FICA also opened registrations for the selection of lecturers for training activities on environmental preservation and also for the selection of local artists from the city of Goiás to carry out artistic and cultural presentations during the 24th International Environmental Film and Video Festival ( HE IS). Registration is free and must be made by May 24th, exclusively by filling out and sending an online form, available at the link: https://fica.go.gov.br/.
FICA will be held between the 13th and 18th of June 2023, in the city of Goiás. Promoted by the Government of Goiás, through the State Secretariat for Culture (Secult), co-organized by the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), through Through the Educational Radio and Television Foundation (FRTVE), the event also has a partnership with the State Secretariat for Resumption, Goiás Social, State University of Goiás (UEG), Federal Institute of Goiás (UFG), Social Service of Commerce (Sesc ) and City Hall of the city of Goiás.
Selected Films
SHOW WASHINGTON NOVAES
For the Washington Novaes International Exhibition, six feature films and eight short films were selected, six foreign films and eight Brazilian films, including three productions from Goiás.
International films come from six different countries on three continents: Canada, the United States, Switzerland, Morocco, Belgium and France. Brazilian films arrive from five different states: Goiás, São Paulo, Amazonas, Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso and include two films by directors from two indigenous communities: Yanomami and Kuikuro. In terms of genre, there are 10 documentaries, two experimental, one fiction and one film that is categorized as fiction and experimental.
Five members of the Washington Novaes Exhibition Selection Committee were selected by public notice and two were nominated by partner institutions in organizing FICA 2023, the Goiás State Culture Council and the Goiás State University.
They were: director and visual artist Benedito Ferreira, from Goiânia (GO), director Cássio Kelm, from São Paulo (SP), teacher and photographer Juliane Peixoto, from Brasília (DF), producer and director Fernando Segtowick, from Belém (PA), professor Georgia Cynara, from Goiânia, director Santiago Dellape, from Brasília (DF) and professor and writer Solemar Oliveira, from Anápolis (GO).
Training actions
Training actions on environmental preservation may take the form of a short course or workshop, provided for in the Work Plan for carrying out FICA 2023. Projects proposed by individuals or legal entities, resident or headquartered in the State of Goiás, may participate. selection participant will only be considered registered after submitting the duly completed form online and accompanied by a list of documents.
UFG and the RTVE Foundation will be responsible for nominating three members who will join the Selection Committee for proposals for training actions on environmental preservation. The Commission is responsible for receiving, analyzing and selecting the works. Four training action projects on environmental preservation will be selected.
Artistic and cultural activities
Projects proposed by individuals or legal entities, the latter, whose field of activity – code of registered economic activity – is compatible and pertinent to the object may participate in the selection of local artists from the city of Goiás to carry out artistic and cultural presentations during the 24th FICA. of hiring. Only artistic and cultural projects that were produced and/or performed by artists residing in the City of Goiás, with proof of residence, may participate in this program.
In total, 75 places will be offered for artistic and cultural activities in various forms. These include musical performances, circus performances, carnival events, popular culture festivities, capoeira demonstrations, poetry vocals, theater, dance, storytelling, book launches or presentations, craft fairs, gastronomy fairs and arts fairs. visuals.
The Municipal Culture Council of the City of Goiás will be responsible for nominating five members to join the Curatorship Committee for proposals from local artists. This Committee will receive, analyze and select the artistic works, as well as check the documentation required for hiring.
SELECTED FILMS
Feature films:
Adrian Cowell 50 years in Brazil
Brazil (GO), Documentary, 103 minutes, 2023
Director: Vicente Rios Year: 2023
Synopsis:
The feature film summarizes some of the main national and international events, through its protagonists and antagonists, under the eyes of Adrian Cowell and his teams of documentary filmmakers who recorded for 50 years the transformations that took place in the Brazilian Amazon, with its social, environmental, political, cultural.
The invention of the Other
Brazil (SP/AM), Documentary, 144 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Bruno Jorge
Synopsis:
In 2019, Funai carried out the largest expedition in recent decades in the Amazon to try to find and establish the first contact with a group of isolated indigenous people of the Korubo ethnic group in a vulnerable state and also promote a delicate reunion with part of the family that had already been in contact a few years ago. before.
Aya
Belgium/France, Documentary, 90 minutes, 2021
Director: Sébastien Andres, Alice Lemaire
Synopsis:
Aya is growing up with her mother on the island of Lahou. Cheerful and carefree, she likes to collect coconuts and sleep on the sand. However, their paradise is doomed to disappear underwater. As the waves threaten her home, Aya makes a decision: the sea level may rise, but she won't leave her island.
Fragments from Heaven
Morocco, Documentary, 84 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Adnane Baraka
Synopsis:
Looking for rocks in the immensity of the Moroccan desert may seem absurd. Unless they are celestial stones, with the power to change the lives of whoever finds them. Mohamed – the nomad – and Abderrahmane – the scientist – scour the arid lands in search of meteorites, each with their own reasons.
I reject
Brazil (SP/MG), Documentary, 75 minutes, 2023
Directed by: Pedro de Fillippis
Synopsis:
After the biggest tailings dam failures in history, new dams threaten to fail on millions of people in Minas Gerais. A state environmental advisor confronts the modus operandi of the government and mining companies, while residents resist in their threatened communities.
OSTROV – Lost Island
Switzerland, Documentary, 91 minutes, 2021
Director: Svetlana Rodina, Laurent Stoop
Synopsis:
On the island of Ostrov, in the Caspian Sea, the inhabitants, forgotten by the Russian state after the collapse of the Soviet Union, survive by poaching. Ivan regularly goes out to sea risking his life and freedom. In addition to the political aspect, the film's empathetic vision also paints a moving family portrait of its protagonists, who cling to a sense of hope in their family and community. The strong audiovisual approach that captures the island's natural beauty highlights the film's cinematic potential.
Short and Medium Films:
On the edge of Rio das Almas
Brazil (GO), Fiction/Experimental, 16 minutes, 2023
Directed by: Taize Inácia dos Santos
Synopsis:
On the banks of Rio das Almas, in Pirenópolis (GO), real events are brought to light through Joanna and, from there, stories of black people intersect in a temporal ellipse.
Arrorro
Brazil (GO), Experimental, 9 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Rafael de Almeida
Synopsis:
In Spain, the eruption of the La Palma volcano forces hundreds of families to abandon their homes. A Colombian refugee takes advantage of the chaos and occupies an empty house on the island.
Until
Canada, Experimental, 21 minutes, 2021
Director: Marie Fages
Synopsis:
Sahar tirelessly explores volcanic landscapes to find a rare mineral. But what she discovers shakes her research, her connection with the atmosphere and our Milky Way.
Continuum
USA, Documentary, 7 minutes, 2023
Director:: Rowan Ings, Sruti Visweswaran
Synopsis:
California's spring moon is marked by the annual transport of bees from across the country to pollinate millions of almond trees in the Central Valley. Filmed over the course of a lunar cycle, Continuum shows how wind, water, bees and soil meet human hands and industry to create a portrait of modern agriculture.
Curupira and the Machine of Destiny
France/Brazil, Fiction, 25 minutes, 2021
Directed by: Janaina Wagner
Synopsis:
Filmed in 2021 on the Transamazônica, BR-319 roads and in the real village of Realidade, in the south of the Amazon, Curupira and the Machine of Destiny is the meeting between the entity Curupira, a demon queer who protects the forests of Brazil, and the incarnated ghost of Iracema, a 14-year-old prostitute.
Forest Fever
Brazil (MT), Documentary, 9 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Takumã Kuikuro
Synopsis:
The shaman and his family go fishing. While fishing, a jaguar approaches and starts screaming in fear looking for help. Your scream is a warning. The shaman immediately returns to the village and warns his people of the approaching danger. He seeks spiritual strength in pajelança as his concern grows. The fire invades the forest and the animals flee in search of shelter, but many cannot resist and die. The forest burns and then the drought is extreme.
Thuë pihi kuuwi – A Woman Thinking
Brazil (AM), Documentary, 9 minutes, 2023
Director: Aida Harika Yanomami, Edmar Tokorino Yanomami, Roseane Yariana Yanomami
Synopsis:
A Yanomami woman watches a shaman while preparing Yãkoana, food for the spirits. Based on the narrative of a young indigenous woman, Yãkoana, who feeds the Xapiri and allows shamans to enter the world of spirits, it also proposes a meeting of perspectives and imaginations.
Zug Island
Canada, Documentary, 22 minutes, 2022
Director: Nicolas Lachapelle
Synopsis:
Situated between Windsor and Detroit, the Zug Island industrial complex produces a mysterious hum called the “Windsor Hum.” A sound technician travels to the location to find your source. Along the way, he meets people affected by the impenetrable island's growing consequences.
Goiano Cinema Exhibition
The Selection Committee for the Cinema Goiano and Becos da Minha Terra exhibitions was selected through a public notice and was made up of actress and filmmaker Danny Barbosa, from João Pessoa (PB), screenwriter Hermes Leal, from São Paulo (SP) and the production company Karina Paz, from Salvador (BA).
afro x
Experimental, 11 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Gleyde Lopes, Flávys Guimarães
Synopsis:
Afro X is a short scenic investigation film based on the mythology of the orixás with urban dances. The interest in this process is not only in using the elements and archetypes of orixás and urban dances, but also in investigating new possibilities for thinking about a dance with black identity. The relationship between these two languages occurs through Dancehall and Oxum, focusing on sensuality and lightness of movements. Hip Hop Dance and Ogum in which symbolic confrontation and movements with muscle tone meet in this connection. Vogue and Iansã, concentrating the movements on the arms and turns. All the junctions seek to bring this imagination of what these archetypes can be like in people and in their daily lives. afro x is the name given to these links. X could be the result of an equation in which trajectory and personal search are added or multiplied in the process of discovery and invention of my black body in dance. Urban Dances + Orixás * Creation + Identity = X.
grandma
Documentary, 4 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Lucas Mendes
Synopsis:
grandma tells the story of a reunion that is not in the here and now, it is a reunion of generations that permeates issues of belonging, race, masculinity and presents a proposal to retell the stories of a black, peripheral family, from two generational points . Grandfather (Erculano Ribeiro) and grandson (Lucas Mendes). Killing yesterday's bird with a stone that was only thrown today is recreating in the now the possibilities exterminated for the black population throughout history in the not-so-distant past. grandma talks about negotiation through our affective memories of humanity that is non-negotiable.
Dance Funk!
Documentary, 30 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Susan Maria da Graça Castro dos Santos
Synopsis:
Funk dance emerges from black bodies in Brazilian outskirts, with passinho dos malokas (SP) and passinho foda (RJ) as two of its ramifications. These cultural manifestations are permeated by ancestral knowledge originating from the African diaspora. The documentary Dance Funk!, directed by Susan Santos, observes funk from the perspective of dance as a teaching potential for teachers, as well as having the social responsibility of articulating law 10.639/2003 regarding the teaching of the history of black and Afro-diasporic culture for Brazilian society , as a way of breaking with the spheres of racism that are still latent.
through teeth
Fiction, 20 minutes, 2023
Directed by: Daniel Sena
Synopsis:
Caio waits for his best friend Hugo to say goodbye before a big trip, and what has been suppressed comes to the surface that night.
Garrima
Documentary, 12 minutes, 2023
Director: Cleubismar de Jesus (CDJOTA)
Synopsis:
The documentary covers the story of street sweeper and artist from Goiás Rhafael Moisés Pereira dos Santos, known artistically as Yellow. A worker at the Urbanization Company of the Municipality of Goiânia (COMURG), since 2009, he has provided an essential service for the city. Since 1999, he has been a member of the Goiano Hip Hop Movement. Currently, the artist already has more than 80 songs recorded and 12 music videos released, many of these compositions inspired by the city's streets.
Goyania – October or nothing
Documentary, 29 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Uliana Duarte
Synopsis:
Goyania – October or nothing is a female epistolary essay film built from sounds and images from archives from different periods and authors and images filmed by the director on super 8 in 2009 and 2019, a letter addressed to her city of origin.
Rufous Hornero
Fiction, 23 minutes, 2022
Director: Absair Weston
Synopsis:
Upon returning from the pottery where he works, João de Barro finds a dead man and, by his side, a bag with a lot of money. Without thinking about the consequences, he decides to take the bag, which could change his life, draw new lines and interfere with what is common.
Marta Kalunga
Documentary, 30 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Lucinete Morais, Marta Kalunga, Thaynara Rezende
Synopsis:
Guided by Marta's body/territory, we discover her story, her search for valuing memory and preserving Kalunga culture, interspersed with her loom and Sussia dance.
Indigenous Memories – The Jesco Puttkamer collection from the perspective of the Waurá and Yudjá peoples.
Documentary, 18 minutes, 2023
Directed by: Marlene Ossami de Moura
Synopsis:
The short film addresses the experience of the Waurá and Yudjá peoples, who identified places, people and gave new meaning to the values of images from photographer Jesco Puttkamer's audiovisual collection.
The payment
Fiction, 13 minutes, 2021
Directed by: Roberta Vieira
Synopsis:
Dolores is a 24-year-old girl who lives with her father Ulisses, 50 years old. They live on rent in a simple house, but they are both unemployed and haven't paid the rent for three months. One day, the landlord of the house knocks on their door and tells them that they must leave within three days, as their patience in waiting for the money has run out. Faced with this dilemma, father and daughter will deal with it in a way that reflects the real nature of their relationships.
8 STREET
Documentary, 9 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Caique Branco, Laércio Alves
Synopsis:
In the center of Goiânia, Rua 8, known as “Rua do Lazer”, is experiencing a process of artistic and cultural renaissance. However, this does not happen peacefully.
Transformation of Night Identities
Documentary, 22 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Patrick Mendes
Synopsis:
Very special guests tell iconic stories from the beginning of the scene queer, in the city of Goiânia, in the 80s, 90s and 2000s. In the speeches of Cristiano Mullins, Edilberto Dias, Esley Zambel, Henrique Florêncio, Lázaro Eurides, Paulinho Reis and Regina Perri, joy, memory and emotion present a look at festive nights goianienses.
Tupã- The creation of the worlds and the first man
Animation, 6 minutes, 2021
Directed by: Vagner Rosafa
Synopsis:
The Tupi-Guarani creation myth portrays, using a rich symbolic language, the evolutionary trajectory of the soul through its existential experience, where it will inhabit different bodies in the three material kingdoms.
Virus
Experimental, 8 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Lucas Montes Silva
Synopsis:
The adventures of a community health agent, in the midst of the largest vaccination mobilization in Brazil
Becos da Minha Terra Exhibition
Wings to fly
Documentary, 10 minutes, 2023
Directed by: Marly Mendanha
Synopsis:
Based on some popular beliefs, we have the life path of the Vilaboense poet Divino Damaceno and his intense poetic work between the past, present and future.
Child's play
Animation, 3 minutes, 2023
Directed by: Marly Mendanha
Synopsis:
Little colleagues on any given day, in the City of Goiás, between games and entertainment.
Walk
Documentary, 15 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Helder Antônio, Lucinete Morais, Vincent Emanuel Glen Gielen
Synopsis:
Short ethnobiographical documentary that presents the trajectory of environmentalist artist Helder Antônio with the technique of reusing elements from the cerrado and urban waste. The cerrado is one way, the city another. Caminharte Helder takes the middle path towards preserving, enhancing and raising awareness of the cerrado as our heritage.
Darcy & Lena
Documentary/Experimental, 16 minutes, 2021
Directed by: Jadson Borges
Synopsis:
The authenticity and identity of the backlands of Goiás narrated by the voices of two women who found their private paradise in the countryside, in a relationship of pure harmony between women and the land. Away from the city and used to being alone, Darcy and Lena recall stories of their intimate relationship with radio.
Since always: Serestas and serenades through time in the City of Goiás
Documentary, 30 minutes, 2023
Directed by: Pedro Diniz
Synopsis:
The centuries-old streets of the City of Goiás, illuminated by the magical yellowish light, formerly from gas lamps, now electric, serve as a stage, every month, on Saturdays with a full moon, for the musical event “Um Luar, um Guitar, uma Serenata ”. The nostalgic sound of guitars, violins and other instruments and the tuned voices of dozens of singers can be heard from afar, singing old romantic songs. Since when? "Since always!" – say Davina de Medeiros Veiga and Valdercy Alencastro Veiga, serenaders from the City of Goiás, who recount with great emotion the “stories” of the serenades, which have been running through the historic streets of the municipality for decades. Stories like that of Manoel Amorim Félix de Souza, a judge who, in the middle of the last century, composed “Rio Vermelho” for these occasions. Songs that, even after the serenade has passed, still echo in the ears of romantics who stroll through the streets of Goiás at dawn.
Soft
Experimental, 5 minutes, 2021
Directed by: Emilliano Freitas
Synopsis:
The narratives of a child who spends his days in 1989 talking to a K7 tape recorder become the trail of a clown who cries incessantly staring at the observer. A trophy of sensitivity in the spectacularization of sadness, weakness and softness. The clown as the antithesis of happiness, soft, eggshell, crybaby.
At the top of the mountain
Fiction, 12 minutes, 2022
Directed by: Marcelo Emos
Synopsis:
The fiction is the manifesto of two friends who, after having an important loss in their lives, climb Morro da Antena in the City of Goiás in search of answers. The short film highlights the exuberance of local nature, highlights the relevance of friendship and mourning, simplicity and real feelings.
Northeast: Torments of yesteryear reflected in the present
Animation/Experimental, 4 minutes, 2023
Directed by: Murilo Ribeiro
Synopsis:
The short NORTHEAST: Torments of yesteryear reflected in the present, is an animation of a model samba school, where the story is told (plot). Through the front committee, a couple of master room and flag bearer, wings and allegories, it seeks to show the difficulties still present in the Northeast Region of Brazil, in the face of the great socio-cultural inequality in our country.
Alimony
Fiction, 16 minutes, 2023
Directed by: Silvana Beline
Synopsis:
Sônia is a 38-year-old black woman who works making sweets in the city of Goiás. She has two daughters, one eight years old and the other two. With one of them sick, she has to work double shifts to try to guarantee medicine and the family's basic needs. After frustrated legal attempts to receive her ex-husband's pension, she decides to follow her friend Thalita's advice and try a non- conventional.
Go down the hill
Documentary, 8 minutes, 2021
Directed by: José Akashi Junior
Synopsis:
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Service
24th Edition of the International Environmental Film and Video Festival (FICA)
Where: City of Goiás
When: June 13 to 18, 2023
Site: https://fica.go.gov.br/
Service
Selection of lecturers for training activities on environmental preservation
Selection of artists from the city of Goiás for artistic and cultural presentations*
Registration: until May 24th
Location: https://fica.go.gov.br/
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