Estamira
Part of the Gloaming Elephants
| Director: | Marcus Prados |
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| Certificate: | Not Rated |
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| Format: | DVD |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Country: | Brazil |
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beoPB4iXhLM
In the periphery of Rio de Janeiro, the sixty and something years old ESTAMIRA is a happy and charismatic woman that has been working for more than twenty years in the city dumpster in Gramacho, collecting remains for recycling or personal use.
Throughout the film we see the madness of this woman, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, through her philosophic principles and concepts of life and religion; but further than that, we see that she was a married woman with three daughters and one son abused by her husband.
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Film: World Mental Health Day (Film + Gig)
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Film: Creation
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03
Film: The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser
3 Nov 2013, 6:30 p.m.
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06
Film: Marat Sade
6 Nov 2013, 6:30 p.m.
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of an Asylum.A bloody and unrelenting depiction of class struggle and human suffering which asks whether true revolution comes from changing society or changing oneself.
11
Film: Estamira
11 Dec 2013, 6:30 p.m.
Estamira is a happy and charismatic woman that works in a city dump. Schizophrenic, but very charismatic, she’s the leader of a small community of old people with a very lyrical and philosophical attitude towards life.