Please join the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies and Department of Spanish and Portuguese for a virtual screening of A cidade do futuro/The City of the Future (Marília Hughes and Cláudio Marques, 2015). As part of the 8th UCLA Latin American and Iberian Film Festival, A cidade do futuro will be available to access online from February 15-22. To access the movie, go to https://pragda.com/sfc-event/ucla/ and login with username SFC@UCLA and password SpanPort2021. The festival's other films will also be available to screen weekly from February 1 to March 8th at the same address.
About the film:
In Serra do Ramalho, Brazil, young teacher Milla finds herself pregnant by her colleague Gilmar. Gilmar is in a relationship with Igor, but Milla asserts that the baby will belong to all three of them. Despite some initial conflict between the three, and in defiance to their community’s reaction, they form an unconventional but remarkably uncomplicated family. Billed as the ‘city of the future’, Serra do Ramalho was constructed in the 1970s in order to rehouse thousands of citizens that had been forcefully relocated. The location forms an important backdrop for this elegant, gentle film which is full of hope for a new generation building their own family of the future.
*The film will be available to watch starting February 15*
Cost : Free
Download file: PosterCidadedoFuturoCondensed-bl-4zk.pdf
Sponsor(s): Center for Brazilian Studies, Spanish and Portuguese
