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Brazilian Film Nights

Brazilian Film Nights

29.06.2022 – 13.07.2022

Film lab Palestine and the Representative Office of Brazil to Palestine are pleased to invite you to the Brazilian Film Nights at Al Kasaba Theatre and Cinematheque. The film nights will begin on June 29. Every Wednesday night, for three weeks, Brazilian movies will be screened. The films present to the Palestinian audience features of the Brazilian cinema and the diversity of its life, culture and society.


Bach in Brazil by Ansgar Ahlers

06.07.2022
07 pm
AlKasaba Theatre & Cinematheque Ramallah 

Bach in Brazil, 2015
Directed by: Ansgar Ahlers
Drama, Comedy, Music, 90 min, +6
Portuguese, German with Arabic and English

Inspired by true events, this is a story about what happens when two outsiders from opposite corners of the world are thrown together: Brazil and Germany. Marten Brueckling, a retired music teacher from Germany, has inherited original sheet music from Bach's son and must collect the sheet in person, in the beautiful Baroque city of Ouro Preto in the heart of Brazil. But Brazil is not for beginners: Funny circumstances drive him to teach music to the young inmates of a juvenile detention center. Bach's music and Brazilian instruments mix perfectly. One of the kids is Fernando, a lovable abandoned boy who lived on the streets. But Marten discovers that they have more in common than he thought.

The Movie of my Life by Selton Mello

13.07.2022
07 pm 
AlKasaba Theatre & Cinematheque Ramallah 

03.08.2022
07 pm 
AlKasaba Theatre & Cinematheque Ramallah 

The movie of my life, 2017
Directed by: Selton Mello
Drama, 113 min, +18
Portuguese, Spanish, French, with Arabic and English subtitles

Based on a novel "A Distant Father" by Antonio Skármeta, the story takes place in the sierras of south of Brazil, 1963.
Young Tony Terranova has to deal with the absence of his father, who left without telling the family. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his father whereabouts and reasons for leaving.