Memory House = Casa de antiguidades / Bebossanova Entretenimento and Maneki Films in association with Cinema Caipira and Canal Brazil ; producers, Denise Gomes, Paula Cosenza, Didar Domehri ; written & directed by João Paulo Miranda Maria.

[New York] : Film Movement, [2021]

1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

In this audacious debut feature, Joao Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam, an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged from the white world. Upon discovering an abandoned house filled with objects reminding him of his origins, Cristovam begins a spiritual and physical metamorphosis.

Images / Video & Film

Portuguese; German

February 28, 2022

Director of photography, Benjamin Echazarreta ; editor, Benjamin Mirguet ; music, Nicolas Becker.

Antonio Pitanga, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Aline Marta Maia, Sam Louwyck, Gilda Nomacce, Soren Hellerup.

DVD; NTSC; all regions; widescreen; 5.1 surround sound/2.0 stereo.

Not rated by the MPAA