Memory House

Nominee
New Directors Award
San Sebastián International Film Festival
A study of what happens to an oppressed minority as decades of abuse chip away at his humanity...a timely commentary on integration and colonialism.
-- Ann-Marie Corvin, Variety

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Memory House

In this audacious debut feature, João Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam (played by Cinema Novo icon Antônio Pitanga), 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...

With dreamlike images steeped in traditional Brazilian folklore from Oscar-winning cinematographer Benjamin Echazarreta (A Fantastic Woman), Memory House is a “a study of what happens to an oppressed minority as decades of abuse chip away at his humanity” and “a timely commentary on integration and colonialism” (Variety).
Not Rated
Genre
Drama
Web Site
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Runtime
87
Language
Portuguese, German
Director
João Paulo Miranda Maria
Cast
Antonio Pitanga, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Sam Louwyck, Soren Hellerup
Awards:
Nominee, New Directors Award, San Sebastián International Film Festival

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