The Council on Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese will present a festival of films from and about Brazil, beginning Tuesday, February 25.
All events are free and open to the public.
These films demonstrate the historical complexity, the diversity of race, ethnicity, regionalism, and politics in Brazil. Mr. Garfield and Lidia Santos, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, are organizers of the series. Portuguese and Japanese with English subtitles. A moving chronicle of Japanese emigration to Brazil at the turn of the century, the film centers on a young woman who came to seek her fortune on the coffee plantations of the New World, along with hundreds of her countrymen. In filming the struggles of Northeastern Brazilian fishermen for social justice and documenting popular celebrations of Carnival, he rankled both Brazilian government officials and Hollywood moguls.