SELECTED FILMS
These are the 109 selected films included in Lusophone Film Fest sessions worldwide.
(shown here in alphabetical order)
99
Cinema Aspirins and Vultures
min
Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus
Northeastern Brazil, 1942. Two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought. Although their personalities and lives are worlds apart, the two men develop a deep friendship, as Johan, in an effort to provide Ranulpho with job skills, teaches Ranulpho to run the film projector, and drive a truck. In this deliberately-paced road film, Marcelo Gomes reminds us that war is as close as Johan’s radio, broadcasting its relentless warnings that all lives are changed when the world is in conflict.
Marcelo Gomes
Brazil
2005
26
Heaven of Cherubs
min
Céu de querubins
The documentary follows the story of an artwork by the artist Aecio Sarti, who paints on used truck covers. This time, as art, one of the canvases returns to the reality of the roads and witnesses a Brazilian reality that only a few people know.
Gustavo Massola
Brazil
2014
83
Death Metal Angola
min
Death Metal Angola
Sonia Ferreira and Wilker Flores live and breathe hardcore rock and roll. They run the Okutiuka orphanage in the war-ravaged city of Huambo, Angola and dream of mounting the first-ever national rock concert. Raucous and righteous, this film follows their story, giving audiences a look at a rock show off the grid that is fulfilling, haunting, and real.
Jeremy Xido
Angola
2012






