Brazil: 10 Next Gen Talents to Track
variety.comBrazil’s next generation of cinematic talent tackles a huge gamut of themes, styles and concern about social issues. Variety profiles 10 figures who look set to help shape the future of Brazilian filmmaking.
Alves de Souza has such films as 2020 Berlin Generation winner “My Name Is Baghdad,” a plucky tale of adolescence on the fringes of society, and 2013’s San Sebastian Horizontes Latinos debut “Underage,” a riveting look at juvenile justice under her belt.
She shreds ignorance with her belief “in the power of a cinema that questions established norms but also offers some alternative.” At this year’s Berlin Co-Production Market, her “Lonely Hearts” deals with the fate of a family porn theater business, its characters “contradictory, flawed, idiosyncratic, and on the other hand, extremely empathetic,” she says.
She is a festival favorite who crafts energetic narratives that traipse outside societal bounds. In Camelo’s “The Beads,” a 2023 Berlinale Short co-directed by Emanuel Lavar, we join two sisters in a seemingly isolated country house.
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