Brasil: A Slow Film Festival continues with Arábia (Affonso Uchôa, João Dumans), a film exploring the lives of working class young people. André, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano’s house to pick up clothes and documents, André stumbles on a notebook, and it’s here that Arábia begins — or, rather, transforms. As André reads from the journal entries, we are plunged into Cristiano’s life, into stories of his wanderings, adventures, and loves.

“A quiet epic which is both ideal for the current turbulent epoch and timeless, grittily specific in its details but universal in its themes, Joao Dumans and Affonso Uchoa’s Brazilian wonder Araby (Arabia) sets a high bar for world cinema of 2017. An intriguingly structured, multilayered road movie in which an ordinary working-class dude looks back over a nation-wandering decade of his life… [it’s] a cumulatively engrossing and ultimately very moving work of clear-eyed political intent.” – Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter

📅 2nd May, 7.30pm
📍 Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AW

This event is free, but registration is recommended to avoid disappointment.

Accessibility:
This event is wheelchair accessible and features English subtitles.