This weekend marks the launch of “Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Documentary,” a month-long pageant of weekend showings of Brazilian film, co-sponsored by the UCLA Latin American Institute, the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies, the UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the UCLA Division of Humanities. All screenings take place at the Billy Wilder Theater in the UCLA Hammer Museum.
On Friday, July 11, 7:30 p.m., see "The Century" ("O século"), a nine-minute documentary released in 2011, painting a century of revolution in Brazil in an abstract, allegorical way, followed by the 1985 “Twenty Years Later" ("Cabra marcado para morrer"), which includes defining portraits of Brazil under dictatorship.
On Saturday, July 12, 7:30 p.m., catch “ABC of a Strike" "(ABC da Greve"), an account of the 1979 metal workers’ strikes outside of São Paulo, and “Intermissions" ("Entreatos"), which closely documents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's 2002 campaign for president in Brazil.
The screenings will run through August 15. FInd the complete schedule here. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online here.