CINEMATECA BRASILEIRA

20.07.2024, Double screening of Glauber Rocha’s film DER LEONE HAVE SEPT CABEÇAS and Barbara Marcel’s medium-length film MARLENE, followed by a conversation between Marcel, Mariana Queen Nwabsili and Mateus Araújo, at the Brazilian Cinematheque. São Paulo, Brazil.

In a special double screening, DER LEONE HAVE SEPT CABEÇAS (Glauber Rocha, 1970) and MARLENE (Barbara Marcel, 2022) were shown at the Cinemateca Brasileira. While DER LEONE, filmed in Congo Brazzaville in 1969, is part of Rocha's Tricontinental Cinema project, MARLENE, filmed in Kinshasa, just across the river, is the result of the screening and reception of Rocha's film today and the debates about militant cinema. The screening was followed by a conversation between Marcel, journalist, researcher and film festival curator Mariana Queen Nwabsili and film studies professor Mateus Araújo.

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