(Liberation)
(16 mm, 48 min, color, 1994)
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Is it the country of the future where children
get pregnant? Is it the largest Catholic country in the world where the
largest number of women die from the consequences of abortion? The tenth
economy in the world is that of the country where 27% of the women at fertile
age have been sterilised? VENTRE LIVRE tells some of the stories of Vera,
Ivonette, Carmen, Denise, Maria do Carmo, Marlove - people who were born
in the country with the most unequal income distribution in the world.
A film about women's health in Brazil, while the future doesn't come.
PHOTO by Carlos Gerbase |
Director: Ana Luiza Azevedo
Executive
Producer: Nora Goulart
Written
by: Ana Luiza Azevedo, Giba Assis Brasil and Rosângela Cortinhas
Cinematographer:
Alex
Sernambi
Art Director:
Fiapo
Barth
Music by:
Leo
Henkin
Production
Coordinator: Luciana Tomasi
Editor:
Giba Assis Brasil
Assistant
Director: Amabile Rocha
A Casa de Cinema PoA Production
Main Cast:
Lisa Becker
(portuguese and english female narration)
Rui Carvalho
(portuguese male narration)
Robin Clein
(english male narration)
Ciça
Reckziegel (the teacher)
Prizes
22nd
Gramado Film Festival, 1994:
Best Medium-lenght
Film, Best Regional Film, Best Editing of Regional Film, Best Screenplay
of Regional Film.
27th
Brasilia Film Festival, 1994:
Special Jury
Award, Best Editing in 16 mm.
18th
Guarnicê of Cine-Video, São Luís, 1995:
Best Story,
Best Screenplay.
1st
Latinoamerican Festival of Films and Human Rights, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
1997:
Best Documentary.
Reviews
"Ana films with a feminine look of a privileged woman who had the children
she chose to have and with the compassion of the sympathetic and sensitive
artist. It is a film to be seen over and over again on TV, in schools,
in community centers, in the streets, in parks. It is a civic duty to see
it."
(Luiz César
Cozzatti, JORNAL RS, Porto Alegre, 20/08/1994)
"VENTRE LIVRE (LIBERATION) is a film about inequality. About unequal rights,
unequal lives, unequal between rich and poor, between men and women. It
presents numbers and statistics, it assumes a discourse but it is never
rhetorical. Ana Luiza and her co-writers (...) had the courage to believe
in their theme. They did not embellish, they just knew how to listen and
to see. And the concern and indignation with which the film was made are
plainly visible. And there lies its power."
(David França
Mendes, REVISTA IMAGENS, São Paulo, September 1994)
"The power of its arguments, and also the efficacy with which it establishes
communication with the viewer, explain why this film (...) won best medium
length film at the Gramado Latin Film Festival this year. It does not only
state an opinion, it seeks to transmit a conviction, an experience. They
take a stand and it is communicated clearly, as a decision and therefore
with active political results. It is precisely this character that makes
the result so respectable and so necessary."
(Manuel Martínez
Carril, REVISTA CINEMATECA URUGUAYA # 238, October 1994)
Available versions
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| 16mm in portuguese |
16mm with english subtitles |
16mm with spanish subtitles |
DVD with multlingual subtitles ("Curtas da Casa") |
VHS in portuguese ("Historias Reais") |
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