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Paraíba’s Queer Wave of Super 8 Cinema: CLOSES & BALTAZAR DA LOMBA

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Thu 26.10.
15:00

Two films exemplify the wave of radical queer Super 8 cinema of the late 1970s and early 1980s in northeastern Brazil. CLOSES is a work of docufiction about conflicts and prejudices associated with sexuality. BALTAZAR DA LOMBA depicts the first historical record of the repression of homosexuality in the state of Paraíba during the colonial period.

Program:
CLOSES Pedro Nunes Brazil 1982 Original version with English subtitles DCP 32 min.
BALTAZAR DA LOMBA Grupo Nós Tambén ­Brazil 1982 Original version with English subtitles DCP 10 min. 

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media