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Building Bridges

Country: Brazil, Language: Portuguese, 73 mins

Original Title

Construindo Pontes
  • Director: Heloísa Passos
  • Writer: Heloísa Passos; Stefanie Kremser; Letícia Simões
  • Producer: Tina Hardy; Heloísa Passos

CGiii Comment

Heloisa receives a gift: a collection of super-8 films with images of enormous cataracts that once comprised the Seven Falls (Sete Quedas), a natural paradise destroyed by the construction of the world's largest hydroelectric plant, in the early 1980s. The construction of the plant, at the height of the Brazilian military regime, awakens memories of a past immersed in a political authoritarianism. The film starts from the relationship between Heloisa, the filmmaker, and her father, Alvaro, an engineer who had his moment of glory during the Brazilian military dictatorship. They question the political trajectory of Brazil.Projections and maps become the first bridges to connect with the past. However, it is the inescapable present that really strikes Alvaro and Heloisa as they position themselves on opposite sides.


Percorrendo caminhos entrelaçados – o pessoal e o político –, o filme retrata uma família e um país através da relação entre um pai engenheiro e sua filha cineasta. Projeções, mapas e fotos são usados como primeiras pontes para se chegar ao passado. Entretanto, é o inevitável presente que golpeia Álvaro e Heloisa quando, diante da conturbada situação política do Brasil de hoje, eles estão em lados opostos. Um debate cinematográfico, poético e amorosamente bélico. Seleção oficial do IDFA 2017 e do 50º Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro.


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