Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival

The American Cinematheque is thrilled to partner with the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival in its 16th year to bring some of the most exciting Brazilian Cinema to Los Angeles. The festival is dedicated to promoting talents from Brazil’s Cinema who contribute to transforming the Brazilian film culture and represents the best of independent Brazilian cinema made in the past year.

Schedule:

7:00 PM: MOTEL DESTINO at Los Feliz Theatre

The neon-hued Motel Destino, a roadside sex hotel steaming under the burning blue skies of the northeastern coast of Brazil, is run by hot-headed Elias and his restless younger wife Dayana. The unexpected arrival of 21-year-old Heraldo, on the run after a botched hit, disrupts the established order. As the tropical noir plays out, loyalties and desires intertwine to reveal that destiny has its own enigmatic design.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Strand Releasing

COUNTRY: Brazil/France/Germany

10:00 PM: MALU at Los Feliz Theatre

Malu - a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum - tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious artistic past.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Pluto Film

COUNTRY: Brazil