Grandma Has a Video Camera / Sócrates
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Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Making Waves. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is excited to welcome The Brazilian Filmmakers Collective in conversation with their films over two nights of programs that include short and feature length documentary and narrative work.
Grandma Has a Video Camera (2007)
Tania Cyproiano’s family has been moving back and forth between the United States and Brazil for years, resulting in different thoughts and experiences on working and living in two places. Using home video footage shot by her family that chronicles their lives over 20 years, filmmaker Tania Cypriano’s moving film is a greater story about immigration, searching for what is better and exploring the definition of home. Touching and personal, Grandma Has a Video Camera is a beautiful and provocative look at what it means to belong and be from multiple places.
DCP, color, 58 min. Director: Tania Cypriano.
Sócrates (2018)
Alexandre Moratto’s riveting debut feature follows a teenager, Socrates, who becomes homeless after his mother has just died. Navigating grief and a need to find shelter, Socrates connects with a young man, tries to engage with his homophobic father and visits shops of São Paulo, in an effort to find a job, though unsuccessful. Pulsing with a gentle assuredness, Moratto imbues his film with compassion and care while showing great insight into the human condition without exploitation. “With an authenticity rarely seen in contemporary cinema, it examines the lives of those that struggle to survive in ecosystems that function according to their own decrepit principles.” —Alex Saveliev, Film Threat
DCP, color, 71 min. Director: Alexandre Moratto. Writers: Thayná Mantesso, Alexandre Moratto. With: Christian Malheiros, Tales Ordakji.
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