ONCE UPON A TIME IN RIO ERA UMA VEZ...
HAWAII PREMIERE
Young De lives alone with his mother Bernadete. He belongs to this invisible class,
working as a hot dog vendor at one of the stalls in Ipanema. His brother Beto was
killed when he was a child, and his adopted brother Carlao is in jail after being wrongly
accused of a robbery – a victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time in a
racist society. One day at the beach, De meets Nina, the only child of a lawyer,
Evandro. They fall in love, despite coming from vastly different communities. Unfolding
like a fairy tale, Once Upon a Time in Rio is a tragic love story set in a city divided by
economic privilege and prejudice. Through De and Nina's tale, Silveira explores the
absurdity of a society in which people live in close proximity yet stand worlds apart.
BRAZIL 2009 | PORTUGUESE W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 117M
Director: Breno Silveira; Producer: Pedro Buarque de Hollanda, Daniel Filho, Breno
Silveira;Cinematographer: Dudu Miranda, Paulo Souza; Script:Patrícia Andrade;
Cast: Thiago Martins, Vitória Frate, Rocco Pitanga
OCTOBER 18 5:30PM 21 1:30PM DOLE
ROCKSTEADY / BEST OF TIMES
THE STRENGTH OF WATER
HAWAII PREMIERE
Kimi and Melody are twins, the middle children in a family of Maori chicken farmers.
Their lives are forever changed when Tai, a drifter, moves into his grandfather’s aban-
doned house, now considered tapu (defined here as ‘prohibited by human contact’). The
film’s main characters are outsiders who struggle to deal with the legacies of their fami-
lies and a terrible accident that rattles the entire village. The landscape of the starkly
beautiful Hokianga coast comes alive for the cameras of first-time director Armagan
Ballantyne and the Polish cinematographer Bogumi Godfrejów. Together with the haunt-
ing score, the shots of the striking North Island coast amplify the moving performances
of the film’s young actors. The first feature screenplay by award-winning New Zealand
playwright Briar Grace-Smith, The Strength of Water uses magical realism to provide a
powerful and sensitive look at life and loss
in a rural Maori community. – Justin Stein
NEW ZEALAND 2009 | ENGLISH, MAORI W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 86M
Director:Armagan Ballantyne; Producer: Fiona Copland; Cinematographer:
Bogumil Godfrejow; Script: Briar-Grace Smith; Cast:Hato Paparoa, Melanie
Mayall-Nahi, Jim Moriarty, Nancy Brunning, Isaac Barber, Shayne Biddle
UNDER THE MOUNTAIN / AFTER THE STORM
OCTOBER 15 8:30PM 19 5:30PM DOLE
OCTOBER 15-25, 2009 HIFF.ORG 71
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