2024
Short Narrative(Philadelphia Premiere)

Mend

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Zé carries a burden. Why keep on mending all these things that are not worth it anymore?

Screenings

Virtual

August 3 – August 5
August 1 – August 3

Directors Spotlight

GG Fákọ̀làdé

Director

Best Film by the Jury at the 51st Gramado Film Festival. Best Film by the Jury and Canal Brasil Short Film Award at the 26th Tiradentes Film Festival. Best Direction and ABRACCINE Award at the 56th Brasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema. A practitioner of Afro-Brazilian spirituality and a PhD candidate in Cinema and Audiovisual at Fluminense Federal University (UFF), GG Fákọ̀làdé lives, researches, and produces from the perspectives of anticolonial studies, diasporic religiosities, and gender nonconformity.

Runtime
20 minutes
Country
Brazil
Language
Portuguese
Director
GG Fákọ̀làdé
Cast
ELÍDIO NETTO, MARKUS KONKÁ, ELIETE MIRANDA | WITH ROYCE LUCKESSY, LÉIA RODRIGUES, JORDAN FERNANDES AND PEDRO HENRIQUE OLIVEIRA
Cinematographer
WILLIAN RUBIM
Producer
MELINA GALANTE
Screenwriter
ROGER GHIL
Editor
ROGER GHIL
Executive Producer
IZAH CANDIDO
Production Design
THAIS RODRIGUES
Sound Design
ROGER GHIL, GISELE BERNARDES, ALESSANDRA LIMA FELIX
Premiere
Philadelphia

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