Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 121: Fri May 1

We Are Brothers (Burle, 1949): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 3.20pm

The screening of We Are Also Brothers on Friday 1 May will be introduced by Dr Felipe Botelho Correa, King’s College London. This is part of the Brazilian Cinema season at BFI Southbank. You can find the details here

BFI introduction:
Two Black brothers opt for very different career paths in Rio. One pursues education and respectability, while the other is drawn into petty crime. Burle blends melodrama with social critique and uses his characters’ stories as a platform to confront Brazil’s myth of racial harmony. 

Here (and above) is an extract. 

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