Documentary steals the show on the penultimate day.
Highly acclaimed, the film "Plano B" follows "Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova," sponsored by a typewriter company and subsequently boycotted by it. The film's only screening in decades was at the Cine Brasília, during the 1967 Film Festival. Immediately after its screening, the reel was hidden to prevent censorship from confiscating it.
Marcelo Brandão
Reporter from Agência Brasil
Brasilia - A documentary made to exalt Brazil's new capital during the military dictatorship also showed, on Sunday night (22), the social problems that were already present at the time and, therefore, was banned by the sponsoring company. The film, from 1967, and the problems it portrays were presented to the public in the documentary. Plan B, by Getsemane Silva, during the Brasília Film Festival. The production was the best received by the Cine Brasília audience on Sunday (22) night.
The film was highly acclaimed. Plan B go after Brasília, Contradictions of a New CityThe film was sponsored by a typewriter company and subsequently boycotted by them. Its only screening in decades was at the Cine Brasília during the 1967 Film Festival. Immediately after its projection, the reel was hidden to prevent censorship from confiscating it.
“It wasn’t a film sponsored by grants or the state. It was sponsored by a company, and that same company banned the film when it was almost finished because it revealed the hidden suburbs of Brasília,” explains Silva. According to him, the intention of Plano B, besides exposing another episode of the repression of the 60s and 70s in Brazil, is to show how Brasília continues to evolve in terms of social inequality. “I tell this story to say that Brasília continues with the same problems. Today, only 8% of the population of the Federal District lives in the Plano Piloto. In other words, the modernist myth doesn’t exist here.”
Passing by the Cine Brasília on Sunday night, the couple Paulo and Eliana Gobbi decided to check out some of the festival and didn't regret it. “The film revisits the history of the capital and has this counterpoint, of looking back at older films. It shows that things have only gotten worse and that the politicians' attitudes haven't changed over the years,” said Gobbi, who was pleasantly surprised by the film. Eliana also liked the criticisms included in the work. “I really liked this film. It recovers a critical memory and shows that many things haven't changed. Very good.”
Present in Plan BThe team behind the 1967 documentary reminisces about stories from the production. Actor Joel Barcellos was the production director of... Brasília, Contradictions of a New City and told Agency Brazil that the "years of lead" gave him no respite. "It was heartbreaking what they did. In 1968 and 1969, I had films and plays censored. [Italian director] Bernardo Bertolucci wrote a story for me, they took me to Italy and saved my skin. And that's why I'm here now, full of emotion."