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CANNES 2020 Memory House a JOÃO PAULO MIRANDA MARIA picture Memory House a JOÃO PAULO MIRANDA MARIA picture Modern day Brazil, but lost in time. Cristovam, a native Black man from the rural North, moves to a former Austrian colony in the South to work in a milk factory. Confronted with xenophobic conservative people, he feels isolated and estranged from the white world. He discovers an abandoned house, filled with objects and memorabilia reminding him of his origins. He settles in, reconnecting with his roots. As if this memory house were alive, more objects start to appear. Slowly, Cristovam begins a metamorphosis. JOÃO PAULO MIRANDA MARIA For his feature debut, director João Paulo Miranda Maria uses spiritual SHORTS: and fantastical story-telling to encapsulate the social and racial tensions MENINAS FORMICIDA of modern day Brazil. Venice Orizzonti 2017 Memory House is the only Latin American film under the Cannes 2020 THE GIRL WHO DANCED Official Selection Label. WITH THE DEVIL PRODUCERS Paula Cosenza, Denise Gomes (BeBossa Entertainment - Cannes 2016 Brazil) and Didar Domehri (Maneki Films - France) Winner Special Mention of Jury Prize BRAZIL - FRANCE / 2020 / 90’ / Portuguese - German COMMAND ACTION Critics’ Week 2015 DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT The surreal invasion of the invisible into the visible has always been present in my films. Different times and dimensions meet within one another in the same scene. Cristovam seeks his origins, finding traces of his ancestry. The figure of the old black man is mythical in Brazilian popular culture, as a spiritual presence for the humblest. The visual effects in the movie, especially those on Cristovam’s face, with his skin and soul marked by age, are a projection of strength coming from his distant ancestors, an embodiment of the past, with a spiritual dimension. Facing a conservative society, he witnesses the intolerance and prejudices of the past shaping current politicians, businessmen and real separatist movements. There is a distinct division in Brazilian society between a richer South, identifying with its European origins, and a poorer North, populated by descendants of African slaves and Indigenous tribes. The film portrays the revolutionary figure of the Northern man who incarnates the spirit of the “Boiadeiro” (Brazilian cowboy). Cristovam seeks revenge to exculpate his sins as he feels responsible for an intolerant society. Through the abandoned house, he connects with his remote past, to animals and his deity, and transforms into a both a bull and a cowboy. 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