The Department of Communication (Decom) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) promotes the II Cinema and Democracy Exhibition: “From Dreams to Things”. The event will show, from May 16th to 18th, six films that relate the authoritarian consequences in democracy, such as the presence of political violence. The exhibition, which always starts at 6pm, in the Decom auditorium, emphasizes subordinate groups. Registration is available through Sigaa.
On the first day, the Exhibition pays homage to councilor and human rights defender Marielle Franco, whose murder completed five years on March 14th. The short film “Elle”, about Marielle's family's visit to Paris, and the feature film “Sementes”, about the legacy left by the councilwoman, will be shown. The chat will be held by Isabelle Rodrigues, author of the book “Vozes do Silêncio: as Mulheres que não se silencio”, and Liliane Mutti, one of the directors of Elle.
The following two days will be dedicated to the theme “memory, truth and justice”. On the 17th, the focus will be on the perspective of daughters and sons, with a short animated documentary film, “Torre”, which brings stories from the children of the Rio de Janeiro activist Virgílio Gomes da Silva, and a fiction feature film “The year my parents went on vacation”. Tonight, the debate will be given by Ana Beatriz Sá, granddaughter of Glênio Sá, a native of Rio Grande do Norte who was a member of the Araguaia Guerrilla, and Juan Almeida, who worked as a researcher at the UFRN Truth Commission between 2012 and 2015.
At the end of the Exhibition, the dictatorial period is related to the present day, as in the case of the persecution suffered by the Krenak indigenous people, shown in the medium-length film “Reformatório Krenak”. Also in the last session, the connection between the dictatorship and Bolsonarism is shown, through the feature film “Memória suffocada”. Directed by Gabriel Di Giacomo, the film shows different narratives from the past that illuminate current times, in a montage with materials available on the internet, but rarely accessed. The title dialogues with the book “Verdade suffocada”, written by torturer Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra. The director will participate in the online debate, which will also be attended by the doctor from UFRN and member of the Articulação Negra e Indígena do Audiovisual e Cinema no Rio Grande do Norte, Andrielle Mendes.
The exhibition was curated by UFRN professors Aline Lucena and Mônica Mourão. It also featured audiovisual researchers and directors Arthur Frazão (PhD student in Communication and Culture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Mili Bursztyn (PhD student in Cinema at the Universidade Federal Fluminense).