BUILDING BRIDGES (documentary)

AWARDS
Prêmio de la crítica CAMIRA no VIII Festival Márgenes
Prêmio Marco Antônio Guimarães, 50º Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro
Grande Prêmio Cora Coralina, melhor filme do festival pelo juri oficial e o Prêmio Juri Jovem Universitário – XX FICA – 2018
Menção Honrosa no CineEco 2018
Melhor longa-metragem no Festival de Cine Incuna Film Fest.;

MAIN FESTIVAIS
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam IDFA, 2017;
50º Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro;
São Paulo International Film Festival, Brasil 2017;
Uruguay IFF,2018;
Festival Internacional de Cine Documental “Encuentros del Otro Cine” – EDOC; Doqumenta 2018, México;
VIII Festival Márgenes, Spain;
Incuna Int Film Festival, Spain;
Dokubaku 2018, Azerbaijan;
CineEco2018, Portugal;
Femme Revolution Film Fest 2018, México;
40º Festival Internacional Del Nuevo Cine Latino Americano, Cuba.

Director: Heloisa Passos
Screenwriter: Heloisa Passos, Leticia Simões & Stefanie Kremser
Producer: Heloisa Passos e Tina Hardy
Executive Producer: Luciane Passos
Cinematographer: Heloisa Passos, abc, dafb
Editor: Isabela Monteiro de Castro & Tina Hardy

Synopsis
Brazil has gone through great changes in recent years, with political unrest, scandals and corruption just matters of course. By way of a troubled father-daughter relationship, we gain insight into their enormous differences and the generation gap that exists between them. Alvaro is an engineer who had his glory days during the time of the military dictatorship. His daughter, filmmaker Heloísa Passos, rebelled against the regime and continues to fight inequality. Looking back at old family footage, she seeks to get to know her father better. This leads to personal, temperamental and meaningful discussions between the two. Through their changing perspectives, we come to understand the complexity of their points of view. The intimate shots of the arguments in the living room, from which Passos’ mother is notably absent, offer a look into the family structure. A shared visit to the impressive constructions that her father helped engineer also exposes the political and economic structures of contemporary Brazil.