It’s All True 2013
Amir Labaki, director of the It’s All True festival in Brazil (Sao Paolo, Rio, Brasilia, Campinas – from April 4-23), is a man, who loves film history and knows how to celebrate it, as he does this year with a fine retrospective of films by Dziga Vertov, 8 works (photo), including the fantastic ”The 11th Year” (1928) that I had the privilege to watch in Kiev last week.
Apart from that gift to the audience, the festival has an international competition, where you as in many other festivals notice the presence of the Georgian ”The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear” by Tinachin Gurchiani, the Czech ”Private Universe” by Helena Trestikova, Sergei Mironishnichenko’s ”Born in the USSR – 28 Up” and the new film of Avi Mograbi, ”Once I entered a Garden”.
In a special programme you find Alan Berliner’s ”First Cousin Once Removed”, ”Palme” by Kristina Lindström and Maud Nycander and ”The Gatekeepers” by Dror Moreh.
Of course there is a Latin American Showcase with ”The Last Station” by Cristian Soto and Catalina Vergara, a Brazilian retrospective that Labaki thematically introduces to be ”On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état of 1964 that removed President João Goulart (nickname “Jango”) from power and installed a military dictatorship for two decades”. And 7 films in the section, Brazilian Competition. And much more to be studied on the site:
