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Caligrama Exp . 35mm . Color . 30’ . 1995
Synopsis

A poetical essay composed by the vast repertory of sounds, gestures, words and objects that represent the symbolic universe of a group of beggars in the city of São Paulo.

Descontextualized from the streets where they live, they will act, alongside two actors, in imaginary situations that evoke a commom sense of wandering all of us what remains of more archaic or primitive interaction with the world and its spaces. Far from claim any ownership "sociological" the pauper´s problems, the film is based on a poetic narrative to create free associations of images that dialogue with the sensitive and psychic territory os these characters as recurrent when looking cities, but always obscurely and enigmatic.

Director Eliane Caffé

Eliane Caffé graduated in Psychology at PUC - Sao Paulo and got her master's degree at the Art Theory Aesthetical Institute at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, in Spain. She began her career as a filmmaker with the awarded short-films O Nariz (1987), Arabesco (1990) and Caligrama (1995). Her first feature Kenoma (1998) got international recognition after beings shown and awarded in important film festivals abroad. The same happened to Narradores de Javé (2002) and O Sol do Meio Dia (2009). Caffé worked for television making miniseries and experimental documentaries, besides coordinating collective filmmaking projects in many comunities around the countryside of Brazil. She is currently preparing to shoot the fiction Um Passo Para Ir and is finishing up the script fot the feature Calipo Sonha?

Cast

Leonardo Villar 


Jofre Soares 


Jonas Bloch 


Mariana Lima 


Marcelo Andrade

Crew

Director and Screenplay

Eliane Caffé 

 

Executive Producer

Zita Carvalhosa


Director of Production

Caio Gullane and Fabiano Gullane


Director of Photography

Hugo Kovensky


Art Director

 Carla Caffé


Editor

Idê Lacreta


Music

Wilson Sukorski

Festivals
  • Brasília Festival 1995 - Best Short Film Documentary
  • Prêmio Estímulo 1994 - Secretaria de Cultura do Estado de São Paulo
  • Melbourne Film Festival 1996
  • Leipzig Film Festival 1996
  • Havana Film Festival 1996
  • Biarritz Film Festival 1996


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