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Amazon Film Series – Los Silencios
March 24, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Los Silencios
(Beatriz Seigner, 2018, 89 minutes, Brazil, Spanish & Portuguese w/ English subtitles, DCP)
March 24, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater
Nuria, Fabio and their mother Amparo arrive at an unknown island on the border between Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They are fleeing armed conflicts in Colombia and learn that their father, who had allegedly been killed in a landslide caused by a mining company, is hiding in the house where they live.
“Infusing the film’s visual vocabulary with a striking new palette, the concluding scene of ethereal communion and reckoning brings the preceding story to another level.” – Film Comment
“A lyrical meditation on the liminal nature of refugee identity, drifting into the supernatural to ponder the everyday struggle of living with death in more ways than one.” – Variety
“Meditative and moving.” – The Hollywood Reporter
Screen/Society screenings are free and open to the public.
Parking Info: https://artscenter.duke.edu/parking
More info: https://cinematicarts.duke.edu/node/792
Co-sponsors: Screen/Society, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)