MUTUM (EDU) - Brazil (Global Lens Film Series)

November 10, 2009
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM, 1636 SSWB (International Institute)

Host Department: Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS)

This film contains mild language. This film will be shown at both 2:30 PM and 4:00 PM.

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Thiago is a sensitive and imaginative boy living on a small, hardscrabble farm in a remote region of Brazil. His life is filled not only with curiosity and youthful discovery, but also the reality of his parent's unhappy marriage and his father's abuse — all of which are one day changed by a chance encounter and unexpected gift. Director Sandra Kogut, in her poetic adaptation of the Brazilian short story Campo Geral, focuses on minute details of rural life to tell a bittersweet story of one boy's coming-of-age amidst events both great and small.