Jornal da Mostra
Nº 309 > 28ª Mostra > 21/10/2004
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The youth festival opens the 28th São Paulo international film festival with the classic “The Battle of Algiers”
The Film “The Battle of Algiers” (1965) by Gillo Pontecorvo opens officially the 28th São Paulo International Film Festival. With sessions at 10am and 2:30pm at the Cinearte 2, the films are exhibited during the 4th edition of the Youth Festival, free and exclusive for high-school students.“The Battle of Algiers” pictures the war for Algeria’s independence from France. Ali, the leader of the Algerian National Freedom Front (FLN), narrates the film. The film follows Ali from the moment he joins the FLN – when he’s still a petty thief – to when he and other leaders of the movement were captured and executed at the hands of the French government.
Banned during many years in France and prohibited in Brazil during the Dictatorship, “The Battle of Algiers” won the Critics International Prize at the Venice Festival in 1966. In 1969, the year it was released in the USA, it was nominated for the Oscar for best original script and best direction.
Until the end of the Festival, on November 4th, the Youth Festival will be exhibited daily, always showing at 10am and 2:30pm, films for a younger audience. Films such as the Swedish “The Ketchup Effect”, about a teenager who gets into trouble during her first sexual experience; the Bulgarian “Mila From Mars”, about the discoveries on a pregnant 16-year-old; the Argentinean “Buenos Aires 100 KM”, about a disturbed transition of five friends from childhood to adolescence. The program also includes “The Cat Returns” (Japan), “Hollow City” (Portugal), “Seducing Doctor Lewis” (Canada), “From Land of Silence” (Iran), “Almost Brothers” (Brazil), “The Edukators” (Germany), “Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi” (Israel), “Rolling Family” (Argentina) and “Roads To Koktebel” (Russia).
