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Solmatalua

Rodrigo Ribeiro-Andrade
Screening time  
28.03. / Tuesday, 22:00 - 00:00 Theatre 1  

In a dreamlike Afro-Diasporic odyssey, divinities, landscapes and alleys meet at the crossroads of time. With a constellation of black voices and presences, Solmatalua (which means both "sunforestmoon" as "sunkillmoon”) travels a dizzying itinerary through ancestral and contemporary territories, carrying out a mystical journey that rescues memories and searches for possible futures. The director stays clear of traditional historical reconstruction in the intuitively edited composition where images of the Black Diaspora are combined with nature sounds, religious singing, poems, popular music and the voices of Brazilians fighting against racism. The result is a poetic essay that connects us directly with a collective conscious.

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Rodrigo Ribeiro-Andrade

Rodrigo Ribeiro-Andrade is an Afro-Brazilian filmmaker. In 2020 debuted with the praised documentary A Morte Branca do Feiticeiro Negro (The White Death of the Black Wizard), elected Best Short Film by the Brazilian Association of Film Critics, screened through dozens of international film festivals and featured on several lists of the best films of the year. In 2022 released Solmatalua, which had International Premiere at IDFA Amsterdam, nominated for the IDFA ReFrame Award for Best Creative Use of Archive.

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Solmatalua

Brazil
2022, 15'

Directed by:
Rodrigo Ribeiro-Andrade

Screenplay by:
Rodrigo Ribeiro-Andrade

Edited by:
Rodrigo Ribeiro-Andrade

Producer:
Rodrigo Ribeiro-Andrade

Produced by:
Gata Maior Filmes, Aruac Filmes, QTV Selo

Festivals & Awards:

IDFA (2022), Festival do Rio (2022), MoMA Doc Fortnight (2023)