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Special Screening

Foreign Land

Terra Estrangeira

Brazil, Portugal 1995 Fiction p&b 100 min.

Paco and his Spanish mother wish to visit the land of their forebears. With no money after the confiscation under the government of president Fernando Collor, Paco agrees to deliver a mysterious package —on request of the equally mysterious Igor, in Portugal, in exchange for his fares. Paco loses the package and meets a Brazilian woman, Alex, working as a waitress in Portugal, and living with Miguel, a smuggler musician addicted to heroin. Paco flees to Spain pursued by robbers with an interest in the package containing a violin with hidden diamonds.

Restoration

Foreign Land was restored by VideoFilmes in 2021, from the original 16mm film, digitized in high resolution at Éclair Laboratories. The audio was remastered to the 5.1 format from the original sound mix in Dolby Stereo. 

Horários de exibição

23/10

20:45

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23/10

20:45

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direção

Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas

roteiro

Daniela Thomas, Walter Salles

fotografia

Marcos Bernstein, Millôr Fernandes

montagem

Walter Salles, Felipe Lacerda

desenho de som

Geraldo Ribeiro, Carlos Alberto Lopes

design de produção

Daniela Thomas

música

José Miguel Wisnik

elenco

Fernanda Torres, Fernando Alves Pinto, Luis Melo, Alexandre Borges, Laura Cardoso, João Lagarto

produtor

Flávio R. Tambellini

produzido por

Videofilmes, Animatógrafo, Movi-Art

Walter Salles

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1956. In 1991, he directed his first feature film, High Art (1991, 15th Mostra). He was a member of the 19th Mostra’s International Jury, in 1995. In partnership with Daniela Thomas, he directed Foreign Land (1995), Midnight (1998, 23rd Mostra), a segment of Paris, I Love You (2006, 30th Mostra) and Linha de Passe (2008, 37th Mostra). Salles is also the director of Central Station (1998), winner of Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival, Behind the Sun (2001), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), On the Road (2012) and Jia Zhangke, a Guy from Fenyang (2014, 38th Mostra). At the 41st Mostra, Salles exhibited the short movie When the Earth Trembles, part of the feature film Where Has the Time Gone? (2017). He produced, among others, Madame Satã (2002), Love for Sale (2006) and Habi, the Foreigner (2013), all of them screened at Mostra.