Formosa Beach

Synopsis

Like any industrious coastal town or city, Rio de Janeiro's port region has always been a hub for the confluence of cultures, nationalities and identities. Since 2013, it has also formed the basis of a research project for filmmaker Julia De Simone. Her third feature-length film – which was supported by IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund in 2014 – shifts away from straightforward documentary and towards a more fictionalised form as it presents the story of Muanza, a woman born in the Kingdom of Kongo in the early nineteenth century and trafficked to Brazil, who awakens to find herself in the present, roaming the streets of Rio’s rapidly changing port region, known as ‘Pequena Africa’, or Little Africa.

Main Cast

Lucília Raimundo

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Samira Carvalho

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Maria d'Aires

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Mãe Celina de Xangô

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Filipa Reis Julia De Simone Luana Melgaço
Editing	Editor	Ricardo Pretti
Directing	Director	Julia De Simone
Writing	Writer	Julia De Simone Aline Portugal Mariana Luiza
Art	Production Design	Ana Paula Cardoso
Sound	Sound Designer	Carlos Abreu
	Music	Marco Scarassatti
Camera	Director of Photography	Flávio Rebouças
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