Café com Canela
Glenda Nicácio, Ary Rosa / BR, 2017 / 102 min.
The wonderful Café com Canela tells the story of the Brazilian Violeta and Margarida, the latter having lost her son at an early age. The power of friendship and the making of coffee with cinnamon slowly helps Margarida emerge from her isolation.
Bahia, Brazil. Margarida grieves the loss of her son. Violeta lives in the next village and suffers from her own traumatic past. She lovingly frees Margarida from her isolation with really practical rituals: cleaning, tidying and primarily with a lot of coffee with cinnamon or 'café com canela'.
Café com canela has a mainly Afro-Caribbean cast and was the first commercial film by an Afro-Brazilian filmmaker, Glenda Nicácio Rosa, in collaboration with Ary Nicácio. Their prize-laden debut is an intimate film about grief, homophobia, desire, ancestor worship and life-changing events.
Followed by a Q&A with Simone Zeefuik, and coffee with cinnamon after the screening.
Programmers of the Future
Café com canela is part of the Black Atlantic Visions programme, curated by Programmer of the Future Janilda Bartolomeu.Black Atlantic Visions is a nuanced and genre-defying programme showcasing Afro-diasporic cinema that focusses on Black outlooks, which see through colonial, consensus reality.
First cohort
This summer, three Programmers of the Future present their first film programmes in Eye. They are part of the first cohort of a traineeship for future film programmers, set up by Eye in 2022.
This is part of
Details
Director
Glenda Nicácio, Ary Rosa
Production year
2017
Country
BR
Original title
Café com Canela
Length
102 min.
Language
Portuguese
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Programmers of the Future 2023
This summer, three Programmers of the Future present their first film programmes in Eye Filmmuseum. Programmers Janilda Bartolomeu, Korée Wilrycx and Kseniia Bespalova are among the very first to take part in Eye’s talent development programme for future film programmers, set up in 2022. The programme will feature cinema from the African diaspora that counters the notion of a singular reality, female artists on masculinity and alternative visual geographies of the former Soviet Union.
Share your love for film and become a member of the Eye Society.