In ‘Rejeito,’ Brazilian filmmaker Pedro de Filippis melds together on-site, direct activism, an urgent cause and the cinematic reflection on the subject, this latter element usually arriving only later. Following a state councilor waging a frontal battle against official corruption, the film blossoms into a tonic and moving portrait of a community bent on resisting, defending its dignity and, above all, staying alive. The stakes are huge: faced with the chaotic economic development of a region at the mercy of a multinational mining company, these people are struggling less to keep their own homes from the prospects of unjustified expropriation – but to save millions of Brazilians from a dam that is growing weaker and threatens to collapse and destroy everything in its path. Nor would it be the first time: it has happened before. Given its political preoccupation, de Filippis’ film urges a better grounding in the reality and history of one's own community. Clearly opposed to the anti-social turn of the rapacious capitalist model, Rejeito takes the form of a testimony to the need for action and solidarity. (Victor Morozov)
Cinematography Pedro de Filippis
Editing Luiz Pretti
Screenplay Pedro de Filippis
Production Leonardo Mecchi, Bronte Stahl
Sound Daniel Nunes
Music Paulo Santos, Gustavo Cunha
Producing company Enquadramento Produções
Distributor company More Than
AUDIO: Portuguese
SUBTITLE: Romanian, English
awards and festivals
Festivals & Awards
Cinéma du Réel (France)
Hotdocs (Canada)
FICA - Festival Internacional de Cinema e Vídeo Ambiental (Brazil) -Best Director Award
A bientôt j'espère - Cinéma éphémère (France)
Festival Brésil en Mouvements (France)
CineEco (Portugal) - Prémio da Juventude Longa-metragem em língua portuguesa
Mostra CineBH (Brazil)
Panoramica (Sweden)
Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival (Brazil)
Camden International Film Festival (USA)
Indie Memphis Film Festival (USA)
Terra di Tutti Film Festival (Italy)
Science New Wave Festival (USA)
IDFA - Best of Fests (The Netherlands)
Forumdoc.bh (Brazil)
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08
April,
Monday
Cinemateca Eforie
6:00 PM
75'
* Competition / Screening followed by a Q&A with the Producer
Bronte Stahl
Bronte Stahl
Bronte Stahl (1993) is a filmmaker from Westerly, RI, USA. He graduated from the European itinerant MFA program DocNomads and is an alumnus of the Flaherty Seminar Fellowship, IDFA Project Space, Eurodoc and Points North Fellowship. The films he directs including Puiet (2022), Terril (2019) and Lungs (2017) have premiered at festivals such as Venice Critics Week (Best Short Film), Rotterdam and DocLisboa, respectively. As a producer, he is compelled to elevate emerging international voices in non-fiction cinema. This work has been supported by the Sundance Documentary Fund, DocSociety US, British Film Institute, and LEF Foundation, among others. His first feature as a producer, Rejeito (2023) by Pedro de Filippis, premiered at Cinéma du Réel and screened at HotDocs, Camden, IDFA and many others. Currently he holds a Fulbright scholarship to Romania in the field of filmmaking.
10
April,
Wednesday
Cinema Union
6:00 PM
75'
* Competition /
Screening followed by a discussion with Olga Popescu - "Declic"