MEMORY HOUSE

CASA DE ANTIGUIDADES

By João Paulo MIRANDA MARIA

FILM MOVEMENT - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, North America

Drama - Completed 2020


Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2020
Official Selection
Toronto - TIFF 2020
Discovery
San Sebastian FF 2020
New Directors
Curtas IFF 2020
Bergen IFF 2020
Pacific Meridian IFF 2020
Pingyao IFF 2020
Adelaide IFF 2020
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • PORTUGUESE, GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • João Paulo MIRANDA MARIA
    • Writer(s)
    • João Paulo MIRANDA MARIA
    • Producer(s)
    • Paula COSENZA (Be Bossa Entertainment), Denise GOMES (Be Bossa Entertainment), Didar DOMEHRI (Maneki Films)
    • Synopsis
    • Modern day Brazil, but lost in time. Cristovam, a native black man from the rural North, moves to a former Austrian colony in the South to work in a milk factory. Confronted with xenophobic conservative people, he feels isolated and estranged from the white world.

      He discovers an abandoned house, filled with objects and memorabilia reminding him of his origins. He settles in, reconnecting with his roots. As if this memory house were alive, more objects start to appear. Slowly, Cristovam begins a metamorphosis.

      For his feature debut, director João Paulo Miranda Maria uses spiritual and fantastical story-telling to encapsulate the social and racial tensions of modern day Brazil.

      Memory House is the only Latin American film under the Cannes 2020 Official Selection Label.