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The first edition of the European Film Festival, “Future Challenges”, organized by the EUNIC Stockholm cluster and the European Commission, brings together 16 films that aim to “illustrate and inspire action towards environmental sustainability and the empowerment of women and girls”. It's already a week from now that this first edition will open at Zita Folkets Bio. Come and enjoy 16 movies from different parts of Europe!

Camões I.P./Embassy of Portugal in Sweden present “Fordlândia Malaise”, a documentary directed by Susana de Sousa Dias, on October 10th (Sunday) at 20.30 (room 2).

Admission is free, but reservations are required.

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Graphic design: Ivan Gedin

 

About the film: “Fordlândia Malaise” (2019), documentary by Susana de Sousa Dias,

Duration: 40 minutes.

 

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Fordlandia Malaise is a film about the memory and the present of Fordlandia, the company town founded by Henry Ford in the Amazon rain forest in 1928. Ford’s aim was to break the British rubber monopoly and produce this material in Brazil for his car production in the United States. The remains of the construction site testify to the scale of the failure of this neocolonialist endeavor that lasted less than a decade.

Nowadays, Fordlandia is a space suspended between times, between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, between utopia and dystopia, between visibility and invisibility: architectural buildings of steel, glass, and masonry still remain in use while traces of indigenous life left no marks on the ground.

Although Fordlandia is well known due to the brief Fordian period, one must not forget the history either before or after. Giving voice to the inhabitants who claim the right to write their own story and reject the ghost town label, Fordlandia Malaise blends together archival imagery, drone footage, tales and narratives, myths and songs.

Screened together with Ella Lingens

 

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