Ainda Assim (en)

Ainda Assim

Chosen in: 

First movie: 

Premier film

Director: 

Lillah Halla

Country: 

  • Brazil

Year: 

2023

Length: 

92 min

Scriptwriter: 

Lillah Halla, María Elena Morán

Editor: 

Eva Randolph, Jeanne Oberson, Lillah Halla

Composer: 

Maria Beraldo, Badsista

Director of photography: 

Wilssa Esser

Actors: 

Domenica Dias (Sofia), Loro Bardot (Bel), Grace Passô (Sol), Glaucia Vandeveld (Glória), Rômulo Braga (João)

Production: 

Arissas
Manjericão Filmes

Coproduction: 

Cimarrón Cine
In Vivo Films

Synopsis : 

Teenage Sofia, on the eve of a career-defining volleyball championship, makes the unwanted discovery that she is pregnant. Caught up in her initial moment of fear and panic, Sofia tries to obtain an illegal abortion but in the conservative community that surrounds her she instead becomes a target: the decision about her future seems to be in everyone's hands but hers. The herd chasing her is fierce, but neither she nor those who love her are willing to surrender to the violent, blind swarm.

Prix: 

PRIX SPÉCIAL CINÉ+ EN CONSTRUCTION au festival Cinélatino 2023

PRIX DES DISTRIBUTEUR·TRICES ET EXPLOITANT·ES EUROPÉEN·NES au festival Cinélatino 2023

PRIX WIP PARADISO au festival Cinélatino 2023

Supports: 

Ancine/Fsa/Brde
Brazil RioFilme – Brazil Fonds Film Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine – France Aide à la production Région Île-de-France – France Département de la Charente-Maritime – France Programme Ibermedia – Brazil/Uruguay INCAU (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Audiovisual de Uruguay) Uruguay

Director's biography: 

Lillah Halla is a brazilian filmmaker graduated from EICTV, Cuba. Her short film Menarca (2020), was one of the ten selected at the Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week, licensed by Canal + and MUBI. Menarca was awarded at TIFF -Tirana (2021), Toulouse (2021), Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (2020) and Curta Cinema (2020). Ainda Assim is her first feature film. Her second feature, Flehmen, under development, was part of Full Circle Lab Nouvelle Aquitaine and Sam Spiegel Jerusalem Lab in 2021/2022.

Filmography: 

If I can ́t dance, this is not my Revolution (2014) 16 min
Awards:
Best Film FEPEC Prize Janela do Cinema de Recife
Best Experimental Film Festival des Films du Monde Montreal
Best director Semana dos Realizadores - Rio de Janeiro
Festivals selection:
Biarritz Amerique Latine International Competition
Films du Monde Montreal
Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife
Semana dos Realizadores
Drama Film Festival Greece
Uruguay International Film Festival

Menarca  (2020) 22 min
Awards
Grand Prize Best Short Film (Golden Owl) Tirana Film Festival
Public Award for the Best Short film Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse
Promotional Award Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Best Director Award in Curta Cinema
Festival selections:
2020 World Premiere in Semaine de la Critique Cannes
Nouveau Cinéma Montreal
Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de la Habana
Festival de Tiradentes
Panorama Coisa de Cinema
Tampere International Film Festival
Glasgow Short Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival
Brussels Film Festival
São Paulo Short Film Festival

Production notes: 

Ainda Assim es una coproducción de las empresas brasileñas Arissas y Manjericão Filmes. Fundada en 2008 por Clarissa Guarilha, Arissas coprodujo títulos como A alegria (Cannes 2010), Tão Longe é Aqui (Mejor Película Nuevos Directores Rio IFF 2013) y Las Vacaciones de Hilda (SSIFF 2021). Fundada en 2007 por Rafaella Costa, Manjericão Filmes coprodujo títulos de éxito como la reciente Meu nome é Bagdá (2020), Oso de Cristal al Mejor Largometraje en la Berlinale Generation 14+.