IFC Fraiburgo hosts the Chica Pelega Film Festival on Saturday
On Saturday, August 13, from eight in the morning, the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFC) in Fraiburgo hosts the Chica Pelega Film Festival. It will be a moment for high school and Youth and Adult Education (EJA) students to meet their own history, their origins. The event’s program features productions that portray the Contestado War (1912-1916), a conflict that had important battles in the Fraiburgo region.
Three short films will be screened. The first, “Kiki, o Ritual da Resistência Kaingang” (Kiki, the Kaingang Resistance Ritual; 2014), by Margot Filmes, from Chapecó, shows the revival of the most traditional Indigenous ritual of the Condá territory, which had not been held for 10 years. They show every step of this tradition, which many did not even know.
In the second production, “Olhar Contestado” (2012), directed by Joaçaba native Fabianne Balvedi and Caçador native Fernando Severo, virtual camera animations are made over photographic records by Claro Jansson – a photographer hired by the Lumber company – illustrations and photocopied drawings over documentaries of the time.
And, finally, “Larfiagem” (2017), by Herval d’Oeste native Gabi Bresola, which recovers part of what is also her own history, bringing together those who were the creators of the well-known language spoken along the railway. In the 1950s, a group of boys, then aged 8 to 15, who did odd jobs such as shining shoes or carrying travelers’ bags, invented a way of communicating so they could carry out their dealings as mischievous children, or “malandros”, as they saw themselves. It is they themselves, now 60 or 70 years old, who tell these stories. The IFC campus is located at Rua Cruz e Sousa, 89, in the Jardim das Araucárias neighborhood.
After the screening there will be a talk with Jilson Carlos Souza, caboclo and member of the Regional Forum in Defense of the Caboclo Civilization and Culture of the Contestado and of the Paulo Freire Association of Education and Popular Culture (APAFEC).
The Film Festival
After being a box-office success in its second edition, the Chica Pelega Film Festival continues through the Contestado region, in its original format, screening films alluding to the conflict, followed by a debate with the popular educator and other guests. In this context, more than 1,700 public school students have already been reached by the in-person format.
On August 11 and 12, the Festival will pass through Timbó Grande, where the last stronghold of resistance in the Contestado War was established, and will continue its course in the following months. Those interested in bringing the Chica Pelega Festival to their school or municipality should contact Pupilo through the website http://www.chicapelega.com.br
