2nd Chica Pelega Film Festival closes in Caçador

The 2nd Chica Pelega Film Festival reaches its final destination. More than 1,300  students from 22 public schools and one private school in the municipalities of Campos Novos, Curitibanos, Monte Carlo and Brunópolis passed through Cine Lúmine in Campos Novos (11) and Curitibanos (18). The reason? To watch short films by Santa Catarina filmmakers and producers on themes involving the Contestado War. On Monday, the 25th, and Tuesday, the 26th, it will be Caçador’s turn (Queluz – Rua Onio Pedrassani, 645 – Centro). On Monday (25), at 7:30 pm, the session is free and open to the public. The Project is carried out by the Government of the State of Santa Catarina, through the Santa Catarina Cultural Foundation (FCC), with funds from the Federal Government and the Aldir Blanc Law, and is produced by VMS Produções and Pupilo TV of Joaçaba. 

The Festival bears the name of the warrior Chica Pelega, i.e.  Francisca Roberta, recovered through the oral memory of the Contestado Conflict, and also proposes, through cinema, an appreciation of the oral culture of the caboclo people and an attempt at historical reparation, since textbooks – or official historiography – say little about those who lost the war – called genocide  by historian Vicente Telles: “It’s cannon against machete, is that war or genocide?”. 

The Contestado War (1912-1916) was the bloodiest civil conflict in the history of Brazil. At that time, the Brazilian government handed over a 15-kilometer strip of land on each side of the São Paulo–Rio Grande railway to foreign capital, freeing up the exploitation mainly of timber, which was plentiful. The people who lived there and farmed for their subsistence were expelled from their lands – for which they had no paper granting them ownership. And this gave foreign capital the right to kill them if necessary to secure that possession.

During the Festival, in the daytime sessions, students will watch short films from different decades with the aim of uniting school activities and cinema. The films are: Irani (1983), by Rogério Sganzerla, Olhar Contestado (2012), by Fabiane Balvedi and Fernando Severo, and Larfiagem (2017), by Gabi Bresola.

In the evening session, the audience will watch the feature film Terra Cabocla (2015) by Márcia Paraíso and Ralf Tambke and two short films – Olhar Contestado (2012) and Irani (1983).

The films,  curated by Joaçaba filmmaker Rudolfo Auffinger, are shorts with an average length of 15 minutes, ideal for the classroom, questioning the official photographs of the war and addressing the language created by Herval d’Oeste natives 40 years after the conflict to communicate at the railway station, the well-known grinfia or Larfia. The shortest film is a tribute to renowned Joaçaba director Rogério Sganzerla, who also had a connection with the place where the war began. After the screening there will be a debate mediated by the guests.

Details

April 25 – Monday Time: 7:30 pm Venue: Cine Lúmine / Queluz Rua Onio Pedrassani, 645 – Centro – Caçador

Program and tickets at http://www.chicapelega.com.br