A Festa de Léo

Box Office Around The World

Film poster "A Festa de Léo" – Film poster "A Festa de Léo"

On three weekends in August, the Schlüter Courtyard becomes a meeting place for film enthusiasts from all over the world with summery drinks and snacks. The open-air festival invites you to talk to international film stars and presents

six current cinema productions that are box office hits in their countries of origin but have not yet been shown on the big screen in Germany.

A Festa de Léo Luciana Bezerra, Gustavo Melo / Brazil 2023 / 85 Min. / Drama / Portuguese with English subtitles

Leo’s 12th birthday threatens to be a disaster when his mother Rita discovers that his father has stolen the money for the party. They live in Rio’s notorious Vidigal favela, which heats things up dangerously as his father is hunted by brutal debtors. But Rita knows the laws of Vidigal so well that she at least wants to try to override them for a short time.

It’s Leo’s 12th birthday and his mum Rita wakes him up with new soccer shoes and kisses. But what follows is anything but a ‘happy birthday’: his father Dudu has stolen the money that Rita wanted to use to finance Leo’s party. Things get even worse when armed creditors threaten Dudu’s life, if not….

A family thriller from Rio, in which the notorious Vidigal favela is not a ‘poverty porn’ backdrop, but is staged as a social labyrinth with its very own laws. By and with people who know the favela, with its football pitches and rooftops with Ipanema on the horizon well enough to move cleverly and smoothly also in front of the camera. Especially the women, who show off their elegance not only on the dance floor.

Programme

8 pm: Talk with Luciana Bezerra (Director) and Dorothee Wenner and Sidney Martins (moderator) in German

9 pm: Film

 

- 8 EUR, red 4 EUR

- FSK 12

- Entrance: Portal 5.

- Note: A severe thunderstorm may lead to the cancellation of the event.

- English, Portuguese

- Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard

- Belongs to: Box Office Around The World

Price: €8.00

Reduced price: €4.00

Next date:

• Date Friday, 23/August/2024 20:00 bis 22:25
• Venue Humboldt Forum
• Address Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin-Mitte