In this program, experience two films selected by Brazilian curator and film scholar Janaína Oliveira, past programmer of the Flaherty Film Seminar.

With Insan (Human Being), Sudanese filmmaker Ibrahim Shaddad provides a dramatic and powerful account of the trials and alienation of a Sudanese villager in a large city. Shot entirely without dialogue, the film's innovative use of sound helps tell the story of a shepherd who leaves his wife and herd to settle in a nearby town. (Ibrahim Shaddad/Sudanese Film Group, 1997, 27 minutes)

Followed by Temporada (Long Way Home), a film that follows Juliana as she takes a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, moving from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she adapts to her new life, meeting people and discovering new horizons, trying to overcome her past. (André Novais Oliveira, 2020, 113 minutes)

Image caption: Still from André Novais Oliveira’s Temporada (Long Way Home), courtesy of Vitrine Filmes