Latin American Institute Film Screenings
Ventos de Agosto (August Winds)
Directed by Gabriel Mascaro
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
7:30 PM - 9:00 PMMelnitz Hall 1409
UCLA James Bridges Theater
Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal village. She is involved with Jeison, who also works on the coconut farm and who free dives for lobster and octopus in his spare time. During the month of August, when tropical storms pound the coastline, a researcher registering the sound of the trade winds emanating from the Intertropical Convergence Zone arrives in their village. The high tides and the growing winds mark the following days of the village and a surprise discovery takes Shirley and Jeison on a journey that confronts them with the duel between life and death, loss and memory, the wind and the sea.
77 minutes | In Portuguese with English subtitles
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Special Instructions
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For more information please contact
Vanessa Pinheiro Tel: 310-206-6640
pinheiro@international.ucla.edu
Download File: 11-04-15-VentosdeAgosto-3u-mnj.pdf
Sponsor(s): Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Consulate General of Brazil- Los Angeles, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies.