Our next "Best of VLAFF" screening is coming up on April 16th! We will be presenting the Brazilian documentary, THE HYPERWOMEN, winner of the Best Documentary Award at VLAFF 2012.
If you purchase your ticket between now and April 9th, you will receive a second ticket free!
AS HIPER MULHERES/ Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, Takumã Kuikuro/ Brazil.
Jury Statement:
"The intergenerational contract has rarely been examined with more joy, humanity and ribald spirit than in the winning film of the 2012 Al Jazeera Documentary competition. We, the jury, are very happy to give the award to the Brazilian film As hiper mulheres (The Hyperwomen). The three filmmakers, Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, and Takumã Kuikuro provide a full immersion in the lives of the Kuikuro people of Upper Xingu in central Brazil, as they prepare and perform an all-female festival of singing and dancing... and wrestling. This is no ethnography in the traditional sense, but a beautiful intermingling of perception and candid sensibility that gives rise to a playful, yet deeply respectful film, shot, which is unique, by three members of the Kuikuro people themselves."