The fantastical films of the Brazil-born director Bernardo Zanotta, which have screened at FID Marseille and Locarno, fuse the familiar and the fantastical.

We’re happy to present a program of mid-length works: In WILD FRUITS (2024), set in the 16th century, Jean Aurand, after a period overseas in the Antarctic, finds refuge as a servant in the house of French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, where a series of fantastical events change the lives of these two men forever; in INSIEME INSIEME (2022), a mysterious trio takes captive an innocent tourist in the Italian lake region. Zanotta has also selected LES INTRIGUES DE SYLVIA COUSKI (Adolfo Arrieta, 1975) to screen throughout the month.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11 – 7:30 PM – W/ Q&A
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 – 7:30 PM – W/ Q&A

WILD FRUITS
dir. Bernardo Zanotta, 2024
35 min. Brazil
In Portuguese & French with English subtitles

16th Century: After a period overseas in the Antarctic France, Jean Aurand finds refuge as a servant in the house of French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, where a series of fantastical events change the lives of these two men forever.

INSIEME INSIEME
dir. Bernardo Zanotta, 2022
37 min. Brazil
In French, Italian, & Portuguese with English Subtitles

“Young Brazilian director Bernardo Zanotta appears to have made a queer farce, with the right amount of pace and joy, a film that owes much to the sheer delight in manufacturing cinematic images: frame, colours, motifs, bodies. Actors and actresses Lydia Giordano, Gustavo Jahn and Jun Ortega make up a wandering trio in the recesses of cinephile and literary memory.” – Claire Lasolle (33rd FID Marseille, 2022)

During their permanent vacation in the Italian lake region, a mysterious trio takes captive an innocent tourist.