BARREN LIVES (VIDAS SECAS) Tribute to Americas Film Festival

AFI Film Fest is honored to host this special screening of the film that helped bring Brazil’s Cinema Novo movement to international attention. Often compared to Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, this landmark film tells the inspirational story of one family’s pilgrimage through the sertao (Brazil’s rugged northeast) in search of a better life. “With its soberly critical realism, its sterling austerity, and its implicit optimism, it represents first phase Cinema Novo at its best.”Robert Stam and Randal Johnson, Brazilian Cinema