About Carnival / Sobre CarneVAL
Zoë Beer
This short film translates Zoë Beer’s sensory impressions of Carnival in Olinda and Recife, Brazil. Through images and poetic text, it explores the freedom of bodies in this moment outside ordinary time.
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- 25 Feb 25
- Pôle Sud, Lausanne
- 19h ouverture des portes
- Light refreshments
- 20h projection suivie de discussions
- ages 12+
- Free entry · pay what you wish on the way out
The event
Évasion.S
What if escaping simply meant imagining that another life is possible? From Carnival to outer space, through war and the stories we invent, four films explore different ways of getting away. Escaping a role, a reality, everyday life or a predetermined destiny — to seek a little freedom elsewhere.
The films
Angela
Marilia Nogueira
Angela lives alone and collects diagnoses for illnesses she has never had. Her fiction remains unshaken until Sueli arrives and offers a glimpse of another way of living.
Exit Through the Cuckoo’s Nest
Fuga para o Manicômio
Nikola Ilić
This personal essay documentary tells the story of a soldier who never wanted to be one. His decision never to pull the trigger led him to resistance and eventually to military prison. Feigning mental illness, he leaves the front and returns to Belgrade through a psychiatric hospital — on the day NATO begins bombing the country.
Sideral
Carlos Segundo
In Natal, northeastern Brazil, the historic first launch of a Brazilian rocket is about to take place. A couple lives with their two children near the space center: he is a mechanic, she a domestic worker, but she dreams of other horizons…
Durée : 57’
After the films
The Le Renversé team facilitates a conversation with the audience around the questions raised by the programme.
Free entry · pay what you wish on the way out · 19h · 20h
