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Família AlcântaraThe Alcantara Family
The Alcantara Familiy is an intimate encounter with a very extended family group of about 70 people who constitute a community of descendants whose origins are tracked back to the Congo basin region of Africa. The film explores the unique culture of a former Bantu slave population. Its descendants examine how their history affects their interior lives and present choice of practicing and preserving original customs. Through generations, oral history has remained the only source from which theatre, music and the Congada (artistic demonstration characteristic of the group) have remained alive. The Alcantara Family demonstrates how scraps of memories provide them with a historical and spiritual connection, a source of identity and, therefore, a source of strength and validation.
Brazil - 2004 - 56 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour
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