Memory House

Casa de Antiguidades

61st TIFF: Greek premiere

Cristovam, a native from the impoverished Brazilian North, moves to a town of the wealthy South, to work in a milk factory. Confronted with racism, intolerance, and prejudice, he is withdrawn in isolation and estrangement. As he settles in an abandoned house, filled with objects that reconnect him with his roots, Cristovam discovers traces of his ancestry. An elusive metamorphosis is gradually carried out, in a surreal invasion of the transcendental and the spiritual into the visible.

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Direction: João Paulo Miranda Maria

Script: João Paulo Miranda Maria

Cinematography: Benjamín Echazarreta

Editing: Benjamin Mirguet

Sound: Léo Bortolin

Music: Nicolas Becker

Actors: Antonio Pitanga, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Sam Louwyck

Production: Be Bossa Entertainment, Maneki Films

Producers: Denise Gomes, Paula Cosenzal, Didar Domehri

Co-production: Canal Brasil, Cinema Caipira

Sets: Isabelle Bittencourt

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Brazil, France

Production Year: 2020

Duration: 93'

Contact: Celluloid Dreams

João Paulo Miranda Maria

João Paulo Miranda was born on the inland side of São Paulo state in 1982. He graduated with a degree in Cinema in 2004 from Estácio de Sá College (Rio de Janeiro). He holds a Master’s degree in Multimedia from the University of Campinas. A professor at the Methodist University of Piracicaba (SP), he is also a member of the Brazilian Association of Cinematography and the founder and coordinator of the research and film practice group Kino-Οlho. Selected at the Critics’ Week in 2015, his short film Command Action captures the rhythms of a Brazilian city through a street market.