Pixote Film Screening - Latin American Film Center

Name: Pixote Film Screening - Latin American Film Center
Start: 2024-11-23T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-23T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Film Noir Cinema

Schedule

Sat Nov 23 2024 at 06:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Film Noir Cinema | Brooklyn, NY

A reminder of the forgotten children of the world, and a rebuke to those of us who forget them.
— Roger Ebert
About this Event

Join us on Saturday, November 23rd, at 6 PM at Film Noir Cinema in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, for a screening of Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (Pixote: The Law of the Weakest). Directed by Héctor Babenco in 1981, this gritty Brazilian film follows young Pixote and other street children of São Paulo as they navigate survival in a corrupt juvenile detention system.

The film will be introduced by Laura Barker, founder of the NY Brazilian Film Festival. After the screening, join a post-screening discussion with Professors Fábio Andrade of Vassar College and João Nemi Neto of Columbia University.