All screenings (except were noted)
will take place at:

MoMA Film at The Gramercy Theatre
127 East 23rd Street (at Lexington Avenue), New York City

Box office: (212) 777-4900 or visit the MoMa site

Houve Uma Vez Dois Verões / Two Summers
Written and directed by Jorge Furtado (Brazil, 2002, 75 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
Chico, a teenager on vacation in the "biggest and worst beach in the world," in Rio Grande do Sul, meets Roza at a pinball center and falls head over heels in love. A breezy summer charmer of a film about young people and their silly, yet serious games of love and leisure.

Wednesday, July 23, 7:00pm at Socrates Sculpture Park*
Friday, July 25, 2:00pm
Sunday, July 27, 6:00pm

* Opening night screening is produced by Socrates Sculpture Park as part of On The Waterfront in collaboration with the American Museum of the Moving Image and Partnerships for Parks, made possible by The J.M. Kaplan Fund.

Dois Perdidos Numa Noite Suja / Two Lost in a Dirty Night
Directed by José Joffily (Brazil, 2002, 100 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
This sensitive film explores the relationship between Paco and Tonho, two of the many illegal Brazilian immigrants barely holding on to the fringes of New York City. In

Thursday, July 24, 2:00pm
Saturday, July 26, 1:00pm

Durval Discos / Durval Records
Written and directed by Anna Muylaert (Brazil, 2002, 96 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
A detective story with a surrealist flavor featuring Durval and his mother, Carmita, who have been living for years in isolation at the back of his record store.

Thursday, July 24, 4:30pm
Friday, July 25, 6:45pm

Janela da Alma / Window of the Soul
Written and directed by João Jardim &Walter Carvalho (Brazil, 2001, 73 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
A great cast of characters, including writer and Nobel laureate José Saramago, musician Hermeto Paschoal, filmmakers Wim Wenders and Agnès Varda, and others give their personal and surprising insights into various aspects of vision and the meaning of seeing or not seeing in a world saturated with images.

Thursday, July 24, 7:00pm (introduced by the filmmakers)
Saturday, July 26, 6:00pm

Edifício Master / Master: A Building in Copacabana
Directed by Eduardo Coutinho (Brazil, 2002, 100 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
For seven days, a film crew headed by Coutinho, Brazil's master of documentary filmmaking, shot the everyday life of people living in "the Master," a building located in Copacabana, a block away from the beach.

Friday, July 25, 4:30pm
Saturday, July 26, 8:30pm

Separações / Breaking Up
Directed by Domingos de Oliveira (Brazil, 2002, 116 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
A delicious romantic comedy about the four stages of a breakup-denial, negotiation, revolt, and acceptance-set among talkative, self-involved cariocas.

Friday, July 25, 9:00pm
Sunday, July 27, 2:00pm

Desmundo
Directed by Alain Fresnot (Brazil, 2002, 100 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
It is 1570, and the queen of Portugal has sent a group of orphans to Brazil to marry the first colonizers. Among them is the sensitive and religious Oribela, who reluctantly follows her new husband Francisco back to his sugar plantation to be mistress of the house and mother to his white sons.

Saturday, July 26, 3:30pm
Sunday, July 27, 4:30pm

Antonio das Mortes /
O dragao da maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro
Directed by Glauber Rocha (Brazil, 1969, 95min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
"In open-air opera and silent shuffling ballet, spoken verse and sung lore, melodrama of the absurd and gritty Western, Rocha transforms the lore of the cangaçeiros to his own flamboyant use to show `the two faces of vengeance -- hatred and love'" (Pacific Film Archive).

Preceded by:
Militancy / Militância
(Carlos Adriano, Brazil, 2002, 10min.)
Between 1874 and 1887, the photographer Militão made a series designed for magic lantern. These six images and his self-portrait are a rare prototype of pre-cinema in Brazil.

Monday, July 28, 6:00pm and 8:00pm