The award-winning Brazilian feature film “Medida Provisória,” starring Taís Araújo, Seu Jorge, and Anglo-Brazilian actor Alfred Enoch, and directed by Lazáro Ramos, will be screened in a special session in New York on Wednesday, December 7, at 7 PM, at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. After the screening, Lazáro Ramos and Taís Araújo will participate in a discussion panel and answer questions from the audience present.
Called “Executive Order” in English, the film takes place in a dystopian future where the Brazilian government decrees a provisional measure as a reparation initiative for the slave-owning past, provoking a reaction in the National Congress.
The Congress then approves a measure that forces Black citizens to migrate to Africa with the intention of returning to their origins. The new law directly affects the life of the couple formed by doctor Capitú (Taís Araújo) and lawyer Antonio (Alfred Enoch), as well as their cousin, journalist André (Seu Jorge), who lives with them in the same apartment.
In this apartment, the characters debate social and racial issues, as well as share anxieties involving the change of country. Finding themselves in the center of terror and separated by the circumstances, the couple does not know if they will be able to reunite.
The feature is an adaptation of “Namíbia, Não!”, a play by Aldri Anunciação, which director and actor Lázaro Ramos directed for the theater in 2011.
The film, which marks Lazáro Ramos’s debut as a director in cinema, has won a series of awards, including here in the United States. Recently, at the main Brazilian film festival abroad, the Inffinito Film Festival, the film received three awards: Best Screenplay, Best Film, and Best Supporting Actor for Seu Jorge. Prior to that, “Medida Provisória” had already received other awards, such as Best Screenplay at the Indie Memphis Film Festival.
Lázaro Ramos also received the Man of the Year in Cinema award from GQ magazine.SERVICE
Screening of the film “Medida Provisória”
When: December 7
Time: doors open at 6:30 PM and screening at 7 PM
Where: The Chapel, Teachers College, Columbia University
525 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027, United States
Free event
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