FILM SCREENING
We would like to invite you to a free screening on the evening before the Contagion & Containment graduate conference of a fascinating quasi-documentary from Brazil - or, as you will see, sort of from Brazil. Sandra Kogut's A Hungarian Passport will be showing at 7:30 at the Cambridge Graduate Union, so come and join us for a good way to get your thoughts flowing on some of the ideas surrounding contagion and containment. All are welcome, whether you are attending the conference or not. See synopsis below.
When: 7:30pm 20th May
Where: Cambridge Graduate Union, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX
A Hungarian Passport
Sandra Kogut | 2001 | 71mins | Portuguese, French, Hungarian and English | English subtitles
A fascinating quasi-documentary by Brazilian director Sandra Kogut, Um Passaporte Húngaro is the irreverent but moving story of a Brazilian woman's pursuit of a Hungarian passport while living in France, two generations after her grandfather fled anti-Semitic persecution in Hungary for Brazil in the 1930s. We see her encounter mixtures of encouragement, rejection and confusion as she battles extraordinary levels of bureaucracy, and discovers the various ways different nations try to contain their populations and guard against immigration.
At this time when so many are describing immigration in terms of contagious disease, Um Passaporte Húngaro offers interesting perspectives on national and personal perceptions of immigration at the turn of the century, and shines a questioning light on how people's roots, experiences and documentation can be contagious, or contained, in the formation of our identity(ies).
When: 7:30pm 20th May
Where: Cambridge Graduate Union, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX
A Hungarian Passport
Sandra Kogut | 2001 | 71mins | Portuguese, French, Hungarian and English | English subtitles
A fascinating quasi-documentary by Brazilian director Sandra Kogut, Um Passaporte Húngaro is the irreverent but moving story of a Brazilian woman's pursuit of a Hungarian passport while living in France, two generations after her grandfather fled anti-Semitic persecution in Hungary for Brazil in the 1930s. We see her encounter mixtures of encouragement, rejection and confusion as she battles extraordinary levels of bureaucracy, and discovers the various ways different nations try to contain their populations and guard against immigration.
At this time when so many are describing immigration in terms of contagious disease, Um Passaporte Húngaro offers interesting perspectives on national and personal perceptions of immigration at the turn of the century, and shines a questioning light on how people's roots, experiences and documentation can be contagious, or contained, in the formation of our identity(ies).
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