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Vera (film)
''Vera'' is a 1986 Brazilian drama film written and directed by Sérgio Toledo. Shot in São Paulo, it stars Ana Beatriz Nogueira, Norma Blum, Raul Cortez and Carlos Kroeber. The film is based on the life of Anderson Bigode Herzer, a transgender man most known as the author of poems book ''A queda para o alto'' (''Descending Upwards''). Plot Anderson (birth name "Vera") is a transsexual man who lives in a correctional facility for young people. After writing a book of verses about his life as a young troubled youth, he meets a benevolent, educated man, who helps him. The man even allows him to spend some time at his home, and arranges for a job for him as an intern in his office. He comes into his gender identity and begins to dress as a man, eventually falling in love with a woman and passing as cisgender to her family. The film succeeds in focusing on Anderson's personality and feelings until his tragic death. Cast * Ana Beatriz Nogueira as Vera * Norma Blum * Raul Cortez ...
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Sérgio Toledo
Sérgio Toledo Segall or simply Sérgio Toledo (born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1956) is the son of actress Beatriz Segall and an award-winning Brazilian screenwriter and director most known for his film Vera, that won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Ana Beatriz Nogueira and a nomination for Golden Bear (best film) at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. Filmography *1979: '' Braços cruzados, máquinas paradas'' *1987: '' Vera'' *1991: ''One Man's War ''One Man's War'' is a 1991 television drama film set in Paraguay in 1976, under the dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner. It is based on the true story of Joel Filártiga (played by Anthony Hopkins Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born ...'' References External links * 1956 births Living people Brazilian film directors Mass media people from São Paulo Lafer-Klabin family {{Brazil-film-director-stub ...
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Biographical Films About Writers
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of their life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Works in diverse media, from literature to film, form the genre known as biography. An authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at times, participation of a subject or a subject's heirs. An autobiography is written by the person themselves, sometimes with the assistance of a collaborator or ghostwriter. History At first, biogra ...
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1986 LGBT-related Films
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of ...
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1980s Biographical Drama Films
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1986 Films
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. * January 13– 24 – South Yemen Civil War. * January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. * January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of dates with Dictator Idi Amin's ...
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Rosely Roth
Rosely Roth (August 21, 1959 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil – August 28, 1990 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil) is considered one of the pioneers in the history of the LGBT movement of Brazil (known in Portuguese as the ''Movimento Homosexual Brasileiro''). Biography Early life and education The daughter of Jewish parents, she attended both Jewish and non-Jewish schools while growing up in her native São Paulo. In 1981, she obtained a degree in Philosophy from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo; and in 1985-1986 she graduated again from the same university with a degree in Anthropology, having dedicated her studies on lesbian life and sexuality in São Paulo. Women's movement Roth started her direct participation in the women's movement at the beginning of 1981 by attending meetings at the ''Grupo Lésbico Feminista'' (1979–1990) and at the ''SOS Mulher'' (1980–1993). In addition, in 1981 Roth and Míriam Martinho, another pioneer of the Brazilian ...
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Three Continents Festival
The Festival des 3 Continents is an annual film festival held since 1979 in Nantes, France, and is devoted to the cinemas of Asia, and Africa and Latin America. It was founded by Philippe and Alain Jalladeau.Deccan Herald
, "Films from three continents", Retrieved 12-15-2008
The top award in the festival's competition is the balloon shaped Montgolfiere d'or. In conjunction with the festival is the Produire au Sud, or Producers of the South, a project that provides funding to independent film productions from Asia, Africa and Latin America.


List of Montgolfière d'or winners


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37th Berlin International Film Festival
The 37th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 20 February to 3 March 1987. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Soviet Union film ''Tema'' directed by Gleb Panfilov. The retrospective was in honour of Armenian-American film and theatre director Rouben Mamoulian. The homage was dedicated to French couple Jean-Louis Barrault, actor and director, and Madeleine Renaud, actress. It was titled ''Renaud-Barrault au cinéma''. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor (Austria) - Jury President * Juliet Berto, actress and director (France) * Kathleen Carroll, film critic (United States) * Callisto Cosulich, film critic (Italy) * Victor Dyomin, actor and screenwriter (Soviet Union) * Reinhard Hauff, director and screenwriter (Germany) * Edmund Luft, playwright, film critic and film historian (West Germany) * Jiří Menzel, actor, director and screenwriter (Czechoslovakia) * Dan Pița, director and scr ...
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Silver Bear For Best Actress
The Silver Bear for Best Actress (german: Silberner Bär/Beste Darstellerin) was an award presented at the Berlin International Film Festival from 1956 to 2020. It was given to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance and was chosen by the International Jury from the films in the Competition slate at the festival. Beginning with the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, the award was replaced with two gender-neutral categories, Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance and Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival held in 1956, Elsa Martinelli was the first winner of this award for her performance in '' Donatella'', and Paula Beer was the last winner in this category for her role in ''Undine'' at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in 2020. History The award was first presented in 1956, and can be for lead or supporting roles. The prize was not awarded on four occasions (1969, 1973–74, and 1990). In 197 ...
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Festival De Brasília
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced entert ...
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Imara Reis
Imara dos Reis Ferreira (born February 14, 1948) better known as Imara Reis, is a Brazilian stage, television and film actress. Biography Imara Reis began acting on stage at Colégio Santa Marcelina. She's Graduated by the Universidade Federal Fluminense, where she also graduated at Theater, in the Grupo Laboratório, alongside Tonico Pereira and José Carlos Gondim. In 1973, invited by Tonico Pereira, Imara becomes a member of Grupo Chegança, whose notorious members are Ilva Niño, Elba Ramalho, Cátia de França and Tânia Alves Tânia Maria Rego Alves (born September 12, 1953 in Bonito de Santa Fé) is a Brazilian actress, dancer, singer and businesswoman. Her most recent work was the telenovela '' Araguaia'', Walther Negrão, Rede Globo. She also acts as an entrepre .... In the late 1970s, on travel to France, she played Sílvia in her first short film of the same name, directed by Helena Rocha. In 2010, her biography, written by Thiago Sogayar Bechara. was publis ...
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