FVC 15th edition Geneva 2nd prize

The jury of the 15th IFHP INternational Housing and Planning Film and Video competition 2006 awarded the second prize to the Brazilian film:

Monte Verde, directed by Luiz Bargmann and Silvio Cordeiro.

The jury report states:

"In the second prize winner, "Monte Verde", from Brazil, a poisonous spread of slum over the idyllic countryside is shown through the rich fabric of baroque images and jittery, hand held camera.

We are faced with a brewing conflict between stifling and crumbling old order of closely knit family farms and chaos of haphazardly built slum of the poor.

The subtle irony of the film and the success of its narrative structure stems from the fact that both disgruntled land-owners as well as destitute poor own their very existence to the globalizations.

Ones support it without realizing what it really means or entails and others know little if anything about it.

Yet, both camps while desperately clinging to what they have, hope for the salvation from remote and nameless forces beyond their knowledge or understanding." 

The film is divided in 5 chapters of 5 minutes each.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Last Updated @ Thursday, 22 May 2008