Café com canela and the political dimensions of recent Brazilian cinema

production, representations and circulation

Abstract

This article aims to observe the political dimensions of Café com canela (Glenda Nicácio and Ary Rosa, 2017) from its production, the representations it mobilizes and the interpretations the movie acquires as it circulates. It is composed by a retrospect of the politics in Brazilian cinema, considering a sensitive direction, in the last two decades, towards discussions around gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality and social class. It also proposes a reflection on the demands of the producing agents themselves for fairer distribution in public policies. Finally, it proposes a return to filmic materiality to resume aspects of its narrative and the images it constructs, especially in a sharing of collective memory and the claim of a subjectivity.