Insolaçào (Sunstroke)

trinidad+tobago film festival 2010 screening

Year	2009
Duration	100 minutes
Type	Dramatic feature
Country	Brazil
Language	Portuguese, with English subtitles
Director(s)	Daniela Thomas, Felipe Hirsch
Rating	18 And Over
Contact	danielathomas@uol.com.br

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Insolação tells stories of unrequited love. “Love and loss. Loss, mostly,” says one character. In an empty city, scorched by the sun, young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover through buildings and over endless flatland in search of the ever-elusive love, while the film’s nostalgic narrator, Andrei, bears witness to their tales.

Based loosely on a series of stories by Anton Chekov, the various plots of the film weave together and unravel in the improbable city of Brasilia—a distorted mirror image of Soviet utopia—located in the heart of the country.

Trinidad & Tobago premiere.

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