I Seek Your Help to Burya Man
Director：Anderson Bardot
Screenwriter：Anderson Bardot
Cast：Fagner Soares, Leona Jhovs, Margareth Galvão, Guaja, Higor Campagnaro, Miguel
Producer：Anderson Bardot
Cinematographer：Willian Rubim
Running Time：20min
Region：Espírito Santo, Brazil
Year：2023
Language：Portuguese, Nheengatu, Calon
Production Company：Vale Encantado Filmes
SYNOPSIS
Empire of Brazil, 1870. A queer indigenous body slowly dies on the cross while a transgender Romani woman is banned by her people. A half-breed soldier stands in the middle of the way. A child and an old woman cross their stories like destined lines on the palm of a hand.
Director Biography
Emerging Artists Award Winner at the Out South Queer Film Festival (USA, 2021), Anderson Bardot is an artist and filmmaker from Espírito Santo, Brazil. Bardot is the founder of the production film company Vale Encantado Filmes and holds a degree in cinema and audiovisual media from UFES. Anderson Bardot is the director, screenwriter, and producer of the short film “Inabitáveis/The Uninhabitable Ones“, which premiered at the 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020 and participated in more than 80 film festivals and screenings around the world, winning 13 awards. In 2023, Bardot came back to the 52nd edition of IFFR in order to release their new short film “Procuro Teu Auxílio Para Enterrar Um Homem/I Seek Your Help to Bury a Man“. The film has already been selected for 12 international festivals and won a prize for best cinematography at the 11th Nyack International Film Festival (USA, 2023) and Best Director at the 9th Santos Film Fest.
Director's Statement
In “I Seek Your Help To Bury a Man” the characters’ dissident bodies are forced to inhabit their skin first in order to later detach themselves from the veils of imprisonment and thus, inhabit the world. As a screenwriter and a director, I seek a historical approach set in idyllic Brazilian landscapes. My period narrative is polyphonic as well as the main characters; drilling, crossing, and sewing in and out of history and magic. Everything seems either a dream or a nightmare, and the audience is not able to take their bodies off the screen because every detail in this movie is a brief visceral touch.
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