FORBIDDEN TO FORBID (PROIBIDO PROIBIR)
A film directed by Jorge Durán
Brazil, 2006 - 100 mins. (English Subtitles)


Come and experience the vibrancy of the Discovering Latin America film festival by seeing the opening night film of ‘Proibido Proibir’!

This is a unique opportunity to see a great film and to have the chance to pose any questions to the director himself.

Date: 23rd November 2006
Time: 8pm
Place: Odeon Covent Garden, Shaftesbury Avenue (Off Cambridge Circus)
£12. Booking recommended. Click here to book.
The Story: Leon is a sociology undergraduate, whose girlfriend Leticia, an architecture student, falls in love with medicine student Paulo (played by Caio Blat), Leon’s best friend and roommate. Due to Leticia’s feelings the triangle never consummates thus provoking tension between them. All three study at the Federal University. They get to know Rosalina, a terminal patient at the University Hospital where Paulo is doing his internship. When trying to find information about her two sons, the students experience the violence of the city. A tragic experience will fortify Paulo and Leticia’s love and binds together the three friends.


JORGE DURÁN, Chilean, living in Brazil since 1973, is a recognized scriptwriter and film director. FORBIDDEN TO FORBID won the 2003 Brazilian Ministry of Culture Contest to sponsor low budgets films. He is also a script-writing teacher at two Brazilian universities


Forbidden to Forbid was shot during 6 weeks, on location at the periphery of Rio and the Federal University, sites far from the traditional tourist neighborhood, not often shown in films.

“We wanted to take a close look at the situations we were interested to reveal: the relationship between university students and their connection to their country. We filmed them at the University, which provides a path to the future and helps them face the tough reality of an underdeveloped, unfair and violent, but still beautiful country.” (Director’s notes)

For more info on the DLA Film Festival programme
http://www.discoveringlatinamerica.org