HUELVA, Nov. 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Brazilian Lázaro Ramos presented this Saturday his debut as a feature film director, ‘Provisional Measure’, which opened the screenings of the 47th edition of the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival after the Opening Gala.
Ramos, who is immersed in the filming of his second film, has connected with Huelva through a videoconference, as explained by the organization of the festival in a statement.
‘Provisional measure’, an adaptation of the play ‘Namíbia, Não!’ by Aldri Anunciação, presents a dystopian future in Brazil in which a government orders all citizens with African ancestry to leave the continent. This approach serves to present a resistance movement, which inspires the nation.
Ramos explained to the audience of the Iberoamericano that he paid attention to the story of Anunciação because it seemed to him a “great alert about things that we do not want to happen.”
‘Provisional measure’, he pointed out, seeks to reinforce that message. “This film is precisely for that, it is an alert, to think where we are and where we can go,” he said. To questions from journalists about the possibility that an approach such as the one presented in the film could become a reality, Ramos has responded by acknowledging that “exclusion is perennial, it is constant” at the present time. “We live it now, plus an extreme like this, I don’t know if more can happen. I’m working to prevent it, that’s why I made this dystopia, precisely so that we can raise or plan utopia,” he said.
The Brazilian director has been convinced that cinema can help change reality. “I think that cinema is a weapon that can change minds, I make films for that, so that tragedies are not perennial,” he said, assuring that “talking about dreams is important to plan a fairer future.”
In ‘Provisional Measure’, starring Alfred Enoch, Seu Jorge and Taís Araújo, Ramos makes “a mixture of genres” as the film goes from comedy to thriller and, from there, to drama, as the director himself explained.
Now, Ramos has radically changed genre, since his second feature film, as he explained in his virtual meeting with the Huelva Festival, is a musical romantic comedy with young people in Brazil. “It is a tribute to the music made in my country and it also has a social theme because it is something that is in my heart, I am making a film to look at the future with an incentive for young people to assume their responsibility in the world,” he explained .
Brazilian actor, television presenter, director, writer and voice actor, Lázaro Ramos began his acting career with the group Flock of Olodum Theater, in Salvador, and is best known for his portrayal of João Francisco dos Santos in the film ‘ Madame Satã ‘, a role with which he won the Colón de Oro for Best Actor at the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival in 2002.
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