Cineteatro do Parque resumes regular cinema programming this Wednesday (8)


The Park opened its cinema on November 24, 1921 (Marcos Pastich/PCR Archive)

Cineteatro do Parque resumes programming this Wednesday (8). Tickets are sold at popular prices: R$10 and R$5 (half).

In this first moment of resumption, there will be sessions primarily on Tuesdays, with a majority focus on local audiovisual production.

“Cinema in the Park brings back a historical perspective and also a future that we want to see happen, with new options of theaters in this profile, on the street and in the neighborhood, as we say, with increasingly democratized access to the population, helping to expand the cinema’s encounter with the most varied audiences, as well as to form new audiences. Cineteatro do Parque resumes its place and, little by little, reoccupies a different agenda, honoring above all the consistent local production, but without ceasing to value it. opportunities open to quality international production that seeks access, outside the major commercial circuits”, says Recife’s Secretary of Culture, Ricardo Mello.

“Resuming audiovisual programming in a facility with the past and charisma of Cineteatro do Parque is giving the city back a habit, resuming the writing of an important chapter in its cultural history. It is also a way of opening up new spaces for the production chain Recife audiovisual”, adds the president of the Cidade do Recife Culture Foundation, Marcelo Canuto.

The first film to be shown, on the 8th, 14th, 21st and 28th of May, always at 7pm, will be “Sem Coração”, written and directed by Nara Normande from Alagoas, who lived in Recife for two decades, and Tião from Pernambuco.

The film, which recently premiered in theaters across the country, after being shown at the Venice Festival and winning the Félix awards for Best Film and the Redentor for Best Cinematography, during the last Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, has lasting 1h31, and takes to the coast of Alagoas, during the summer of 1996, a drama about the afflictions and passions of a group of teenagers amid social and gender tensions.

In addition to the feature film, the short films made through the Recife Incluído project, an initiative of the Secretariat of Culture and Fundação de Cultura Cidade do Recife, with the support of the Secretariat of Social Development, will be shown at the premiere and in other Cinema no Parque sessions. Human Rights, Youth and Drug Policies, which selected 10 arguments, written and submitted by beginning authors, aged between 18 and 29, from different regions of the city, to be transformed into short films scripted and shot by professional producers. In this inaugural month of regular cinematographic activities, the short film will be shown: “A Teimosia da Brasília”, by Maria Eduarda Viro%u0303es da Cunha, which tells the story of Brasília Teimosa, from the perspective and voice of its residents.

Until the end of the year, audiovisual will be a systematic feature of the Park’s programming, which has become an increasingly prestigious screening room in the city. In addition to the weekly sessions, offered by Recife City Hall, with curators dedicated to celebrating intense local and national production, the cinema will devote its state-of-the-art facilities and machinery to holding important festivals and audiovisual activations in the city, such as the MOV Festival , Animage Festival, Cine PE and Janela de Cinema Festival.

Check out the Cineteatro do Parque schedule

May

Days 8, 14, 21 and 28 – Cinema in the Park: screenings of the film “Sem Coração”, at 7pm

13th and 14th – Cine PE, at 2pm

June

Days 4, 18 and 25 – Cinema in the Park, at 7pm

Day 11 – Cinema PE

July

Days 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 – Cinema in the Park, at 7pm

August

Days 6, 13, 20 and 27 – Cinema in the Park, at 7pm

September