PLAYTIME / HORA DO RECREO (Brasil, 2025, 83′)

Friday October 3rd, at 5 p.m., Cinema Massimo, Screen 3

National premiere

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International title: Playtime
Original title: Hora do recreo
Director: Lúcia Murat
Screenplay: Lúcia Murat
Photography: Bacco Andrade
Editing: Mair Tavares, Marih Oliveira
Sound: Bernado Uzeda
Production: Taiga Filmes

With a simultaneously documentary and fictional approach, the movie describes the challenges that the Brazilian educational system has to face. Students from 14 to 19 years old discuss their problems, namely violence, racism, femicides, referencing events lived in their families. Boys and girls portray their experiences in a different environment from their classrooms, since the school withdrew any authorization to film there. Both the teachers and the director herself encourage the students to portray emotions and conflicts. In a different school, they start the rehearsal to put on stage Clara dos anjos by Lima Barreto, a 20 th century Brazilian literature classic, finding the connections between the novel’s protagonist and the present, modernizing the text.

Lúcia Murat (Rio de Janeiro, 1949) is one of the most important representatives of contemporary Brazilian cinema. A member of the left-wing extremist revolutionary movement MR-8, in 1971 she was incarcerated and tortured by the Brazilian military dictatorship. Heavily influenced by that experience and period, she has narrated both in her works Que Bom Te Ver Viva , Quase Dois Irmãos (Best Picture at Mar del Plata International Film Festival), and A Memória que me Contam . Already an author of both documentaries and fiction films, Murat is also screenwriter and producer.

Filmography (selection): Que Bom Te Ver Viva (1989), Sweet Power (1997), Brave New Land (2000), Quase Dois Irmãos (2004), Another Love Story (2007), A Long Journey (doc, 2011), A Memória que me Contam (2012), Praça Paris (2017), Ana (2020), O Mensageiro (2023), Playtime (doc, 2025).