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IDFA 2002

Rio, a Day in August

Rio, a Day in August
Maria Ramos
Netherlands
2002
52 min
n.a.
Festival history
Filmmaker Maria Ramos returns to Rio de Janeiro, twenty years after she was there as a child. In the city, she takes the train from Campo Grande to Central do Brasil, the bustling central station of Rio de Janeiro. She meets a few regular passengers, who make this trip every day to work: a nurse, a mechanic of refrigerating systems, a cleaning woman and two boys who sell banana candies on the train. Through these protagonists, the film presents an image of life in this city, at a quiet tempo. It is just a day in August, but meanwhile substantial issues are addressed: the two lads talk nonchalantly about their absent fathers and how badly these men treat their mothers; the nurse attends a child delivery in a hospital; the cleaning woman calmly tells her employer how her husband died; and it turns out that the mechanic lives for his music. RIO, EEN DAG IN AUGUSTUS / RIO, A DAY IN AUGUST was made as part of a series of Travelogues, for which fifteen Dutch filmmakers, commissioned by the Humanistische Omroep and production company Pieter van Huystee Film and TV, set out with a modest crew and a small DV camera to film a rail journey.
Credits
World Sales
    NPO Sales
    NPO Sales
Screening copy
    Pieter van Huystee Film
    Pieter van Huystee Film
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Pieter van Huystee Film
    Pieter van Huystee Film
Cinematography