Memories for Daily Use

Ivanilda has been searching for evidence that her husband, missing since 1975, was arrested by the Brazilian government. Romildo has been searching for the body of his brother Ramirez missing since 1973, in a cemetery in the suburbs of Rio. Mothers weep for their children recently assassinated by the police in the favela shanty towns. All of them belong to the Torture – Never Again Group in Rio de Janeiro. Torture still affects those families who did not have a chance to bury their loved ones. They interact between traumatic memory and forgetting and bring to the surface the memory of recent facts. The group wishes to build a political memory, thus revealing selectivity in official history. They think the past so that they may free the future of the ghosts that still haunt them in the present.

She was born in 1952, in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais. She is a documentarist who majored in History by the Fluminense Federal University (UFF). She specialized in Documentary and Audiovisual Research at the University of Rome (La Sapienza). She has directed films and documentaries for TV, both short and medium-length as, for instance, A Volta que o Mundo Deu (1995), Vida de Criança (1998), Walter.doc - O Tempo É Sempre Presente (2000) and Nobreza Popular (2003). She was executive producer or production director for films such as A Terra Prometida (1997) and Passing Through (29th Mostra), both by Henri Gervaiseau; Chocolate (1997) and Bendito Fruto (2002), by Sérgio Goldemberg; Babilônia 2000 (2000), Edifício Master (26th Mostra) and Peões (2003) all of these by Eduardo Coutinho; and Garrincha Ucellino di Dio (2001) by Paulo César Saraceni. She was President of the Brazilian Association of Documentarists (ABD) in Rio de Janeiro and advisor to the National ABD from 2005 until 2007.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA