CENTRAL STATION

The former teacher Dora writes letters for the illiterates at the train station named Central do Brasil, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She charges a small amount from all, but sometimes she doesn’t sends the messages —some never leave her drawer. In the middle of these letters, full of hopes and projects, is Ana’s, who plans to meet again the father of her son Josué. The unexpected death of this mother seals the encounter of Dora and the boy Josué, who will have their destinies intertwined in a trip across a simple and hard Brazil, where the prize is the rediscovery of Dora’s own humanity.

Winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival. Restored by the French laboratory Éclair with the support of the National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), VideoFilmes and Mact Productions.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1956. In 1991, he directed his first feature film, High Art (1991, 15th Mostra). He was a member of the 19th Mostra’s International Jury, in 1995. In partnership with Daniela Thomas, he directed Foreign Land (1995), Midnight (1998, 23rd Mostra), a segment of Paris, I Love You (2006, 30th Mostra) and Linha de Passe (2008, 37th Mostra). Salles is also the director of Central Station (1998), winner of Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival, Behind the Sun (2001), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), On the Road (2012) and Jia Zhangke, a Guy from Fenyang (2014, 38th Mostra). At the 41st Mostra, Salles exhibited the short movie When the Earth Trembles, part of the feature film Where Has the Time Gone? (2017). He produced, among others, Madame Satã (2002), Love for Sale (2006) and Habi, the Foreigner (2013), all of them screened at Mostra.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA