ABDIAS DO NASCIMENTO Purchising Options:DVD + Streaming societal attitudes to the roles

societal attitudes to the roles of women and the tension between Western and traditional Maori medicine

In the quiet atmosphere of the palm groves

and insightful narration

BELGIUM / 1999 / FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / 54 MIN

we get closer to a filmmaker who invented new landscapes and brought together opposite worlds

ABDIAS DO NASCIMENTO Purchising Options:DVD + Streaming societal attitudes to the rolesABDIAS DO NASCIMENTO DIRECTED BY AIDA MARQUES BRAZIL 2011 PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES 95 MIN SYNOPSIS Loving and revealing documentary about Afro Brazilian scholar writer activist politician Abdias do Nascimento (1914 2011), a significant figure in and leader of Brazils Black movement who founded the Black Experimental Theater in 1944 and was very active in the international Pan African Movement. DIRECTOR AND CAST Director: Aida Marques GENRES