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A cidade das mulheres = The city of women / Petrobras, BNDES, X-Filmes, Casa de Cinema da Bahia, and Link Digital presents ; a film documentary by Lázaro Faria ; direction and production, Lázaro Faria ; scriptwriter, Cléo Martins.
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Candomblé.
- Matriarchy.
- Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991.
- Landes, Ruth.
- Stella de Oxóssi, Mãe.
- Stella de Oxóssi.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- City of women
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Casa de Cinema, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In Portuguese and English with subtitles in English and Portuguese.
- System Details:
- DVD; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital.
- digital optical Dolby Digital
- widescreen (1.85:1)
- video file DVD video
- Summary:
- The City of Women proudly presents Stella of Oxóssi, Iyalorisha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá (a Candomblé temple founded in 1910), who tells the stories of Candomblé and her own life in an exclusive and brilliant interview about matriarchal societies, the cult of Shango, syncretism and the future of Candomblé. This feature-length documentary is dedicated to the Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá, Casa Branca and Gantois temples, and to all the women of Ashé, or spiritual power, in Bahia. It is also an outstanding tribute to Ruth Landes, the American anthropologist who studied the role of gender in Afro-Brazilian culture in the 1930s and was amazed at the power that religious women held in the city of Salvador: "I think the women help make Brazil great. Will Americans believe that there is a country where women like men, feel secure and at ease with them, and do no fear them?"
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Cinematography, Lázaro Faria, Maoma Faria; music, Cléo Martins.
- OCLC:
- 951478955
- Publisher Number:
- 857326006199
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