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Candomblé
2006 | 42min
Director: Frédérique Zepter
 

One of the world¹s oldest religions, known as voodoo in Haïti and santeria in Cuba, Candomblé came to the New World with the slaves. It uses music as a call to the other world that forces the gods to come down to earth. And these gradually moved from the sacred to the profane: a lot of South American music today (rumba, salsa, samba...) still uses the gods' favourite rhythms.

This film takes the music as a starting point to enter the secret world of the religion, taking its farthest imprint, samba, to get to the traditional candomblé houses of Rio de Janeiro, where we will discover how man communicates with the gods through music, trance, dance and divination.
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FESTIVALS & AWARDS

:: USA, St. Louis, Africa World Documentary Film Festival 2007

:: South Afric, Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, ICEBOX 02 Screening 2007

:: Cuba, Gibara, Festival Internacional del Cine Pobre 2007

:: France, Toulouse Latinamerican Film Festival 2007, "Black Brazil" Selection

:: Canada, Montreal Film Pop 2006

:: Canada, Toronto Latin@ Media Festival aluCine 2007, official selection

:: Portugal, Carceres Portugal Extrema'Doc 2007, Premio da Secção Oficial Transfronteira

:: Cuba, La Habana, Cuba, Muestra de Nuevos Realizadores ICAIC 2008

:: Danemark, Arhus, AFIA Film Festival 2008