Film Screening: Saravá Shalom

Film Screening Followed by a panel discussin with filmmaker Alex Minkin, Dr. André Feitosa, and Dr. Andrea Kogen.

 

 

André Feitosa, an artist from Northern Brazil, discovered that his family descends from enslaved Africans, Indigenous people and Jews who were converted by the Inquisition. Andre delved into the archives and reconstructed his family tree for dozens of generations. Where he lacked records, he consulted mediums in the Afro-Brazilian temples. The film travels from the sacred mountains in the south of Brazil to the backlands of the Northeast, from the spiritist Jewish center in Rio de Janeiro to the Inquisition squares in Portugal, weaving together worlds and diasporas in a single enchanted temple of the

"Synagogue of Ancestral Commitments."

 

Cinema and Media Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center of Latin American and Latinx Studies