7, Aug — 1986

The time of short films

  • Edmar Pereira
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“Our films are part of a new concept of short films. We don’t shoot just to learn or experiment”, explains Mauricio Farias and Luiz Fernando Carvalho.”

14, Apr — 1986

O Homem da Capa Preta, the best at Gramado Festival

  • Helena Salém

“In the short film sector, the judges took another approach: instead of individualizing the award, they preferred to share the Kikito for best film among three: A Espera, by Mauricio Farias and Luiz Fernando Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro,O Dia em que Dorival Encarou a Guarda, by José Pedro Goulart and Jorge Furtado from Rio Grande do Sul, and Ma Che Bambina, by A.S. Cecilio Neto from São Paulo”.

3, Nov — 1986

The Brand New ‘New Cinema’

  • Sônia Apolinaro
  • O Globo

“It’s only worth doing cinema if it’s about the things you believe in. You can no longer fool people”, says Luiz Fernando.

15, Apr — 1986

Gramado award-winning Marieta Severo thinks of doing other films

  • Helena Salém
  • O Globo

“I did this work (A Espera) because it fascinated me. (…) I was amazed how those boys, Mauricio and Luiz Fernando, started on such a difficult path. But everything was so well constructed within the film, with a language that at the same time conveys Barthes but goes beyond the text that the result was fantastic”, says Marieta Severo.

27, Sep — 1986

Brazilian short films, award in Spain

  • O Globo

“A Brazilian short film, A Espera, directed by Maurício Farias and Luiz Fernando Carvalho, won the Concha de Ouro for the category.”

2, Aug — 1986

Invention, the new space for short films

  • Helena Salém
  • O Globo

“It’s a circular language that allows you to cover in a few minutes a story of beginning, middle and end. As Barthes says, ‘love is a delusion, in essence, it is circular’. Barthes not only puts it – his own language is circular. And that is exactly what generated our love for cinema”, says Luiz Fernando Carvalho. (…) Both in their 25 years of age, Luiz Fernando and Mauricio make their film debut after a significant television experience.

16, Aug — 1986

Director of A Espera is Success

  • Terezinha dos Santos Anna Lucia Tenan
  • Jornal da Faculdade da Cidade

“Admirer of Fellini and Hitchcock, this inveterate cinephile is also dedicated to television, having participated as assistant director of several miniseries on TV Globo, such asO Tempo e o Vento and Grande Sertão, Veredas”.

8, Aug — 1986

Enjoy these short films at Oscarito

  • Caio Fernando Abreu
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“In A Espera, with beautiful set design and cinematography, Marieta Severo comments on the mismatch of a couple (Malu Mader and Diogo Vilela), in an ironic, sophisticated and intelligent film”.