É Tudo Verdade / It's All True

PERSPECTIVES ON THE FACTS AND THINGS

Cinema occupies a special place among the symbolic devices we use to step back (and take a breather) from reality, so we can look at it from unexpected angles that can yield often surprising facets. In its documentary form, cinema has the bonus of being able to draw from real characters and situations as direct sources for its filmic constructions. This is where screenplays, treatments and narrative strategies, locations and photography meld with life stories and historical moments broached in all their complexities.

Both The State of Things show and tributes to the filmmaker Ruy Guerra—products of Sesc’s partnership with the 26th It’s All True – International Documentary Festival—offer minutely detailed examinations of social circumstances and figures from the past and the present that are representative of different national contexts. Where the local and the global intersect, these shows hit upon constitutive dimensions of the real.

Among debuting films and already historic works, the screenings on the Sesc Digital Platform function as “X-rays” of reality that enable us to see what is normally concealed beneath the immediacy of facts and things. For Sesc, which pursues its cultural mission to broaden the scope and tools of perception, the Festival is a chance to approach the layers of existence in terms of what is most vital within them.

Danilo Santos de Miranda

Sesc São Paulo Regional Director