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PIXADORES

Documentary 2014

Director: Amir Escandari

93 minutes

Are it artists, anarchists or criminals?

PIXADORES is a movie about young men living in the edges of São Paulo, Brazil. Pixacao street-art leads their lives. Painters write overwhelming cryptic messages in places hard to get to, such as walls of tall buildings. Nightly painting is their way to rebel and a proof of their existence.

Djan, William, Biscoito and Ricardo are unemployed, or spend their day time in heavy-lifting jobs. Night time they paint and train-surf. Pixacao is everything to them. Out-of-nowhere invitation to Berlin’s Biennaale as artists change their lives. Even the thought of travel is a huge step for the men. In Berling, the heart of European art-culture, the pixadores have to make their decision of who they are and what they are doing, as painters, let alone as a family.

PIXADORES is Iranian-born Amir Arsames Escandaris’ (born 1979) debute-film. It was cinematogpahed by Peter Flinckenberg. The movie is Finnish-Danish-Swedish co-production and the main producer is Miia Haavisto / Helsinki-filmi.

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The Edukators

Crime/Drama Movie 2004

Director: Hans Weingartner

130 minutes

Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei

Berlin student Jule is hoplessly indebted due to an accident she caused, uninsuredly hitting a rich businessman’s limousine. Evicted from her flat she moves in with her boyfrend Peter and soon learns that Peter and his flatmate, Jan, are breaking into luxurious mansions at night. Instead of stealing or vandalizing, though, they carefully and ornately rearrange furniture and valulables and leave obscure messages as Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei. Jule convinces Jan, who has a crush on her, to pay a visit to the villa of her creditor. The consequences can not be overlooked…