Film Screening: "Three Summers" & Interview with the Director, Sandra Kogut

Date: 

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 6:00pm

Location: 

Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South

Speaker: Sandra Kogut, Filmmaker and Radcliffe-Film Study Center Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Moderated by: Joana Pimenta, Filmmaker and Interim Director, Film Study Center, Harvard University

A limited number of Harvard affiliates can register to participate in this in-person film screening of "Three Summers" and interview with Director Sandra Kogut. A reception with light refreshments will be served as of 6pm and the film screening will begin at 6:30pm.

Every December, between Christmas and New Year, Edgar and Marta host a lavish family celebration at their luxurious summer house by the beach. In 2015 all seems well, despite some tense phone calls and a guest wearing an ankle monitor. In 2016 the annual party is abruptly cancelled. In 2017, their lives are turned upside down. What happens to the invisible people living in the orbit of the rich and powerful when these lives collapse? Through the gaze of an employee and a forgotten elderly father, both victims of the neoliberal nightmare, we see a portrait of contemporary Brazil just before the tragedy of 2018. The signs were all there, but we didn’t know how to read them.

Technical Specifications

  • "Three Summers", a film by Sandra Kogut
  • Comedy, Drama, 94 mins, 2019, Brazil/France
  • In Portuguese with English subtitles
  • Cast includes: Regina Casé, Rogério Fróes, Otávio Müller

Sandra Kogut is a Brazilian film director who works in and between France, US and Brazil. Her award-winning feature-length fiction and documentary films have premiered at Festivals such as Cannes, Toronto and Berlin, among others. She is currently a Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Joana Pimenta is a Portuguese filmmaker, currently working in the United States and Brazil. She teaches at the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. Her latest film, Dry Ground Burning, co-directed with Adirley Queirós, has premiered at the 72nd Berlinale, and won the Grand Prix at Cinéma du Réel. 

Visitor Policies: Masks are recommended, and proof of full Covid vaccination (including booster) or a negative Covid-19 PCR test administered within the previous 72 hours is required for non-Harvard affiliates. Harvard ID holders will be asked to present their ID. All visitors are asked to practice preventive hygiene and urged not to attend events if feeling ill or exhibiting Covid symptoms.

Presented in collaboration with The Film Study Center at Harvard University