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Zona Norte

Deutschland 2015/2016 Dokumentarfilm

Fifteen years after Monika Treut portrayed human rights activist Yvonne Bezerra de Mello working with street kids in "Kriegerin des Lichts" ("Warrior of Light", Panorama 2002), she returns to Rio de Janeiro to document the development and sustainability of the alternative educational project, Uerê. Every day, de Mello provides meals for around 250 children in her institution and offers them a loving, secure and effective learning environment. Her alternative approach to teaching enables the children to overcome learning disabilities that have resulted from experiences of severe violence. In the meantime, the preparations for the Olympic Games and heavy military intervention against the inhabitants of the favelas have created conditions akin to a civil war.

Staying very close to her protagonists and employing a sensitive visual approach, Treut examines the effects of urban sociological changes. In "Zona Norte" she sets off in search of the protagonists of her earlier film. The schoolchildren she portrayed in 2001 seemed to have no future, but her re-encounter with them demonstrates how, in the long run, de Mello’s project has given these children a better chance in life.

Source: 66. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

Credits

Director

  • Monika Treut

Screenplay

  • Monika Treut (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Bernd Meiners

Editing

  • Margot Neubert-Marić

Music

  • Christian Schneider

Production company

  • Hyena Films (Hamburg)

Producer

  • Monika Treut

Alle Credits

Director

  • Monika Treut

Assistant director

  • Ludmilla Curi

Screenplay

  • Monika Treut (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Bernd Meiners

Editing

  • Margot Neubert-Marić

Assistant editor

  • Mari von Deutsch

Sound design

  • Clemens Endress

Sound

  • Tatiana Coelho

Audio mixing

  • Sascha Heiny

Music

  • Christian Schneider

Production company

  • Hyena Films (Hamburg)

in co-production with

  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) / 3sat (Mainz)

Producer

  • Monika Treut

Producer (TV)

  • Daniel Schössler

Unit production manager

  • Ludmilla Curi (Rio)

Production manager

  • Madeleine Dewald
Duration:
90 min
Format:
DCP
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Stereo
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 13.02.2016, Berlin, IFF - Panorama Dokumente

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Zona Norte

Versions

Original

Duration:
90 min
Format:
DCP
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Stereo
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 13.02.2016, Berlin, IFF - Panorama Dokumente

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