BAFICI

(...) In the early 90's a group of young Germans arrives in Portugal to be part of a decade-old experimental social reinsertion program. Starting out as a documentary project, Body Rice morphed into a fiction based on experiences of the people in the program. Alentejo- A desertified area in Portugal's south- is the ideal setting for Hugo Vieira da Silva's contemplative gaze, which portrays a strange community that perpetuates pointless encounters and conversations, indolent wlaks and uncrowded raves of electric vitality. Between apathy and muffled surprise, between furious music and silence, the film to some extent lays the uncertaintly, stagnation and uprootedness of Wim Wenders The state of the things upon the Portuguese landscape. Countinously adrifft, rather than apathetic, zombie-like young people, the main caracthers of Body Rice are deprogrammed, dysfunctional robots (...)

in Buenos Aires 9th Festival internacional de cine independiente (Bafici)