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Another fine Brazilian film will be shown at the ICBIE Cineforum tomorrow night.  The 1998 film by Paulo Thiago explores the case of a wild idealist in Recife, who has all kinds of original plans to make Brazil a great...

This week, the city of Salvador, like hundreds of important cities around the globe, is celebrating the Italian language, and the ICBIE is playing a major role, along with the Federal University of Bahia.  Yesterday Marlene, together with our friend...

(Italian & Portuguese translations below) During the event on the 12th of October, celebrating Children's Day in Saramandaia, one of Salvador's televisions, Globo, captured some footage of the activities that were going on. TV Bahia then put together a sequence...

Tonight's film, like the one last week, is based upon a classic work of Brazilian literature, this time by Salvador's own Jorge Amado. ------------- O ICBIE, juntamente com a SECULT, através do Projeto Leitura, Arte e Inclusão Digital na Cidade...

  DIA DAS CRIANÇAS EM SARAMANDAIA (Portuguese and English translations below) Il 12 ottobre, in tutto il Brasile, si festeggia il giorno dei bambini, in un Paese che vede ancora troppo spesso violato il naturale e fondamentale diritto ad essere...

Tomorrow night's film is a free adaptation of a milestone book in Latin American literature: The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, written in 1881 by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, notable for its fragmented episodic structure and irrational, dream-like stories,...

Projeto “Leitura, Arte e Inclusão Digital na Cidade Baixa” realiza a I Semana de Arte de Ruade 05 a 12 de Outubro no Bairro Saramandaia. Através do projeto “Leitura Arte e Inclusão Digital na Cidade Baixa” o Instituto Cultural Brasil...

Tonight's film was inspired by one of the great novels of the twentieth century, João Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas.  The English title, which besides being unrecognizably different is almost a spoiler, is The Devil to Pay in the Backlands. ...

Apoio para a Banda Palafitas Graças à doação que a nossa grande Monica Bernardi reuniu na ocasião do batismo de Diego - seu filho e mascote do ICBIE- conseguimos dar uma pequena ajuda económica a Banda Palafitas do Mestre Caica....

One of this year's finest Brazilian films will be shown at tomorrow's ICBIE Cineforum.  Based upon a 1959 short story by Jorge Amado, the film is set in the city of Salvador and recounts a surreal story about a man...