Luiza

This story of Luiza and her cousin João, confined by the constant idea that the world could end at any moment really hit close to home with the recent predictions -- now thankfully come and gone -- forecasting our global demise on May 21st.

E. Nina Rothe: Third Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival: Chantal Akerman, a Gorilla Woman and Bollywood E. Nina Rothe 2011

In A Fuga da Mulher Gorila (The Escape of the Gorilla Woman) -- described by the filmmakers as "a fake-musical about anger and freedom in the outskirts of Rio" -- two sisters and an actor become unlikely road companions, while in the mystical modern-day fairy tale of A Alegria (The Joy) Luiza finds the magic she needs in her own life.

E. Nina Rothe: Third Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival: Chantal Akerman, a Gorilla Woman and Bollywood E. Nina Rothe 2011

This story of Luiza and her cousin João, confined by the constant idea that the world could end at any moment really hit close to home with the recent predictions -- now thankfully come and gone -- forecasting our global demise on May 21st.

E. Nina Rothe: Third Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival: Chantal Akerman, a Gorilla Woman and Bollywood E. Nina Rothe 2011

In A Fuga da Mulher Gorila (The Escape of the Gorilla Woman) -- described by the filmmakers as "a fake-musical about anger and freedom in the outskirts of Rio" -- two sisters and an actor become unlikely road companions, while in the mystical modern-day fairy tale of A Alegria (The Joy) Luiza finds the magic she needs in her own life.

E. Nina Rothe: Third Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival: Chantal Akerman, a Gorilla Woman and Bollywood E. Nina Rothe 2011

And last of the trilogy is the multi-episodic, diversely filmed Desassossego Neverquiet "based on a letter written by Felipe Bragança and the character Luiza after some lost letters of a real Brazilian teenager in the 90s."

E. Nina Rothe: Third Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival: Chantal Akerman, a Gorilla Woman and Bollywood E. Nina Rothe 2011

This story of Luiza and her cousin João, confined by the constant idea that the world could end at any moment really hit close to home with the recent predictions -- now thankfully come and gone -- forecasting our global demise on May 21st.

E. Nina Rothe: Third Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival: Chantal Akerman, a Gorilla Woman and Bollywood E. Nina Rothe 2011

And last of the trilogy is the multi-episodic, diversely filmed Desassossego Neverquiet "based on a letter written by Felipe Bragança and the character Luiza after some lost letters of a real Brazilian teenager in the 90s."

E. Nina Rothe: Third Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival: Chantal Akerman, a Gorilla Woman and Bollywood E. Nina Rothe 2011

In A Fuga da Mulher Gorila (The Escape of the Gorilla Woman) -- described by the filmmakers as "a fake-musical about anger and freedom in the outskirts of Rio" -- two sisters and an actor become unlikely road companions, while in the mystical modern-day fairy tale of A Alegria (The Joy) Luiza finds the magic she needs in her own life.

E. Nina Rothe: Third Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival: Chantal Akerman, a Gorilla Woman and Bollywood E. Nina Rothe 2011

And last of the trilogy is the multi-episodic, diversely filmed Desassossego Neverquiet "based on a letter written by Felipe Bragança and the character Luiza after some lost letters of a real Brazilian teenager in the 90s."

E. Nina Rothe: Third Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival: Chantal Akerman, a Gorilla Woman and Bollywood E. Nina Rothe 2011

And last of the trilogy is the multi-episodic, diversely filmed Desassossego Neverquiet "based on a letter written by Felipe Bragança and the character Luiza after some lost letters of a real Brazilian teenager in the 90s."

E. Nina Rothe: Third Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival: Chantal Akerman, a Gorilla Woman and Bollywood E. Nina Rothe 2011