Issues related to the social inclusion
of disabled people definitively became the order of the day
among Brazilian society. Not before time, after all, they now
constitute approximately 15% of our population.
The Assim Vivemos (The Way We Live) Festival consists
of a selection of the films exhibited in the three versions
of FestivalWie
wir lebenthat have taken place
in Munich, Germany, including important Brazilian films addressing
the subject. With a wide variety of films to be shown (fiction
films, documentaries and animations), the Festival brings to
this debate a special focus on certain aspects related to the
issue of disability and a boldness of approach that go beyond
those discussions already promoted by the media or in institutional
spheres. Its international character also makes it possible
to see how people from different cultures deal with the same
questions.
In this sense, more than an event concerned with disability,
the Festival gives people with disabilities a central role so
they talk, through Art, about life and questions common to people
all over the world that may be expressed in few words: our eternal
search for happiness.
Through the sponsorship of the Assim Vivemos (The Way
We Live) Festival, Banco do Brasil affirms its engagement in
a new awareness that is being raised in our country, dealing
with disabled persons.
Lara
Valentina Pozzobon e Gustavo Acioli Curators and producers of the
Assim Vivemos Festival.
