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Pixote (4K Restoration)

Dir. Hector Babenco
LIFF Spotlights - DESLOCAMENTOS: BRAZILIAN CINEMA ON THE MOVE
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  • Sat 1 Nov
    17:45
    Everyman Cinema Leeds, Leeds
    Screen 4
    Past event
  • Sun 2 Nov
    13:00
    Everyman Cinema Leeds, Leeds
    Screen 4
    Past event

Hector Babenco’s 1980 masterpiece is both a gripping crime drama and a devastating exposé of how political corruption and police brutality drive street kids into the São Paulo underworld.

Pixote, a ten year old homeless boy is thrown into a juvenile prison, eventually breaking into a life of drugs and street crime. With incredible performances from a cast of non-professionals, all from similar backgrounds to the characters, the film is immediate, shocking and heartrendingly moving.

Restored by Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in collaboration with JLS Facilitações Sonoras and Cinemateca Brasileira. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

For more information about Pixote, follow the link below for an article by Dr Stephanie Dennison from the University of Leeds, Programme Adviser for Deslocamentos: Criterion.com Pixote: Out in the Streets

"Pixote is good enough to touch greatness; it restores your excitement about the confusing pleasures that movies can give." — Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

Content Guidance


Contains scenes of strong violence, sexual and physical abuse and drug use involving children, and themes of suicide.

Director Hector Babenco
Running time 128 mins
Production year 1980
Country Brazil
Language Portuguese, English
Courtesy of Cineteca
Certificate BBFC 18

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