Cinema e engajamento político:

Entrevista com Helena Solberg

Abstract

The filmmaker Helena Solberg has a fundamental role in the history of Brazilian cinema, for the pioneering and critical legacy of her filmography in the last five decades, which includes Cinema Novo, feminist militancy in the United States and Latin America, fiction and contemporary documentary. Despite this unique trajectory, it is only in 2014 that this filmmaker begins to be recognized in Brazil. Throughout the following interview, Helena Solberg points out the concerns that led her to make movies in the 1960s, her aesthetic references, experiences and more recent works, in which she reiterates their political engagement.