Friday 20 January at 20,30 Cinema De Seta was presented in Palermo, AQUARIUS, del registers brasiliano Kleber Mendonça Filho, one of the most interesting films and discussed at the Cannes Film Festival 2016. Starring an extraordinary Sonia Braga. Preview scans the path to the seventh edition of Sicily Queer Film Fest to be held in Palermo from 25 May to June 1 2017. The film tells the intense story of a woman, interpretata of una straordinaria Sonia Braga, non willing to yield to the pressures of an estate agent who wants to buy his house to start speculative construction projects. Hailed by critics around the world, Aquarius marks the return to the big screen of Braga, legendary performer in the seventies of the film adaptation of the novels of Jorge Amado "Dona Flor and her two husbands“ e “Gabriela, cloves and cinnamon”. In Aquarius plays Clara, a woman who claims the right to express their cultural identity, political and sexual, the right to be alone and free, in a film that has the colors of the counterculture and women's empowerment. Released a thousand disputes in Brazil, Aquarius It was greeted by an unexpected public success, becoming a true manifesto of freedom and resistance.

Here are the reactions of the international press:

"A great revolt film". (Release)

"The movie that made dancing, laugh and cry la Croisette ". (Le Figaro)

"Memory, resistance, dignity, self-awareness are the values ​​expressed with a firm hand by this wonderful film ". Paolo D'Agostini (the Repubblica.it)