Documentary Screening of Saravá Shalom

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese presents a screening of the film Saravá Shalom, followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Alex Minkin, Dr. André Feitosa, and Dr. Andrea Kogen. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.

André Feitosa, artist from Northern Brazil, discovered that his family descends from enslaved Africans, Indigenous people and Jews who were converted by the Inquisition. André delved into the archives and reconstructed his family tree for dozens of generations. Where he lacked records, he consulted mediums in the Afro-Brazilian temples. The film travels from the sacred mountains in the south of Brazil to the backlands of the Northeast, from the spiritist Jewish center in Rio de Janeiro to the Inquisition squares in Portugal, weaving together worlds and diasporas in a single enchanted temple of the “Synagogue of Ancestral Commitments.”