Insights on the exhibition Brazil. Between two worlds, a story.

The Ethnographic Museum Dolomites is pleased to invite you to the fourth and final cultural event related to the photographic exhibition Brazil. Between Two Worlds, a Story. that will take place on Friday, July 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM in the conference room of the Ethnographic Museum Dolomites.

SCREENING OF THE DOCU-FILM “ITALIAN LEGACY” BY MÁRCIA MONTEIRO

“Italian Legacy” by Márcia Monteiro is a documentary that tells the story, present, and future of Trentino and Venetian emigration in the southern mountainous region of Serra Gaúcha in Brazil through the voices of the Italian-Brazilian communities of Rio Grande do Sul, focusing on linguistic, cultural influences, and those related to a typically Italian product: wine.

The docu-film won the Rai Award at the 69th Trento Film Festival with the following motivation: «the film is a white glove on one side and black on the reverse. The first portrays generations of lumberjacks and farmers who deforested and cultivated the forests, growing vines and producing the wine that is now the pride of Brazil. Their legacy is both a product and a message. The other side tells the story of people who suffered abuse, at home and abroad, crossing the Atlantic in search of a better future. The film narrates stories of courage and success but also of exploitation and is very relevant today: it is enough, in fact, to change the color of one’s skin, to cross the Mediterranean Sea instead of the Atlantic Ocean, to find similar stories, whose legacy will certainly be with us in the near future. Rich in significant testimonies, the film ends with a thread of regret for the choice of many young people to leave the countryside for the cities. An opportunity to appreciate history, beautiful images, interviews, and, above all, to “reflect”».