The Humanities Film Series Presents

Capitães da Areia (Captains of the Sands)

Friday, January 11

7 PM

ETC Lecture Hall

Salvador, Bahia – In Brazil, alive with the charm of the 1950s, a gang of street kids known as “Capitães da Areia” [Captains of the Sands] is committing petty thefts and sophisticated mansion robberies and as a result are hunted like common criminals. As we draw closer, we see that they are just children, almost a hundred of them, completely abandoned. But they won’t be children for long: by the end of this odyssey, many will have become men. This feature film, based on the novel by Jorge Amado, shows a year in the lives of these boys, their incredible adventures, their most wonderful dreams, their visits to hell, and their discoveries of both death and freedom.