From its world premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival to New Directors, New Films in New York and beyond, NEIGHBORING SOUNDS has earned non-stop raves. Hailed as a director to watch, former film critic Filho set his enthralling episodic story on one block in a rapidly changing Brazilian city. An old aristocrat with a flashy mansion attempts to maintain his hold on a fiefdom increasingly dense with paranoid high-rise-dwelling yuppies with their maids, nannies, and helpers. Simmering clashes of class and race escalate with an often-humorous upstairs-downstairs vibe when the neighborhood hires a questionable security firm to protect the block. (BS) Screened in 2013 as a Chicago Premiere.
