A lesbianidade nas telas brasileiras da transição democrática: o protagonismo de Amor maldito, de Adélia Sampaio

Abstract

In the period of democratic transition, Brazilian lmmakers such as Vera Figueiredo, Ana Carolina and Tizuka Yamasaki – even without self nominate as feminists –, took to the screen questions of feminist ideas and the recent past of civil-military dictatorship. However, the theme lesbianism is marked by invisibility in the cinematography of the female authors of that period. This may be explained by the socially prevailing heteronormativity, including the feminisms – only recently problematized. The theme only gained relevance in the lm of Adelia Sampaio, an African descent documentarian, who made the rst full length ction – of female authors- about a romantic relationship between two women, called Amor maldito (1984). In this article – the key History, Gender and Cinema-, I analyse this lm, by questioning the characterization of lesbian characters – staged in this lm of democratic transition.