Kenyans learning about Brazil's history and culture through films

A reveler of Mocidade Alegre samba school performs during the second night of carnival parades at the Sambadrome in Sao Paulo,Brazil, on February 10, 2013. [AFP, Yasuyoshi Chiba]

With several films nominated for international prizes every year, the diversity of Brazilian cinema remains somewhat unexplored by the common audiences around the world.

Brazil’s “strange vocation” (an expression used by director Carlos Diégues) for cinema is due to the fact that its production is made of cycles in which periods of great enthusiasm alternate periods of crisis.