Best Actor, Best Director, Fipresci Award, Cannes 2025

Original language: Portuguese

Subtitles: Romanian, English

Directed by: Kleber Mendonça Filho

Country: Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands

Year of production: 2025

Length: 158 minutes

Genre: Thriller, Period Drama

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks

Credits

Kleber Mendonça Filho – Director

Kleber Mendonça Filho – Script

Casting

Wagner Moura

Maria Fernanda Candido

Gabriel Leone

Carlos Francisco

Alice Carvalho

Robério Diogenes

Hermila Guedes

Igor Araújo Falcão

Italo Martins

Laura Lufési

Udo Kier

Roney Villela