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The Mother (2022)
Directed by Cristiano Burlan
Drama · 1h 20m
A street vendor who lives in the outskirts of São Paulo returns home at night and does not find her teenager son. After a nonstop search, she finds out the boy was killed by the police and his body is missing. This is the beginning of this woman’s vertiginous fight for the right to bury her son, a fight that will not only unveil the excessive violence of one of most lethal police forces of the world, but also how structural is racism in Brazilian society.
Cast
Marcélia Cartaxo
Mawusi Tulani
Henrique Zanoni
Helena Ignez
Kiko Marques
Tuna Dwek
Carlos Meceni
Che Moais
Crew
- Director
- Cristiano Burlan
- Screenplay
- Ana Carolina Marinho, Cristiano Burlan
- Director of Photography
- André Brandão
- Editor
- Renato Maia, Cristiano Burlan
- Producer
- Ivan Melo, Cristiano Burlan, Henrique Zanoni, Priscila Portella
Details
- Original title
- A Mãe
- Release date
- 2022-11-10
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- PT
- Spoken languages
- Portuguese
- Countries
- Brazil
- Production
- Bela Filmes