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The Mother (2022)
Directed by Cristiano Burlan
Overview
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.
Length 80 minutes
Actors
Marcélia Cartaxo | Dustin Farias | Mawusi Tulani | Ana Carolina Marinho | Henrique Zanoni | Helena Ignez | Kiko Marques | Hélio Cícero | Tuna Dwek | Carlos Meceni | Che Moais | Rubinho Ferreira | Rodrigo Sanches | Debora Maria da Silva | Dinho Lima Flor | Badu Morais | Bruno Caticha