BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL 2025

DIRECTOR: Walter Salles
STARRING: Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro
BRAZIL/FRANCE, 2023, 2 HOURS 17 MINUTES, PORTUGUESE + ENGLISH SUBTITLES
DS DESCRIPTIVE SUBTITLES: Friday 28th February at 1pm

Accomplished storytelling from Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries) in this stirring, visually rich account of 1970s family life during Brazil’s military junta.

The large, lively Paiva family live an outwardly relaxed and privileged life at their beachside home in Rio de Janeiro. Suddenly one day, the father Rubens, engineer and former dissident politician, is taken away for questioning by the police and never reappears. Eunice (renowned Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres) must hold the family together and fight against the odds for justice. Salles’ adaptation of Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s 2015 memoir is an intensely intimate portrait of resistance, piecing together a vital part of Brazil’s hidden history.

Best Screenplay, Venice Film Festival 2024

Shortlisted for International Feature Film Oscar (Brazil)