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Felipe Camargo (Pedro Chão), Titina Medeiros (Vina), Thiago Justino (David), Genilda Maria (Das Luzes), Roney Villela (Josivaldo), Jeneffer Setti (Guida), Luana Cavalcante (Levina), Pequena Cintilante (Selene), Jurema Terra (Rosaluna)
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A violent and disturbed man is found wounded and suffering from amnesia in a coastal community. When he is accused of theft by the fishermen, they try in vain to make him regain his memory in order to recover the stolen money. In a popular trial, a conspiracy is uncovered involving embezzlement of public funds, prostitution, domestic and gender-based violence. Sentenced to isolation, he seeks a new meaning in life.
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The film has been entirely produced with public resources from ANCINE's Fundo Setorial (BRDE), in addition to private sponsors.
Director's biography:
Eliane Dias Caffé Alves (São Paulo) is a Brazilian filmmaker. She was the director of the films Narradores de Javé and Era or Hotel Cambridge. Eliane Caffé graduated in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo in 1985 and completed her master's degree at the Institute of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts of the Autonomous University of Madrid (1991-1992) and subsequently at Santo Antonio de Los Baños in Cuba
Filmography:
Era o Hotel Cambridge (2016) Fiction feature film
Awards Audience Award and Critics' Prize, Rio de Janeiro; Special Mention, San Sebastian Film Festival; Cine en Construcción Toulouse Award (2015)
Os Narradores de Javé (2003) Fiction feature film
Selection at the Rotterdam Film Festival; Special Jury Award, Fribourg Festival, Switzerland; Best Film Award, Brussels Film Festival
Kenoma (1998) Fiction feature film
Best Film Award, Biarritz Film Festival
Production notes:
In 2019 I looked for filming locations in the northeast of Brazil went to Barra de Cunhaú in the state of Rio Grande do Norte and this search ended on the first day. Beautiful beaches, mangroves, a fishing village and residents who embraced the idea from the first moment. I found all the elements present in the plot. The feature film Filhos do Mangue crudely exposes riverside labor exploitation, denouncing a situation of domestic violence and child prostitution.
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