Ainda

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Note of intent

Ainda is a journey set in a divided landscape, in which the characters struggle for their existence to be acknowledged and welcomed in the place they call home. Sofía sees her future become a stage of dispute of interests, and her intimacy turning into everyone’s issues but hers. And in the authoritarian context in which she lives, insubordination has a high price. Ainda is not a film about abortion. It is a cry of disobedience against the law of a state that does not truly protect life.

Synopsis

Sofia is 16 years old and in the middle of a crucial championship volleyball season. She tries to take care of an unexpected pregnancy by herself — willing to risk the dangerous and clandestine options in her country where abortion is a capital crime. Sofia asks for her father’s help, but as the news starts to spread through her small village, any autonomy Sofía may have thought she had over her own future is quickly, and brutally, banished. However, Sofía’s need for survival is bigger than the oppression she is subjected to, even if the consequences will be devastating.

Visual concept

Human created political cartographies collide in Ainda´s images, as the idea of opposing forces separated by a fragile imaginary border becomes a leitmotif in the film. This becomes materialized in the volleyball court, in the frontier of Brazil-Uruguay, in the male/female ideas about adolescence. Therefore, ambiguity becomes important when it comes to character design, casting, locations, art direction and costume design. The young cast selection is also urban, androgynous, diversely pulsating.