A mãe

Direction
Cristiano Burlan
Country
Brazil
Format
Feature film
Type
Fiction
Original title
A mãe
Scenario
Cristiano Burlan, Ana Carolina Marinho

Cristiano Burlan

Filmography

THEY KILLED MY BROTHER 18th It’s All True, 2013 Governor of São Paulo for Culture, Brazilian Film Festival in Toronto, Cuba International Film Festival HUNGER Brasília International Film Festival, São Paulo International Film Festival, 17e Filmar en Latin America, Geneve, 7e Hollywood Brazilian Festival HAMLET Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, 9th Latin American Film Festival, Cine BH Film Festival SYMPHONY OF A LONELY MAN São Paulo International Film Festival, World Cinema Festival, Indie BH, Bahia International Film Festival

Note of intent

The Brazilian military police, one of the last legacies of our dictatorship, is the most lethal in the world. I grew up on the outskirts of São Paulo, in an environment full of violence and lack of perspective. My brother was murdered by the police and my mother by a drug dealer. But my story is no exception. Impunity, prejudice, and inequality have turned these lives into numbers. The Mother is an urgent, personal and universal film about the genocide of a specific population perpetrated by the Brazilian state: young, black and poor of the peripheries.

Synopsis

Maria, a 53-year-old woman living in the outskirts of São Paulo, returns home at night and does not find her 16-year-old son. She discovers that Vado was killed by the police and that his body is missing. It begins a dizzying journey of a mother struggling for the right to bury her son. The Brazilian dictatorship ended more than 30 years ago. But the military police are one of the last remnants of this black period of national history. Impunity, inequality, violence, social apartheid, prejudice are some of the issues that persist in our history, which ends up promoting a contemporary genocide of young people from the peripheries. And this hatred has only grown in recent times.

Visual concept

A mãe is a mixture between drama and investigative thriller. Merging documentary and fiction, at the beginning what prevails is a look at the daily attitudes and routines. But, when the mother begins her struggle for her son’s body, we enter a harrowing and desperate atmosphere, that permeates all gestures and places, all relations. The visible and invisible barriers that this mother faces eventually create a powerful, captivating and explosive character.

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Co-production and development

Shooting planned date

2018

Planned shooting location

São Paulo

Percentage of funding in place
0 %
Project's development phase

In development

Production
Bela filmes
Coproduction
Filmes de Garoa
Producer's biography

Henrique Zanoni is an actor, producer, writer and director of cinema and theater. He teaches at Academia Internacional de Cinema – AIC, is a partner of Bela Filmes and founder of Cia dos Infames of theater. He produced more than 10 movies (documentary and fiction) and in 2014 directed his first short, Brutality (México, Miami, Minas Gerais, São Paulo). He is graduated in economics.