Suellen, a toll booth attendant, realizes she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally. But this is only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest.
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Suellen, empleada en una cabina de peaje, se percata de que puede utilizar su trabajo para conseguir dinero extra de forma ilegal. Pero lo hace sólo por una causa noble: enviar a su hijo a un costoso taller de conversión gay dirigido por un reputado sacerdote extranjero.
FESTIVALS &
AWARDS
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2023/ Winner of Best Actress (Maeve Jinkings), Best Actor (Kauan Alvarenga), Best Supportin Actress (Aline Marta Maia), and Best Art Direction (Vicente Saldanha)
Rome Film Fest 2023/ Winner of Best Film (Progressive Cinema)
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2023/ Official Selection
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CAROLINA MARKOWICZ
Carolina Markowicz (São Paulo, 1982) has written and directed 6 short films selected for festivals including Cannes, Locarno, Toronto, SXSW and AFI, and winners of more than 70 awards: 69-Luz Square (2007), Edifício Tatuapé Mahal (/ Tatuapé Mahal Tower (2014), Postergados / Postponed (2016), Namoro à distancia / Long Distance Relationship (2017), O órfão / The Orphan (2018), premiered at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes in Cannes, where it became the first Brazilian film to win the Queer Palm, and Spit (2019). Carvão / Charcoal, her first feature film, was selected for Films in Progress 2022 (Toulouse) and participated that same year in Horizontes Latinos in San Sebastian after having its premiere at the Toronto Festival.
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Carolina Markowicz (São Paulo, 1982) ha escrito y dirigido 6 cortometrajes seleccionados en festivales como Cannes, Locarno, Toronto, SXSW o AFI y galardonados con más de 70 premios: 69-Luz Square (2007), Edifício Tatuapé Mahal / Tatuapé Mahal Tower (2014), Postergados / Postponed (2016), Namoro à distancia / Long Distance Relationship (2017), O órfão / The Orphan (2018), que se estrenó en la Quincena de Cineastas de Cannes, donde se convirtió en el primer film brasileño en ganar la Queer Palm, y Spit (2019). Carvão / Charcoal, su primer largometraje, fue seleccionado para Cine en Construcción 2022 (Toulouse) y participó ese mismo año en Horizontes Latinos en San Sebastián tras su estreno en el Festival de Toronto.
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