International Competition · 45th Edition
Malu
Director
Pedro Freire
Country
Brazil
Runtime
1 h 40 min
Language
Português
Synopsis
In 1997, Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious artistic past.
Cast
Yara de Novaes, Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Carol Duarte, Átila Bee
Screenplay
Pedro Freire
Producers
Tatiana Leite, Léo Ribeiro, Sabrina Garcia, Roberto Berliner
About the Director
A film, theater and TV director and writer. Freire is a Film Directing graduate of Cuba’s Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV) and is currently a professor there. His filmography includes eight short films, shown in competition at a number of top festivals including Venice, Locarno, Havana, Torino, Cinéma du Réel, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. His short film SE POR ACASO, made under the artistic supervision of Abbas Kiarostami, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival.
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