The Mother

1h 20m
Drama
8.2

A street vendor who lives in the outskirts of São Paulo returns home at night and does not find her teenager son. After a nonstop search, she finds out the boy was killed by the police and his body is missing. This is the beginning of this woman’s vertiginous fight for the right to bury her son, a fight that will not only unveil the excessive violence of one of most lethal police forces of the world, but also how structural is racism in Brazilian society.

Cast

Marcélia Cartaxo
Maria
Dunstin Farias
Valdo
Mawusi Tulani
Lúcia
Ana Carolina Marinho
Ana
Henrique Zanoni
Alemão
Helena Ignez
Dulce
Kiko Marques
Unknown
Hélio Cícero
Santana
Tuna Dwek
Elenice
Carlos Meceni
Tobias
Che Moais
Lázaro
Rubinho Ferreira
Jonas
Rodrigo Sanches
Cobrador
Debora Maria da Silva
Unknown
Dinho Lima Flor
Unknown
Badu Morais
Unknown
Bruno Caticha
Unknown

Crew

Cristiano Burlan
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
Ana Carolina Marinho
Screenplay
Renato Maia
Editor
André Brandão
Director of Photography
Priscila Portella
Producer
Ivan Melo
Producer
Henrique Zanoni
Producer
Karla Salvoni
Art Direction

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