Director
Flávia Neves
Starring
Bárbara Colen, Eucir de Souza, Allan Jacinto Santana, Timothy wilson, Kelly Crifer, Nena Inoue, Vilminha Chaves, Fernanda Vianna, Vilma Montenegro
Run Time
100 mins
Release Year
2022
Country of Origin
Brazil, France
Language
Portuguese
Director of Photography: Luciana Baseggio, Glauco Firpo
Editor: Will Domingos, Waldir Xavier
Produced by: Maya Auad, Vania Catani, Tarcila Jacob, Thomas Sparfel, Nathalie Mesuret
Screenplay by: Melanie Dimantas, Flávia Neves
Fogaréu
Part of the The Powell & Pressburger Award for Best Feature Film Strand
Prodigal daughter Fernanda returns to her small hometown after many years away with the woeful mission of scattering her late mother’s ashes. The visit, innocuous in theory, turns rapidly eerie as the woman senses growingly alarming signs related to her family’s servants. In Flávia Neves’ refreshingly bold and impressively accomplished directorial debut, Brazil’s brutal colonial past is confronted through a vividly realised experiment in genre that blends fact and fiction to harness horror out of history. [15]