Amores
Date:
January 12, 2023
Amores
Amores
by Grace Passô
Entre Filmes | Brasil
Globo Filmes and Desvia | Brasil
Fiction | 1st feature
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Logline
The mysterious silence that surrounds a Brazilian family is disrupted by a series of strange events that happen within the four walls of their house. The youngest son, however, knows a secret that can help everyone to come in terms with this moment.
Synopsis
A typical Brazilian family is dealing with a recent loss. They don’t know how to express what they’re feeling; they work hard, numbed by life and grief, and live immersed in private dramas. Suely, the mother, repeats every day the ritual of listening to the last audio message she received from her late husband; Gilson, the eldest son, is tormented by recurring nightmares of abandonment; Grazi only listens to music on her headphones as if she coils see life as a music video; Guto goes off to strange places; Gisele desperately seeks contact; and Tutu, the youngest son, constantly skips school.
The mysterious silence that surrounds the routine of a Brazilian family is disrupted by a series of strange events that happen within the four walls of their house. However Tutu, is the only one who seems to know the secrets the house hides and tries, little by little, to reveal them to his family.
Director’s Profile
Grace Passô (1980) is a director, screenwriter and actress.
She has a long career in theater and has received all the main Brazilian awards for her plays on the country’s theater scene. She is the first black playwright to ever receive the Shell Award in Brazil.
She is the director of the short film REPÚBLICA (awarded at São Paulo International Short Film Festival and the Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix) and the medium-length film DAZED FLESH, co-directed with Ricardo Alves Jr, which was part of the Berlinale 2019 – Forum Expanded. AMORES is her first feature film.
As a film actress, she was awarded Best Actress at the Torino International Film Festival (Italy), and was twice awarded at Brasília FF and Rio de Janeiro IFF.
As a screenwriter, she is the co-author of the series HISTÓRIAS IMPOSSÍVEIS, broadcasted on Globo and co-writer of the documentary RESISTÊNCIA – STORIES OF BLACK RESISTANCE IN BRAZIL, produced for Globoplay streaming plataform.
Grace has seven books published with her dramaturgies by publishers Cobogó and Javali. She has works exhibited at the 36th SP Biennial and was honored at Mostra de Tiradentes in 2019.
Company Profile
ENTREFILMES is a Brazilian production company based in Belo Horizonte, created by the filmmaker Ricardo Alves Jr. Since 2006, the company has produced 4 features and 7 shorts or medium length films.
In 2018, The Dead and the Others, by João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, was part of Festival de Cannes – Un Certain Regard’s competition. The film won the Special Jury Prize, was selected in over 70 festivals, and won over 15 awards. Upon its release in France the film was received with critical acclaim and brought over 50.000 people to the cinemas.
In 2023, the partnership with João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora continued with the co-production of The Buriti Flower, which premiered at Un Certain Regard section at Festival de Cannes and received the Ensemble Award. The film was presented in over 50 festivals and was released in France, in Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Austria, collecting amazing numbers of public and great reviews.
The previous films produced by the company were selected in festivals such as Cannes’s Semaine de la Critique, Berlinale, Locarno, Oberhausen, Rotterdam, Havana, BAFICI, FICUNAM, Mar del Plata, among many others. The first feature produced by ENTREFILMES was Ricardo Alves Jr.’s feature debut, Elon Doesn’t Believe in Death, released in 2016 and selected to festivals like IFFR, Cartagena and Macao, where it won an award for Special Artistic Contribution.
Amores, directed by Grace Passô, is the most recent project, currently in post-production.