California
Big Screen Award Competition
California
A Film by Marina Person
2016 - Brazil - Comedy/Drama - DCP - 90 min.
with Clara Gallo , Caio Blat , Caio Horowicz , Livia Gijon , Paulo Miklos , Virginia Cavendish & Giovanni Gallo
Language: Portugese
Produced by Gustavo Rosa de Moura
1984. Estela is going through the convoluted stage of adolescence. Sex, love, friendship; everything seems so complicated. Her uncle, Carlos, is her hero, and the trip to California to visit him, her bigger dream. But everything falls apart when he comes back to Brazil looking skinny, weak and sick. Between crisis and discoveries, Estela has to face a reality that will change forever her way of seeing the world.
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