My Mother’s Father
Davi, a ten-year-old boy, shares a deeply affectionate relationship with his mother, Rosa. When Rosa experiences a schizophrenic episode, the dynamic between them is reversed: Davi assumes a caregiving role that no child should have to occupy. Set against the backdrop of a house move in Nilópolis, in Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense, the film follows the small gestures of survival, tenderness, and exhaustion that shape their bond after his mother’s episode. My Mother’s Father is an intimate drama about love, premature maturity, and everyday resilience, approaching mental health not through the lens of diagnosis, but through the territory of affection. A quiet portrait of a childhood marked by pain, but also by the possibility of carrying on.
Director: Otávio de Olliveira Fontes
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Raquel Villar as Rosa de Oliveira Braga |
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Duduzinho Rocha as Davi de Oliveira Braga |
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Jéssica Sodré as Atendente do CAPs |
| Directing | Otávio de Olliveira Fontes | Director |
| Writing | Otávio de Olliveira Fontes | Writer |
| Production | Otávio de Olliveira Fontes | Production Executive |
| Editing | Otávio de Olliveira Fontes | Editor |
| Production | Jade Bastos | Production Director |
| Directing | Beto Teixeira | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Beto Teixeira | Editor |
| Camera | Higor Cabral | Director of Photography |
| Art | Vitor Garcia | Assistant Director of Photography |
| Lighting | Jon Thomas | Gaffer |
| Production | Antônia Rodrigues | Producer's Assistant |
| Sound | Ítalo Pereira | Sound Director |
| Art | Larissa Helena Alpino | Art Direction |
| Art | Bárbara Anny | Art Department Assistant |
| Art | Bruno Stepheson | Art Department Assistant |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marcelly Gouvêa | Makeup & Hair |
| Camera | mylena braga | Still Photographer |
