The Mother

The Mother (2022)

Drama

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.

Director: Cristiano Burlan
Writers: Ana Carolina Marinho, Cristiano Burlan.

Casts

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

Crew