The Mother

Overview

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.

Directed by Cristiano Burlan

Top cast

Marcélia Cartaxo

Maria

D

Dunstin Farias

Valdo

Mawusi Tulani

Lúcia

A

Ana Carolina Marinho

Ana

Henrique Zanoni

Alemão

Helena Ignez

Dulce

Kiko Marques

H

Hélio Cícero

Santana

Tuna Dwek

Elenice

Carlos Meceni

Tobias

Che Moais

Lázaro

R

Rubinho Ferreira

Jonas

Rodrigo Sanches

Cobrador

D

Debora Maria da Silva

D

Dinho Lima Flor

Badu Morais

B

Bruno Caticha

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