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The Mother (2022)

The Mother (2022)

Drama
Release Date: 2022, November 10
Directors: Cristiano Burlan
Countries: Brazil
Production: Bela Filmes
Cast: Marcélia Cartaxo, Tuna Dwek, Mawusi Tulani, Henrique Zanoni, Rodrigo Sanches, Ana Carolina Marinho, Helena Ignez, Dunstin Farias, Hélio Cícero, Carlos Meceni, Che Moais, Rubinho Ferreira

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.