The Mother

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Marcélia CartaxoMaria

Dunstin Farias

Dunstin FariasValdo

Mawusi TulaniLúcia

Ana Carolina Marinho

Ana Carolina MarinhoAna

Henrique ZanoniAlemão

Helena IgnezDulce

Kiko MarquesCast

Hélio Cícero

Hélio CíceroSantana

Tuna DwekElenice

Carlos MeceniTobias

Che MoaisLázaro

Rubinho Ferreira

Rubinho FerreiraJonas