First Run
Brazil’s official entry for the 98th Academy Awards®.
Amid the raucous revelry of Carnival week, a widower named Marcelo arrives in 1977 in Recife, Brazil, a city as vibrant as it is violent. A technology researcher who suddenly finds himself an unwitting target in the heart of the dictatorship’s political maelstrom, Marcelo is a man on the run from mercenary killers, from ghosts of the past and from the ruthless, mischievously militant spirit of Brazil in 1977.
Master filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho teams up with renowned actor Wagner Moura – giving a career-defining performance – to craft a thrillingly unpredictable, playfully shape-shifting epic steeped in history, even as it feels remarkably contemporary.
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival winner for Best Actor award for Moura, and Best Director for Mendonça Filho, and the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film.
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| Distributor: | Neon |
| Country: | Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands |
| Release Year: | 2025 |
| Runtime: | 158 |
| Director: | Kleber Mendonça Filho |
| Rating: | R |
| Language: | In Portuguese with English subtitles |
| Format: | DCP |
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