After debuting at Busan and winning the Audience Award at Malaga’s Zonazine sidebar this August, Haroldo Borges and Ernesto Molinero’s “Son of Ox” has played at Malaga’s Spanish Screenings and will screen in competition at Mexico’s Guadalajara Festival, which kicked off Nov. 20.
The film follows a 13-year-old boy, João (João Pedro Dias), who lives in the Sertão outback in the northeast of Brazil where he cares for cattle under the repressive watch of his father (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos). A broken relationship between father and son casts a feeling of isolation over João, who finds refuge under the tent of the arriving circus and the tender friendship he forms with one of the clowns (Vinicius Bustani).
Produced and co-written by Paula Gomes, it’s the first fiction feature by the collective Plano 3 Filmes, who distributes and handles international sales. The group, based out of Salvador de Bahía,...
The film follows a 13-year-old boy, João (João Pedro Dias), who lives in the Sertão outback in the northeast of Brazil where he cares for cattle under the repressive watch of his father (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos). A broken relationship between father and son casts a feeling of isolation over João, who finds refuge under the tent of the arriving circus and the tender friendship he forms with one of the clowns (Vinicius Bustani).
Produced and co-written by Paula Gomes, it’s the first fiction feature by the collective Plano 3 Filmes, who distributes and handles international sales. The group, based out of Salvador de Bahía,...
- 11/20/2020
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
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