Gonella Productions

LANGUAGE: Portuguese | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 24min
Year of production: 2020

SYNOPSIS

Violeta returns to Brazil after 20 years in Spain. In the country where she was born, she has a meeting marked with a renewal of vows, her remaining family, a new identity and the strangeness of being back in a place that was never her own.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Production Company: Olho de Gato Filmes
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Vinicius Sassine
Screenwriter: Vinicius Sassine
Producer: Getsemane Silva & Vinicius Sassine
Director of Photography: Vinicius Sassine
Sound: Vinicius Sassine
Editing: Edgar Costa
Sound Editing: Gabriel Pimentel

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: documentary
Sub-genre: hybrid observation, LGBTQ
Language: Portuguese
Country of origin: Brazil
Year of production: 2020
Total running time: 24min
Shooting format: digital HD
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Sound format: stereo

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

4º Festival Internacional Cine de América en Hidalgo (Ficah), em Pachuca, México , 2020
14º Festival Internacional Cine BH, em Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil, 2020
9º Curta Brasília - Festival Internacional de Curta-Metragem, Brasília, Brasil, 2020
Viva Cultura, Sesc-DF, mostra Cinema Humanidades (pré-estreia), 2020
7ª Mostra da Diversidade Sexual (Modive-se) de Campinas (SP) (seleção oficial), 2020
28º Festival Mix Brasil de Cultura da Diversidade, em São Paulo (seleção oficial), 2020
14º Festival Visões Periféricas, no Rio (seleção oficial para a Mostra Competitiva Fronteiras Imaginárias), 2021

BIOGRAPHY OF THE DIRECTOR

Vinicius Sassine is 38 years old, and lives in Brasilia. He is a documentarian and journalist, holding a postgraduate degree in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He directed the documentary film “Escape” (53’, 2018, Brazil/Spain) that was exhibited in seven film festivals, was displayed at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and is hosted on the GuideDoc platform. He also directed “Exu matou um pássaro” (24min, 2020, Brazil) that was exhibited in seven film festivals, and is still being displayed. “Custódia” (25min, 2021, Brazil) is his latest film. He is winner of four international journalism prizes, including the King of Spain’s Award.