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Keywords

  • Arthouse
  • Award Winning
  • Gender
  • Screen: Latin America
  • Storyline: Daughters
  • conflict
  • education
  • family
  • latin america
  • women
  • work

Actors

  • Regina Casé
  • Camila Mardila
  • Michel Joelsas
  • Karine Teles
  • Lourenço Mutarelli
  • Helena Albergaria

Director

  • Anna Muylaert

Comedy

1h 52min

0 FSK

Brazil
2015

PT

DE

DE

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Winner of the C.I.C.A.E. Award and Panorama Audience Award at the 65th Berlinale for its subtle humour and outstanding performances.

Winner of the C.I.C.A.E. Award and Panorama Audience Award at the 65th Berlinale for its subtle humour and outstanding performances.


After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo.


She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, Anna Muylaert turns her eye on the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.

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