

A couch becomes a battleground for dignity in Rio's forgotten corners.
Joana D'Arc, a former public school teacher in Rio de Janeiro, tries to recover her home, lost to the City Hall. The trajectory is shared by the pirate fisherman Pharaó, from Guanabara Bay.
Acting
Ingrid Guimarães carries exhaustion like a second skin.
Direction
Safadi finds cosmic weight in bureaucratic minutiae.

Director
Bruno Safadi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Guanabara Bay's 'pirate fishermen' are a real marginalized community fighting environmental destruction and displacement.
Safadi shot guerrilla-style in actual City Hall corridors, blurring documentary and fiction until bureaucrats became unwitting extras.