A 19-minute taxi ride where God plays shotgun and nobody tips.
An atheist gets into a taxi whose driver is a believer who will try to convince him that God exists, but it was not quite as he had imagined.
Acting
Fróes and Grossi's two-hander is a masterclass in escalating intimacy
Direction
Belmonte traps you in that cab and you can't look away
Director
José Eduardo Belmonte
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Brazil's late-90s 'Cinema de Borda' movement—low-budget films that turned São Paulo's urban sprawl into psychological battlegrounds. Belmonte shot this in a single night with borrowed equipment.
The title 'Tepê' is never explained on screen; it's Brazilian slang for a temporary fix, something that holds just long enough—fitting for a film about fragile belief systems propped up by circumstance.
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