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A Brazilian single mother and tollbooth attendant team with local criminals to fund gay conversion therapy for her teenage son, in this tensely unpredictable and slyly satirical crime drama
The mists of Cubatão provides an aptly murky backdrop for this morally complex tale by Brazilian filmmaker Carolina Markowicz (Charcoal). Maeve Jinkings (Aquarius, SFF 2016) is magnetic as Suellen, a motorway tollbooth attendant worried about what the future holds for her openly gay son Tiquinho (charismatic newcomer Kauan Alvarenga). Suellen thinks conversion therapy might be the answer, but paying for it on her meagre wages is impossible. What follows reveals a country in a rapid state of social change, and Markowicz skilfully ratchets up the tension as Suellen becomes an accomplice to highway robbery and events spin out of her control.
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- Program Strand
- Features
- Original Title
- PEDÁGIO
- Year
- 2023
- Classification
- Unclassified 18+
- Country
- Brazil, Portugal
- Language
- In Portuguese with English subtitles
- Director
- Carolina Markowicz
- Producer
- Luís Urbano, Bianca Villar, Fernando Fraiha, Karen Castanho, Sandro Aguilar
- Cast
- Maeve Jinkings, Kauan Alvarenga, Thomás Aquino
- Screenwriter
- Carolina Markowicz
- Cinematographer
- Luis Armando Arteaga
- Editor
- Lautaro Colace, Ricardo Saraiva
- Premiere
- Australian Premiere
- Genre
- Crime, Women Directors, Festival Award Winners, Central & South America, LGBTQIA+ Films
- Company Credits
- Sales Agent: Luxbox
