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WHEN MY LIFE WAS MY LIFE (QUANDO MINHA VIDA ERA A MINHA VIDA)
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Development - BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE, SPANISH - Drama - 90 minutes

Log Line

The dark humored tale about the mafia that "exchanges" fugitives for people in vegetative state. Griselda will explain.

Year of production : 2018

Director(s) : Carolina MARKOWICZ
Writer(s) : Carolina MARKOWICZ
Cast : César BORDÓN, Maeve JINKINGS, Rita CORTESE, José LUIS ARIAS

Producer(s) : Mayra FAOUR AUAD (YOURMAMA), Zita CARVALHOSA (Superfilmes), Alejandro ISRAEL (Ajimolido Films)

Synopsis

Griselda Gallardo, a 60 years old quite eccentric woman, is the leader of a cartel located in the triple border between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. She’s an expert in trading people in a vegetative state for fugitives who start living in their place. Miguel is a fugitive drug dealer with a luxurious lifestyle who was facing a death threat and therefore forced to vanish. He starts living in Joanópolis (a small city in São Paulo countryside) with a sketchy family that accepts to host him. He’s sharing a bedroom with William, the 10 years old son who will end up learning “great” lessons from his new master.

Production

Country(ies) : BRAZIL

Financing plan : Superfilmes
Ajimolido Films
Bretz Films

Festivals and Awards

Doctoring SPCINE 2016
Australab 2017
IBERMEDIA 2017
CINEMART 2018


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