Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau) returns with a thrillingly unpredictable, shape-shifting epic set in his hometown of Recife during the late 1970s, starring a magnetic Wagner Moura as a man on the run from his past. Winner, Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes. Brazil’s official selection for Best International Feature at the 2026 Academy Awards. A university professor travels from São Paulo to the seaside city of Recife during Carnival week,
hoping to reunite with his son. He soon finds out he’s been tailed and spied on by neighbors in his
new refuge, leaving him no possible escape from the tentacles of corruption.
