The Mother (2022)
Overview
A street vendor who lives in the outskirts of São Paulo returns home at night and does not find her teenager son. After a nonstop search, she finds out the boy was killed by the police and his body is missing. This is the beginning of this woman’s vertiginous fight for the right to bury her son, a fight that will not only unveil the excessive violence of one of most lethal police forces of the world, but also how structural is racism in Brazilian society.
Cast
Marcélia Cartaxo
Maria
Mawusi Tulani
Lúcia
Henrique Zanoni
Alemão
Helena Ignez
Dulce
Kiko Marques
Tuna Dwek
Elenice
Carlos Meceni
Tobias
Che Moais
Lázaro
Rodrigo Sanches
Cobrador
Badu Morais
