Synopsis

DIRA and BIDÔ are a farming couple who live on a plot of land surrounded by the wild Cerrado. Severe drought and fires gradually coming closer to the land affect their crops, leaving their vegetables withered and lifeless. After the death of her daughter, YARA, Dira brings her grandson, MATIAS, to live with them in the field. Finding it hard to adapt to his new life, the boy rejects his grandmother who, stricken by a sudden and inexplicable lactation, begins to water the land with her own milk. Bidô ends up captivating Matias, becoming a mediator in the complicated grandmother-grandchild relationship. Haunted by grief and fire, the three are accompanied by the presence of a mysterious jaguar, something that, little by little, makes them find a peculiar complicity that allows them to deal with the pain of loss while the garden grows more and more vigorous.

Technical information

Country / state Brasil / DF

Estimated Budget 382.133,00 (USD)

Contact cardumecurtas@gmail.com bruno@brunotorres.com.br

Production Company

Fuskazul Filmes

is an independent production company that values the diffusion of authorial works outside the hegemonic axis. Besides producing cinema and theater, it is the creator of the CARDUME platform, a streaming exhibition of independent Brazilian short films. In an attempt to encourage Brazilian audiovisual production, it develops prizes, edicts and other initiatives that catalyze the production of independent works.

BRUNO TORRES is a producer, actor, and filmmaker. His films have won over one hundred awards and have been shown at festivals around the world. Member of the Brazilian Film Academy, in 2016 he was part of the selection committee for the Brazilian representative to the Goya. In 2020, he became the first Brazilian producer to offset the carbon from all his professional and personal activities, through the companies Ecooar, Sustainable Carbon and Iniciativa Verde.