COMPETITIVA BRASILEIRA

The Messenger

LUCIA MURAT

2023, 110’

• COMPETITIVA BRASILEIRA
  28 Nov (17h40) CINESESC

The film has two main characters: the mother, a married, conservative, Catholic lady; and a young soldier, recently arrived from the South, who witnessed some barbarities and doesn`t know how to deal with it. He ends up taking the risk and agreeing to take a message from the prisoner to his mother, thus creating a bond that will experience countless contradictions.

about the director LUCIA MURAT

Her first feature film, Que Bom Te Ver Viva, premiered internationally at the Toronto Film Festival. With Doces Poderes, she premiered in 1997 at the Sundance Film Festival and at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2000, she released Brava Gente Brasileira, which also premiered in Toronto. With Quase Dois Irmãos, she won Best Director and Best Feature Film awards for Fipresci at the Rio Festival 2004, Best Feature Film at Amazonas Film Festival and Best Feature Film at Mar del Plata Festival 2005. At Rio Film Festival 2005, she premiered the documentary Olhar Estrangeiro and, in the 2007 edition of the festival, Maré, Nossa História de Amor, a co-production selected for the Berlin Festival Panorama. In 2010, she filmed the documentary Uma Longa Viagem (A Long Journey), the great winner of Gramado Festival, and, in 2013, she released A Memória que Me Contam, which won Fipresci at the Moscow Festival. In 2015, she premiered the documentary A Nação que Não Esperou Por Deus (The Nation That Didn’t Wait for God) at the festival É Tudo Verdade (It`s All True), and the essay Em Três Atos (In Three Acts) at the Rio Festival.

TRAILER  

original title

O MENSAGEIRO

country

Brazil, Argentina

screenplay

Lucia Murat, Tunico Amancio

cinematography

Jacob Solitrenic

editing

Mair Tavares, Marih Oliveira

production designer

Andre Weller

sound

Roberto Oliveira

sound designer

Simone Petrillo

soundtrack

Ezequiel Menalled

producer

Lucia Murat, Felicitas Raffo

executive producer

Branca Murat, Irene Calado, Julia Levy, Pamela Delgado

production company

Cepa Audiovisual

associate producer

Cepa Audiovisual

cast

Valentina Herszage, Shi Menegat, Georgette Fadel, Floriano Peixoto

contact

taiga@taigafilmes.com

The film has two main characters: the mother, a married, conservative, Catholic lady; and a young soldier, recently arrived from the South, who witnessed some barbarities and doesn`t know how to deal with it. He ends up taking the risk and agreeing to take a message from the prisoner to his mother, thus creating a bond that will experience countless contradictions.

FESTIVAIS E PRÊMIOS 2023 – 25º Festival do Rio 2023 – 47ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo 2020 – Edital de Cultura de Niterói – Único longa-metragem premiado 2020 - Guiões – Melhor roteiro pelo júri internacional – Portugal 2020 - Projeto Paradiso – apoio no mercado internacional 2020 - Guadalajara Constrye – prêmio de pós-produção do WIP

about the director LUCIA MURAT

Her first feature film, Que Bom Te Ver Viva, premiered internationally at the Toronto Film Festival. With Doces Poderes, she premiered in 1997 at the Sundance Film Festival and at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2000, she released Brava Gente Brasileira, which also premiered in Toronto. With Quase Dois Irmãos, she won Best Director and Best Feature Film awards for Fipresci at the Rio Festival 2004, Best Feature Film at Amazonas Film Festival and Best Feature Film at Mar del Plata Festival 2005. At Rio Film Festival 2005, she premiered the documentary Olhar Estrangeiro and, in the 2007 edition of the festival, Maré, Nossa História de Amor, a co-production selected for the Berlin Festival Panorama. In 2010, she filmed the documentary Uma Longa Viagem (A Long Journey), the great winner of Gramado Festival, and, in 2013, she released A Memória que Me Contam, which won Fipresci at the Moscow Festival. In 2015, she premiered the documentary A Nação que Não Esperou Por Deus (The Nation That Didn’t Wait for God) at the festival É Tudo Verdade (It`s All True), and the essay Em Três Atos (In Three Acts) at the Rio Festival.