The Movie of My Life

I arrived and he left. The rest, I can't tell.

Directed by Selton Mello

Produced by Bananeira Filmes

A contemplative, character-driven exploration of absence and identity set in rural 1960s Brazil, where a young man searches for paternal connection through cinema, poetry, and mentorship.

The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good, back to France. Tony then looks for the company of his fathers friends in search of information and references of a lost male role-model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his fathers' whereabouts and reasons for leaving.