Directed by:
Aly MuritibaScreenplay:
Aly MuritibaCinematography:
Luis Armando ArteagaComposer:
Felipe AyresCast:
Antonio Saboia, Laila Garin, Thomas Aquino, Pedro Fasanaro, Zezita Matos, Sandro Guerra, Luthero Almeida, Otavio Linhares, Cynthia Senek, Flavio Bauraqui (more)VOD (1)
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“Remember when we talked about being alone in the world?” Sara is a genderfluid blue-collar worker who lives as her male birth identity Robson by day while caring for her religious grandmother in Sobradinho, a small town in northeast Brazil. Daniel, who teaches in a police academy in southern metropolis Curitiba, has been placed on unpaid leave after a violent incident that’s all over the news. Tense and tightly wound, he comes from a long line of police and military men, including his ailing father with whom he is tender and patient, displaying none of the machismo his work demands. The only thing holding him together is his online romance with Sara, whom he has never met in person. When she suddenly disappears, Daniel drives 2,000 miles across Brazil to find her, and what follows is a journey of the heart that will change Sara and Daniel forever. Boasting lush cinematography and a haunting atmospheric score, Private Desert is a swooning sun-baked romance, a powerful examination of masculinity, and a triumphant affirmation of queer love and humanity at a moment when LGBTQ+ rights are dangerously imperiled across the globe and in Brazil in particular, where annual recorded numbers of fatal violence against trans and queer people continues to be the highest of any other country in the world. (Kino Lorber)
(more)Cast
Antonio Saboia
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Bacurau (2019)
Private Desert (2021)
Laila Garin
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Private Desert (2021)
Thomas Aquino
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Bacurau (2019)
Private Desert (2021)
Futuro Beach (2014)
Pedro Fasanaro
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Private Desert (2021)
Zezita Matos
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Private Desert (2021)
Sandro Guerra
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Private Desert (2021)
Luthero Almeida
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Private Desert (2021)
Otavio Linhares
Brazil
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Private Desert (2021)
Cynthia Senek
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Private Desert (2021)
Flavio Bauraqui
Brazil
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The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (2019)
Drained (2006)
Macabre (2019)
Leo Miranda
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Private Desert (2021)
Jandir Santin
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Private Desert (2021)
Mazé Portugal
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Private Desert (2021)