Directed by:
Felipe BragançaScreenplay:
Felipe BragançaCinematography:
Glauco FirpoCast:
Higor Campagnaro, Isabél Zuaa, Catarina Wallenstein, Matamba Joaquim, Thiago Lacerda, Adriano Luz, Diogo Dória, Márcio Vito, Tainá Medina, Sophie CharlottePlots(1)
How to make a film in a country that is losing its identity? This is the question facing Fernando, the protagonist in A Yellow Animal: a bankrupt, thirty-something-white-male filmmaker from Brazil. On the basis of the adventures of this alter ego, versatile and productive director Felipe Bragança gives an imaginative, melancholy, provocative and colourful answer to this question in his new film. Obsessed by this grandfather's past, and pursued from an early age by the spirit of a Mozambiquan, Fernando's odyssey takes him to Mozambique and Portugal, ever closer to the roots of Brazil's cultural dilemma. A Yellow Animal argues for a Brazilian film that causes nationalist, ethnic and colonial boundaries to fade. Because, as with the best trips, in this tragicomic fable it's not so much about the destination, but the unpredictable journey. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
(more)Cast
Isabél Zuaa
Best movies:
Joaquim (2017)
Good Manners (2017)
Catarina Wallenstein
Portugal
Best movies:
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
The Gilded Cage (2013)
After Him (2007)
Matamba Joaquim
Best movies:
Thiago Lacerda
Brazil
Adriano Luz
Portugal
Best movies:
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, the Desolate One (2015)
John From (2015)
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
Diogo Dória
Portugal
Best movies:
The Portuguese Nun (2009)
Abraham's Valley (1993)
No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)
Márcio Vito
Brazil
Sophie Charlotte
West Germany
Best movies:
The Killer (2023)