2022 | Brazil | Fiction

Carvão (Charcoal)

  • Portuguese, Spanish English 107 mins
  • Director | Carolina Markowicz
  • Writer | Carolina Markowicz
  • Producer | Zita Carvalhosa

STATUS: Released

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Brazil, 2022. In a remote area in São Paulo’s countryside, a rural family who lives beside a charcoal factory accepts a proposal to host a mysterious foreign guest. The home soon becomes a hideout as the so-called guest happens to be a highly wanted drug lord. The mother, her husband and child will have to learn how to share the same roof with this stranger, whilst keeping up appearances of an unchanged peasant routine.

Mystery Poverty Rural Life First Feature Film fiction family charcoal factory hideout drug lord mother stranger