Charcoal

By Carolina Markowicz

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Country: Brazil

Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

Original title: Charcoal

Casting: Maeve Jinkings (Aquarius, Neon Bull), César Bordón (Wild Tales), Camila Márdila (The Second Mother)

Production year: 2022

Runtime: 107

Production company: Superfilmes, Biônica Filmes, Ajimolido Films

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.