Grief, growing up, and fish obsession in 19 perfect minutes.
Catarina is a young woman from the Baixada Fluminense who struggles to adapt to the changes in her life and in the Brazilian political scene. Still mourning the death of her mother and hopeless about her future prospects, she sees her adult life taking shape abruptly. While trying to learn how to grow up and how to deal with all this pressure, Catarina ends up developing a strange obsession with fishes.
Acting
Bela Carias carries entire emotional arcs in silence.
Direction
Dual directors nail the Baixada Fluminense specificity.
Director
Gabriel Saraiva
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Baixada Fluminense is Rio's most stigmatized periphery; the film refuses poverty tourism while capturing its specific political rage.
The fish metaphor connects to Catarina's mother—both suffocating in environments that should sustain them.
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