

15 minutes. One woman. A prison visit that changes everything.
Acting
Zezé Motta's face does what scripts can't.
Direction
Jaspe stretches 15 minutes into eternity.
Director
Mariana Jaspe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Brazilian shorts examining mass incarceration's domestic fallout, rarely seen by international audiences.
Jaspe filmed in actual visitors' waiting areas; the fluorescent lighting is documentary, not designed. That institutional pallor is real.