

Your grandma's funeral, but make it a fever dream of everything she never said.
A granddaughter gives a new meaning to her grandma's death through previously unspoken memories.
Direction
First-time filmmaker Carol AÓ announces herself fully formed.
Cinematography
Visual poem structure—every frame aches with intention.
Acting
Mendes and Cazumbá bridge decades in shared glances.

Director
Carol AÓ
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Brazil's emerging Black cinema wave, specifically Festival do Rio's spotlight on first-time Afro-Brazilian directors.
The title references samba enredo tradition—heaven as bureaucracy that fails Black women even in death.
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