25 minutes to break your heart and rebuild it backwards.
Haunted by memories and repressed guilt, Lucas embarks on a sensory and intimate journey of self-discovery, confronting the invisible impact of a violence that still reverberates through society.
Direction
Feldens weaponizes silence and negative space.
Acting
Teixeira's body carries what words cannot.
Cinematography
Close-ups that feel like confessions.
Director
Carlos Feldens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brazilian short-form cinema has become a vital space for queer narratives too raw for mainstream funding — Quebrado follows a lineage including Karim Aïnouz's early work.
The film's title translates to 'broken' but also evokes 'quebrada' — Brazilian slang for working-class neighborhoods, layering class and queer trauma.
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