Dinner with your crush turns into an exorcism of the soul.
A young Black artist named Jonas lives in the shadow of his authoritarian brother with whom he shares a house. However, when his upstairs neighbor, Lucia, accepts an invitation to dinner, Jonas begins a journey of personal reflection, confronting his own demons and ghosts and doubting himself.
Acting
Dan Ferreira's contained, trembling stillness.
Direction
Co-directors squeeze dread from domestic spaces.
Cinematography
Cramped frames that trap Jonas in his own life.
Director
Thiago Gomes Rosa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Emerging from Brazil's contemporary Black cinema movement, the film interrogates how racialized masculinity gets policed within families.
The 83-minute runtime is deliberate—Jonas's world is too small to sustain a longer film, and the compression mirrors his suffocation.
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