

A 15-minute gut punch about childhood poverty that'll wreck your afternoon—in the best way.
In a school on the outskirts of São Paulo, social worker Sônia needs to remove nine-year-old Kairo from the classroom to have a difficult conversation.
Acting
Pedro Guilherme's silent devastation will haunt you.
Direction
Rodrigo lets the camera linger where it hurts most.
Director
Fabio Rodrigo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Brazilian short films examining public education crises in São Paulo's periphery.
The 15-minute runtime mirrors the actual duration of Sônia's intervention, creating real-time suffocation.