A broke Brazilian inventor promises to build a time machine—for love, not science.
In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before losing his love, Dona Nazaré’s son, Antônio, takes the first step in a kamikaze crusade to bring the world to Karina. For that, Antônio leaves town and announces, in a TV show that he will set off on a sensational adventure: a trip into the future, starting from Nordestina’s square. A story where dreams contradict reality, geographical and political conditions threaten to block life, and love plays the part of the transforming element.
Acting
Paulo Autran's weathered gravitas as Future Antônio steals every frame.
Direction
Falcão treats magical realism like documentary—no winking at the camera.
Production
The rusted, sun-bleached aesthetic makes poverty look almost aspirational.
Director
João Falcão
Paulo Autran
Antônio no Futuro
Gustavo Falcão
Antônio
Mariana Ximenes
Karina
Vladimir Brichta
José Onório
Fabiana Karla
Dona Nazaré
Wagner Moura
Apresentador da TV
Lázaro Ramos
Doido Cético
Zéu Britto
Doido Cantador
Val Perré
Valdene (adulto)
Prazeres Barbosa
Prazeres
Osvaldo Mil
Seu Neco
Cristiane Ferreira
Maria da Graça
Fernanda Beling
Jéssica
Aramis Trindade
Doido da Mochila
Edmilson Barros
Doido Discípulo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Paulo Autran was 80 during filming and had to be carried to some locations; his frailty was written into the role.
The film satirizes 'Fome Zero'—Lula's poverty program—by showing how political promises become local mythology in Brazil's sertão.
BR
