Abandoned by your godmother at your deadbeat dad's door—family reunion from hell, Brazilian style.
A young man who goes through a series of losses and discoveries after being dropped off by the godmother who raised him in the house of the father he didn't know existed.
Acting
Rafael Vitti's Júpiter—vulnerable, chaotic, devastatingly specific.
Writing
Abujamra balances Brazilian family chaos with surgical emotional precision.
Director
Marco Abujamra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Abujamra developed this from his own experience being raised by godparents, then meeting his biological father as an adult.
The godparent ('padrinho') tradition in Brazil creates complex informal kinship networks rarely explored in cinema.
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