Charcoal

Section: Competiție
Title: Carvão
Director: Carolina Markowicz
Cast: César Bordón, Rômulo Braga, Jean de Almeida Costa, Aline Marta Maia
Duration: 1h 47
Country: Brazil
Language: pt/es
Year: 2022

Brazil, 2022. In a remote area in São Paulo’s countryside, a rural family who lives beside a charcoal factory accepts a proposal to host a mysterious foreign guest. The home soon becomes a hideout as the so-called guest happens to be a highly wanted drug lord. The mother, her husband and child will have to learn how to share the same roof with this stranger, whilst keeping up appearances of an unchanged peasant routine.