Death and Life Madalena - Movie

Death and Life Madalena

Guto Parente
Fiction : 85' / Comedy, Community, Queer

Madalena is a film producer who is eight months pregnant and is about to shoot a low-budget sci-fi film written by her recently deceased father. When Davi, the film's director and her ex-husband, mysteriously disappears from the set, Madalena must do whatever she can to finish the film before the baby is born.

Sections: QL - Special Screenings
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/ Details

Year: 2025

Country: Brazil, Portugal

Language: portuguese

Subtitles: english

With: Noá Bonoba, Linga Acácio, Nataly Rocha, Tavinho Teixeira, Marcus Curvelo, David Santos, Honório Félix, Jennifer Joingley, Rodrigo Fernandes

/ Direction

Guto Parente

Brazil

Guto Parente was born in 1983 in Fortaleza, Brazil. He finished his Film studies in 2008 at Escola do Audiovisual de Fortaleza and from 2008 until 2016 was member of the artists collective Alumbramento, a period where he wrote and directed seven shorts and six feature films, most of them made with small crews, fast shootings and very low budgets. By the end of that period, Guto Parente and Ticiana Augusto Lima, his creative partner and producer since 2011, founded the production company Tardo Films. Guto's works have screened in film festivals such as Locarno, Rotterdam, Viennale, FID Marseille and Bafici, among others.