"All these days when I'm a foreigner"
DCP, 4K, 90min, Color, aOriginal Script, Portuguese
Financing: Funcultura – PE (Regional arrangements) | Ancine | BRDE
This is a drama that unfolds in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro. Young João has just been hired as a waiter in a restaurant on the Dutra highway. He recently moved to the outskirts of Rio, joining his older brother Luís, who is already settled in the city and a rising employee at the establishment.
João, who brings with him simple and true feelings and aspirations, needs to get used to his new life, having his friendship with his brother as his greatest balance board. All those born in his small village in the interior receive the surname Caraíba, thus becoming all brothers.
He meets and identifies with a group of young motorcycle couriers and motorcycle girls who hang out in the square in front of her house, a group of which Maria is a part.
A few days after arriving in the city, João ends up getting involved in a fight after hearing a xenophobic comment at work. The conflict escalates for the assistant waiter because Luís, who had just been promoted to manager, not only does not defend him, but also becomes part of the aggression against him. João, expelled from the place and abandoned by the one who was his greatest reference, is taken in by Maria.
From then on, he follows his own path, rebuilding himself on new foundations through the relationship of complicity and affection that he builds with the motorcycle girl, through which they heal their wounds and become stronger. However, the conflict in the restaurant involving the brothers will have unexpected consequences.
All These Days I'm a Foreigner is an urban chronicle about young characters living with the feeling of being a foreigner in their own country and in the process of displacement and transformation of their fears.
Graduated in Cinema, with films selected in Rotterdam, Toulouse, Havana, Viña Del Mar, Biarritz, Rio, Brasília, Gramado, Tiradentes among others.
Among his projects, his first feature film, "Death Lives at Night", and the short films "All These Days I Am a Foreigner", "I Should Never Have Returned", "When We Die at Night and Sea of Exile stand out", which have accumulated more than 100 awards, including best director in Brasília, best short film at the Rio Festival, new director award in São Paulo, best short film at the Tiradentes Film Festival, among others.
The project for his next feature film "All Those Days I Am a Foreigner", to be produced in the second half of 2024, was selected for Ventana Sur 2023, the largest audiovisual event in Latin America and one of the largest in the world, in the Proyecta section, a joint initiative of Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires, Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival and the San Sebastián Film Festival.
Audiovisual producer, curator and director of the festivals Curta Taquary, Poesia na Tela and Criancine. He studied “Film script” and “Curatorship, management and network of film festivals” at EICTV (Cuba). He has worked in the audiovisual industry since 2005 in the development, dissemination and production of short and feature films and TV productions. He has produced works shown in more than 100 national and international festivals and exhibitions, including: Cannes, Biarritz (France), Busan (South Korea), Havana (Cuba), Brasília (DF), Gramado (RS) and Tiradentes (MG). He collaborated with the curatorship of the international festivals: Thessaloniki LGBTQIFF (Greece), LABRFF (USA), Hacelo Corto (Argentina), Antofadocs and Muestra Polo Sur (Chile). It works on reforestation and recovery of deforested areas in the Caatinga, Brejo de altitude and Mata Atlântica biomes, in addition to restoring riparian forests on the Capibaribe River.
