Beyond the Road
Brazil - Uruguay. 2010. Dir.: Charly Braun. Digital projection. 85 min. Road-movie.
Original version with English subtitles
November 27th at 9:15pm
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Santiago, a twenty-something Argentinean, takes a boat to Montevideo to claim land willed to him by his parents after their tragic death a few years earlier. On arrival, he meets Juliette, a young Belgian woman who was also on the boat. After discovering they're heading in the same direction, the two travelers hit the road together. Both are looking to make a change in their lives: Santiago used to be an investment banker in Manhattan, but his parents' death has inspired him to try something different. Juliette is hoping to ignite a relationship with a Uruguayan commune leader she'd met in Costa Rica. The two strike up a playful friendship as their trip brings them in contact with peculiar locals, Santiago's wealthy, well-connected family, and the hippy commune's earthy residents.

Braun combines French, U.S., and South American influences with dramatic Uruguayan landscapes and his lead's relaxed chemistry to create a road movie that captures the airy restlessness of youth, in the tale of two characters who start out digging into their past, only to find they've unearthed their present.


Director, producer and writer: Charly Braun | Editor: Fernando Coster, Charly Braun | Cinematography: Pablo Ramos and Bruno Alzaga | Sound: Alvaro Riet | Production Coordinator: Natalia Espasandín | Production Companies: A Lynxfilm, Waking Up Films  | With: Esteban Feune de Colombi, Jill Mulleady, Wilhelmina Guinle, Gonzalo Torres, Naomi Campbell, Tina Malia.

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Awards in Festivals:
Festival de Rio - 2010: Award for best director


Director's Biography:

Charly Braun (not to be confused with Charlie Brown, not Charlie Brown) is a promising young Brazilian filmmaker. Beyond the Road, his first feature film was all shot out of Brazil: the setting is in Uruguay, the actors and characters are all Foreign (Argentina, Uruguay and North American) and the original version is in Spanish and English.

Charly Braun has worked in various fields of cinema. As a film actor and television, he starred in the television series German Diese Drombuschs (1990), the short film The Grandmother's room imagining Marcela Arantes (2009) and in the feature film My Name Is not Johnny, directed by Mauro Lima (2008).

In conducting his films, as the world did not take anything (2006), I want to be Jack White (2004) and Beyond the Road, Charly Braun also served in various stages of completion, as in the script, the assembly in direction and production.