ADRIFT
Brazil. 2009. Dir.: Heitor Dhalia. Digital projection. 97 min. Drama.
Original Portuguese version with French subtitles
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December 1st at 7pm
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Plot: It is the 80's, and fourteen year-old Filipa is spending her vacation at Búzios with her father, Mathias, her alcoholic mother, Clarice, and her two younger siblings in their beach house. When Filipa feels that the relationship of her parents is deteriorating, she snoops in her father's office. There she finds pictures of Mathias with his American lover Ângela hidden in a drawer of his desk. When Mathias and Clarice announce to their children that they are not going to live together for a period, the confused Filipa believes that Ângela is the responsible for the separation of her parents and discovers that the marriage of Mathias and Clarice is built on a bed of lies.


Screenplay: Heitor Dhalia | Cinematography: Ricardo Della Rosa | Art Direction: Guta Carvalho  | Editing: Gustavo Giani | Original Score: Antonio Pinto | Sound: Alessandro Laroca | Producers: Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Bel Berlinck, Matias Mariani, Fernando Meirelles  | Production: O2 Filmes | Starring: Vincent Cassel, Camilla Belle, Laura Neiva


Director’s Life:

Heitor Dhalia is a director and screenwriter born in Recife in 1970. Adrift competed in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.