Julia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke up, Julia is thrown into a desperate, painful process. Her life and her values have been tinged with unbearable melancholy and her life's measure seems reduced to out-of-focus fragments of her memories. Her inner turmoil and conflicts hamper a process now made necessary - that of readapting to her new life. It is impossible for her to disguise her pain when she attempts to narrate emotions.

Director: Malu De Martino | Screenplay: José de Carvalho | Editor: Pedro Rossi | Sound: Paulo Ricardo Nunes | Cinematography: Heloísa Passos  | Art Direction: Rafael Ronconi  | Producer: Elisa Tolomelli | Production Companies: Europa Filmes, Estúdios Quanta, DeLart Estúdios Cinematográficos. | With: Ana Paula Arósio, Murilo Rosa, Natália Lage and Bianca Comparato.


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Director’s Biography:

Malu de Martino is the director and writer, formed in media on the facade (Integrated College Hélio Alonso) in Rio de Janeiro. Women of Brazil was her first feature-length fiction, where the director met a single movie stories of five women from different regions of Brazil. Her latest film, So Hard To Forget is another female portrait, drawn this time from a loss of love.