Pacarrete is an old and crazy ballet dancer. Over the years, she works as the teacher for classic dance and ballet in Fortaleza with ambition. After retirement, she goes back to hometown. However, still undaunted, she decides to give a dance performance, as a gift “to the people”, on the eve of the city’s 200-year anniversary party. But it seems nobody cares.
This thrilling drama stars Marcelia Cartaxo, Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival for the classic “The Hour of the Star” by Suzana Amaral. With João Miguel, Zezita Matos and Soia Lira in the cast.
Marcélia Cartaxo, Zezita Matos, Soia Lira, João Miguel, Samya de Lavor, Débora Ingrid, Edneia Tutti Quinto, Rodger Rogério
- Directed by: Allan Deberton
- Written by: Allan Deberton, André Araújo, Samuel Brasileiro and Natália Maia
- Production: César Teixeira
- Director of Photography: Beto Martins
- Production Director: Clara Bastos
- Executive Producers: Allan Deberton and Ariadne Mazzetti
- Cast preparation: Christian Duurvoort
- Choreography: by Fauller and Wilemara Barros
- Direct Sound: Márcio Câmara
- Sound Design: Rodrigo Ferrante and Cauê Custódio
- Soundtrack: Original Fred Silveira
- Art Direction: Rodrigo Frota
- Costumes: Chris Garrido
- Makeup and Hair: Tayce Vale
- 22th Shanghai International Film Festival (Shanghai, China, 2019)
- 47th Gramado Film Festival (Gramado, Brazil, 2019) - Winner of 8 Kikitos: Best Film, Best Film, Popular Jury, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress (Soia Lira), Best Supporting Actor (João Miguel), Best Sound Design
- 26th Vitória Film Festival (Vitória, Brazil, 2019) - Best Actress Award
- 22nd FAM - Florianópolis Audiovisual Mercosul (Florianópolis, Brazil, 2019) - Best Film, Best Film Juri Popular
- 13th Buffalo International Film Festival (Buffalo, USA, 2019)
- 12th LABRIFF - Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA, 2019) - Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Editing
- 36th Bogotá International Film Festival (Bogotá, Columbia, 2019) - Best Bronze Film - Precolombian Circle
- 43rd São Paulo International Film Festival (São Paulo, Brazil, 2019)
- XV International Panorama Coisa de Cinema (Salvador, Brazil, 2019)
- 19th Scottsdale International Film Festival (Scottsdale, USA, 2019)
- 6th Mostra de Cinema de Gostoso (São Miguel do Gostoso, Brazil, 2019) - Best Film, Critics Award
- 34th Trieste Latin American Film Festival (Trieste, Italy, 2019)
- 14th Sertões National Film and Video Meeting (Floriano, Brazil, 2019) - Best Film, Best Characterization, Best Soundtrack, Best Actress, Best Editing
- 13th Annual Lone Star Film Festival (Fort Worth, USA, 2019)
- 12th Penedo Brazilian Film Festival (Sergipe, Brazil, 2019)
- III Brazilian Film Festival in China (Beijing, Macau, Shenzhen, Canton, Chongqing and Shanghai, China, 2019)
- 21st Rio Festival (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2019) - Premiere Brasil
- 12th Maranhão na Tela (Maranhão, Brazil, 2019)
- 21st Kinoarte Film Festival in Londrina (Londrina, Brazil, 2019)
- 18th First Plan 2019 - Juiz de Fora and Mercocidades Film Festival (Juiz de Fora, Brazil, 2019)
- 24th IFFK International Film Festival of Kerala (Kazhakoottam, India, 2019) - Best Director - Silver Crow Pheasant Award
- 2nd Walfredo Rodriguez Cinema Exhibition (João Pessoa, Brazil, 2019)
- 3rd CineFestival - Vale do Jaguaribe Film Festival (Russas, Brazil, 2019)
- Retrospective Exhibition / Expectation Cinema do Dragão 2020 (Fortaleza, Brazil, 2020)
- 23rd Tiradentes Cinema Exhibition (Tiradentes, Brazil, 2020)
- 2nd Women's International Film Festival (Calicut, Kerala, India, 2020)
- Spring 2020 New Jersey Film Festival (New Jersey, USA, 2020)
- 4th Aswan International Woman Film Festival (Aswan, Egypt, 2020)
- Glasgow International Film Festival 2020 (Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2020)
- 22nd SF INDIEFEST - San Francisco Independent Film Festival (San Francisco, USA, 2020)
- 11ºFESTIN - Portuguese Language Itinerant Film Festival (Lisbon, Portugal, 2020)
- 22nd Brazilian Film Festival of Paris (Paris, France, 2020)
- 27th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (San Diego, USA, 2020)
- 23rd Festival du Cinéma Brésilien de Paris (2021)
