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// Presented as part of March's Spotlight on Brazil II Series //

Fellipe Barbosa / 2015, Rotterdam, BFI London, CPH:PIX, Denver, Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira, Janela do Recife International Film Festival, Jeonju, Munich, Paulínia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, San Sebastián, Sydney, Taipei, Toulouse / 115'

Jean attends an elite boys-only high school in Rio de Janeiro. Big decisions, such as his university applications, loom on the horizon—yet Jean's priority is his budding sexuality, from unsuccessful encounters at nightclubs to sneaking into the maid's quarters of his family's august estate late at night. Meanwhile, signs of the family's financial instability accumulate around him: first, the driver Severino is let go; telephone calls from his father's hedge fund associates go unanswered; his mother begins peddling luxury cosmetics to wealthy housewives she once counted as her peers. A courtship with a girl he met on the bus leads Jean into a new geography of the city, where he is also forced to confront the extent of his privilege.

Refracting a young man's coming-of-age through an entangled web of class, race, and gender relations, Casa Grande paints a searing portrait of the hierarchies governing contemporary Brazilian society. Fellipe Barbosa's narrative debut premiered at Rotterdam, Taipei, and San Sebastián; CPH:PIX, where it won an Honorable Mention; Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira, where it won a Jury Award; Paulínia, where it won Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay; and Toulouse, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize.

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