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TOLL
PEDÁGIO
CAROLINA MARKOWICZ
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TOLL
PEDÁGIO
CAROLINA MARKOWICZ
Country
BRAZIL
language
PORTUGUESE
2023 year
101 Minutes

SCHEDULE

01.03.2024 / 10:20 AM/ Audi 7 PVR INOX ORION MALL
04.03.2024 / 12:10 PM/ Audi 5 PVR INOX ORION MALL

Synopsis

Suellen, a toll booth attendant, realizes she can use her job to help a gang of thieves steal prized accessories from the wealthy people driving between São Paulo and the coast, she convinces herself she’s doing it for a noble cause: to send her teenage son, Antonio to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned priest. But she unwittingly triggers a chain of events that will leave no one happy, except maybe the thieves.

Producer(s) or Production Company: Bionica filmes (Brazil), O Som e a Furia (Portugal)
Screenplay: Carolina markowicz
Director of Photography: Luís Armando Arteaga
Editor: Ricardo Saraiva, Lautaro Colace
Music: Filipe Derado
Sound: André Bellentani
Cast: Maeve Jinkings, Thomás Aquino, Kauan Alvarenga, Aline Marta, Isac Graça
Awards - Winner: Rome FF (Best Film), Rio de Janeiro IFF (Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: Toronto IFF (Centrepiece), San Sebastian IFF (Horizons Award,Sebastiane-Best Film Award), Vancouver IFF (Panorama)
Director's Biography
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CAROLINA MARKOWICZ

Carolina Markowicz (Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1982) has written and directed six short films selected for festivals including Cannes, Locarno, Toronto, SXSW, and AFI. She made LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP (2017), THE ORPHAN (2018), which premiered at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes in Cannes, where it became the first Brazilian film to win the Queer Palm, and SPIT (2019). CHARCOAL(2022), her first feature film, was selected for Films in Progress 2022 (Toulouse) and participated that same year in Horizontes Latinos in San Sebastian after having its premiere at the Toronto Festival.