HALF BROTHER (Meio Irmão)
Written and directed by Eliane Coster.
Produced by Rogério Zagallo, Oka Comunicações (Brazil).
Synopsis:
Sandra is 16 and her mother has been missing for days. She seeks out her half-brother Jorge, they have had little contact. When she finds him, he is being threatened not to leak a video he made of a homophobic attack on a friend he is secretly attracted to.
Half Brother has won the following awards:
- Best Film by First-Feature Director - at the 42ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo (2018) (Brazilian Association of Film Critics award).
- Best Brazilian Fiction Feature Film, the Petrobras Cinema Audience Award at the 42a Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo (2018).