72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Os 12 trabalhos / The 12 Labours

Ricardo Elias
Brazil
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Heracles is a poor young black boy from São Paulo recently released from the remand home in which he was doing time who?s attempt to turn a new leaf in life lands him a job as a motorcycle courier. On his first day at work, still on trial, he is given twelve tasks to do, bringing him into contact with a motley crew of big city inhabitants: civil servants, cops, lawyers, teachers, drug dealers, etc. The tension between Heracles? apparent fragility in the face of the problems set before him and his endeavour to find a new life far from the world of crime draws a realistic portrait of one of the biggest social issues in today?s Brazil: that of youngsters with no perspectives.
Director
Ricardo Elias
Screenplay
Claudio Yosida, Ricardo Elias
Photography
Jay Yamashita
Edition
Willem Dias
Music
André Abujamra
Cast
Sidney Santiago, Flávio Bauraqui, Vera Mancini, Vanessa Giácomo, Francisca Queiroz
Running Time
90 m.
Country
Brazil
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