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Construção

2011 · 71 min

A quiet, patient documentary that drifts between two lives, asking you to sit with absence and belonging rather than follow a story.

Overview
The trajectory of Branca, a 3 years old Brazilian, and Marcos. They never met in life before seeing themselves on screen. Branca travels to Cuba, her father homeland, in the anniversary of the revolution.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • identity
  • memory
  • politics
  • isolation
Places
  • road trip
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Carolina Sá
Written by
Carolina Sá, Frederico Coelho
Runtime
71 min
Country
Cuba, Brazil
Languages
Portuguese

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