A day in the life of Malaika, an albino teenager, in the rural region of Northeastern Brazil. Sunlight is a threat, as is her daily routine with her mother, Isabel, a Black woman who works for a bourgeois family. While Malaika searches for her identity in the world, a wolf prowls her path.
First Brazilian Screening at the 49th Mostra.
Malaika
2025
10 years
85 min.
Fiction
Brazil
Brazil, adolescence, identity
Colorido
André Morais
André Morais
João Carlos Beltrão
André Morais, Edson Lemos Akatoy
Vitória Bianco, Norma Góes, Joyce Barbosa, Ingrid Trigueiro, Margarida Santos, Ubiratan de Assis, João Araújo, Melânia Silveira, Sebastião Formiga, Anna Raquel Apolinário, Márcio de Paula
André Morais, Clémentine Mourão-Ferreira
Luz e Mistério Filmes
Valério Fiel
Embaúba Filmes
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