Cannes is coming, and there are Brazilian films going to France! The debut feature film by Brazilian director Lillah Halla, “Levante” (“Power Alley”, in English), won first world at the prestigious Cannes International Film Festival, next Tuesday (23). The 76th edition of the event takes place from the 16th to the 27th of May.
A co-production between Arissas (Brazil), Manjericão Filmes (Brazil), In Vivo Films (France) and Cimarrón Cine (Uruguay), the film was selected for Critics’ Week, one of the festival’s most traditional screenings, in which Lillah Halla was revealed in 2020 with the short film “Menarca”.
The plot of “Levante” shows how the future freedom and autonomy of a young volleyball player are threatened by a conservative and violent herd effect. In the main cast are Ayomi Domenica Dias, Loro Bardot, Grace Passô, Gláucia Vandeveld and Rômulo Braga.
With the phrase “Difficult times call for furious moves” as an epigraph, the film’s synopsis tells that, on the eve of the volleyball championship that is decisive for her future as an athlete, Sofia, 17, discovers an unwanted pregnancy. In an attempt to stop her clandestinely, she ends up becoming the target of a fundamentalist group determined to stop her at any cost, but neither Sofia nor those who love her are willing to surrender to the blind fervor of the herd.
The film will be represented at the exhibition at the French event by a respected delegation, which will include director Lillah Halla, producers Rafaella Costa (Manjericão Filmes), Clarissa Guarilha (Arissas), Louise Bellicaud (In Vivo Films) and Claire Charles-Gervais (In Vivo Films), co-producer Santiago López (Cimarrón Cine), screenwriter María Elena Morán, script supervisor Camila Agustini, art director Maíra Mesquita, sound editor Waldir Xavier and, finally, actors Ayomi Domenica Dias (Sofia), Loro Bardot (Bel), Onna Silva (Nicolle), Lorre Motta (Ciano), Heloísa Pires (Rebeca), Karina Rie Ishida (Mayumi) and Helô Campelo (Elisa).
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