Castanha
6.1
Joao is a 50 year old actor who lives with his 72 year old mother, Celina. He spends his time between his work at night as a crossdresser in small gay bars and his parts in small plays, movies and TV shows. Tormented and haunted by ghosts from his past, day after day Joao starts to merge the reality in which he lived with the fiction he is interpreting.
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Cast
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João Carlos Castanha
João Carlos Castanha
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Família em Construção
Celina Castanha
Celina Castanha
Sandro Fiorin
Davi Pretto
Bruno Carboni
Zé Adão Barbosa
Zé Adão Barbosa
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Hard Paint
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Tiago Bello
Paola Wink
Francisco Jairo da Silva
Francisco Jairo da Silva
Diego Poloni
Gabriel Nunes
Marcelo
Glauco Firpo
Davi Pretto Director · Diego Poloni Composer Tiago Abrahão Composer
United States release April 19, 2014 · Produced in Brazil · Production Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre, Gogó Conteúdo Sonoro
Production
Tokyo Filmes
Production
Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre
Production
Gogó Conteúdo Sonoro
Production
Brazil
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Languages
Original language
Portuguese
Spoken on screen
Portuguese
Release dates
Germany · February 7, 2014
Premiere · Berlin International Film Festival
United States · April 19, 2014
Premiere · Art of the Real Film Lincoln Center
Brazil · November 20, 2014
Limited theatrical
United States
September 26, 2014 · Premiere · San Francisco Latino Film Festival
Argentina
April 10, 2014 · Premiere · Bafici Buenos Aires International Film Festival
Australia
March 1, 2015 · Mardi Gras Film Festival
Brazil
July 22, 2014 · Premiere · Paulínia Film Festival
September 6, 2014 · Premiere · Farol - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Fortaleza
September 25, 2014 · Premiere · Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
October 14, 2014 · Premiere · Diálogo de Cinema
October 17, 2014 · Premiere · Mostra CineBH
October 20, 2014 · Premiere · São Paulo International Film Festival
Cuba
December 12, 2014 · Premiere · Havana Film Festival
Denmark
April 11, 2014 · Premiere · CPH:Pix
Ecuador
November 16, 2014 · Premiere · Cuenca Film Festival
France
May 15, 2015 · Premiere · Paris Brazilian Film Festival
Germany
April 12, 2014 · Premiere · Cine Latino Tübingen
Hong Kong SAR China
April 2, 2014 · Premiere · Hong Kong International Film Festival
Luxembourg
November 16, 2015 · Festival du Film Brésilien du Luxembourg
Mexico
January 20, 2015 · Mérida y Yucatán Film Festival
Portugal
September 20, 2014 · Premiere · QueerLisboa
Spain
May 31, 2014 · Las Palmas Film Festival
Switzerland
January 19, 2015 · French speaking region
United Kingdom
June 21, 2014 · Edinburgh International Film Festival
Uruguay
July 28, 2014 · Premiere · DocMontevideo
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