Suçuarana

Dora hitches rides through Brazil’s mining region, searching for a place nobody has heard of: Suçuarana, a piece of land that belonged to her family. The first feature collaboration of filmmakers Clarissa Campolina and Sérgio Borges is a gentle portrait of both independence and community.

Dora is used to being alone. She hitches rides through Brazil’s mining region, performing ephemeral jobs and sleeping wherever she can. But, she does in fact have a destination: Suçuarana, the place that appears in a worn-out photograph of her mother. After a car accident, Dora lands in a community where she feels at ease: these people work together, share meals and chores, enjoy evenings drinking beer or playing dominos. But Dora is a woman who lives in constant movement – always on the road.

Without excessive exposition but with force and conviction, Suçuarana plunges us into Dora’s trajectory. The filmmakers observe, with a keen eye, the immediate reality that surrounds her while simultaneously capturing the pulsation of a certain spirituality: dances and rituals, the weight of memories, the protective spirit of a dog and the incantatory name of a place – Suçuarana – that nobody in the region seems to know about. Perhaps a mythical land…

–  Cristina Álvarez López

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