HEARTLESS
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HEARTLESS

Directed by Nara Normande, Tião

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Director: Nara Normande, Tião
Section: CineVision Competition
Country: Brazil, France, Italy
Year: 2023
PT: SEM CORAÇÃO
OT: SEM CORAÇÃO
Language: Portuguese
Version: Original version with English subtitles
Cast: Maya de Vicq, Eduarda Samara, Maeve Jinkings, Erom Cordeiro, Ian Boechat
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

A moving story about coming of age, featuring an outstanding cast of non-professional actors.

It’s 1996 in a fishing village on the Brazilian coast. Tamara is enjoying her last summer with her clique before she goes off to college in Brasília. When she hears about a girl who is called “sem coração” (“heartless”) because of a scar on her chest, she feels drawn to her. Meanwhile, a propensity for violence spreads among her friends. 

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Photocredits: Director's Photos: Vanessa Mota

Calendar

  • After the film: Q&A with Nara Normande

    Filmmuseum
  • After the film: Q&A with Nara Normande

    City 3

Meet the director

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Nara Normande, Tião

Nara Nomande’s animated short film GUAXUMA (2018) earned 70 awards, including one for best animation at the South by Southwest film festival. She and Tião made the short film SEM CORAÇÃO (2014), on which her first feature film of the same title is based.

Tião received the Un regard neuf Award for best short film at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2008 for MURO. He co-founded the Trincheira production company / collective of ideas.

Credits

Screenplay: Nara Normande, Tião
Director of Photography: Evgenia Alexandrova
Film Editor: Juliana Munhoz
Composer: Tratenwald
Production Designer: Thales Junqueira
Costume Design: Preta Marques
Sound: Lucas Caminha
Make-up artist: Natie Cortez
Producer: Emilie Lesclaux, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Production Company: Cinemascópio
Executive producer: Juliana Lemes, Dora Amorim
Co-Producer: Justin Pechberty, Damien Megherbi, Nadia Trevisan, Alberto Fasulo
Co-Production Company: Les Valseurs, Nefertiti Film
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