Meu nome é Bagdá
My Name Is Baghdad
Grace Orsato
Meu nome é Bagdá | My Name Is Baghdad by Caru Alves de Souza
BRA 2020, Generation
© Luh Barreto
Grace Orsato
Meu nome é Bagdá | My Name Is Baghdad by Caru Alves de Souza
BRA 2020, Generation
© Camila Cornelsen
Paulette Pink, Karina Buhr, Grace Orsato
Meu nome é Bagdá | My Name Is Baghdad by Caru Alves de Souza
BRA 2020, Generation
© Camila Cornelsen
Rolling through São Paulo on her skateboard, Baghdad wears her hair short, her trousers pulled up high, and her sweater tucked into the waistband. Baghdad is cool; she is a girl who respects whom she wants to respect – everyone else might find wet clumps of toilet paper hurled their way. She lives in a house of strong-willed, emancipated women and spends her days at the skatepark with a group of guys who like to hang around shirtless, playing cards and plucking their chest hair. Just like her protagonist, the director glides and swivels through the film with free, easy confidence and swaggering originality, not shying away from darker issues like violence, sexism and discrimination – yet also celebrating solidarity and resistance.
With
- Grace Orsato (Bagdá)
- Karina Buhr (Micheline)
- Marie Maymone (Joseane)
- Helena Luz (Bia)
- Nick Batista (Vanessa)
- William Costa (Deco)
- João Paulo Bienemann (Clever)
- Gilda Nomacce (Gladys)
- Paulette Pink (Gilda)
- Emílio Serrano (Emílio)
Crew
| Director | Caru Alves de Souza |
| Screenplay | Caru Alves de Souza, Josefina Trotta loosely based on the novel "Bagdá, o Skatista" by Toni Brandão |
| Cinematography | Camila Cornelsen |
| Editing | Willem Dias |
| Sound Design | Pedro Noizyman |
| Sound | René Brasil, André Bellentani |
| Production Design | Marinês Mencio |
| Costumes | Silvana Marcondes |
| Make-Up | Britney Federline |
| Assistant Director | Camila Nicodemos |
| Casting | Paula Pretta |
| Production Manager | Stella Rainer |
| Producers | Rafaella Costa, Caru Alves de Souza |
World Sales
Reel Suspects
Produced by
Manjericão Filmes
Tangerina Entretenimento
Maryanne Redpath, Karina Buhr, Caru Alves de Souza, Grace Orsato
Clear message: the section head with the team of the Brazilian film.
Meu nome é Bagdá | My Name Is Baghdad · Generation · Feb 25, 2020
Karina Buhr, Caru Alves de Souza, Grace Orsato
The actresses with the director.
Meu nome é Bagdá | My Name Is Baghdad · Generation · Feb 25, 2020
Group photo
The team of the winning film, the section head and the jury.
Meu nome é Bagdá | My Name Is Baghdad · Generation · Feb 28, 2020
Grace Orsato
The protagonist of the film that won the Grand Prix of the International Jury in Generation 14plus for the Best Film.
Meu nome é Bagdá | My Name Is Baghdad · Generation · Feb 28, 2020
Caru Alves de Souza
The director, screenwriter and producer was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1979. Her most recent feature film Meu nome é Bagdá won the Grand Prix of the International Jury in the Generation 14plus section of the 2020 Berlinale. She has also directed fiction and documentary films for Brazilian television. Her TV series De menor is inspired by her eponymous debut feature film which premiered at San Sebastián and went on to win Best Film at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival.
Filmography
2008 Mascarianas; documentary 2010 Vestígios (Remains); documentary 2011 Family Affair; short film · O mundo de Ulim e Oilut (The World of Ulim and Oilut); short film 2013 De menor (Underage) 2018 Causando na rua; documentary TV series 2019 Causando na Rua; serie, 13 episodes 2020 Meu nome é Bagdá (My Name Is Baghdad) 2023 Tudo igual…SQN (All the Same…but Not); serie, 8 episodes 2025 De menor (Underage)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025