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Arame farpado

Barbed Wire
Generation 14plus 2025
© Renato Groberman Hojda
In the countryside outside São Paulo, 12-year-old Angelina and her younger brother Santiago stretch barbed wire across a dirt road, aiming to scratch their stepfather’s truck as it speeds past. But the plan goes horribly wrong and an innocent bystander is injured. The siblings’ older sister Evita comes to their rescue and they spend a tense, sleepless night together in an overcrowded hospital emergency room, where the buried tensions in the family rise to the surface. Forced into confrontations with strangers from different walks of life, Angelina, Evita and their stepfather Zé Luis must face the consequences of their actions and struggle to understand each other as a family.
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by Gustavo de Carvalho (Director, Screenplay)
with Camila Botelho, Isabella Guido, Ricardo Bagge, Gabriel Novaes, Bruna Domingues, Dione Castro, Ivan Pinto, Luisa Cação Brazil 2025 Portuguese 22' Colour World premiere | Short Film recommendation: 14 years and up

With

  • Camila Botelho (Evita)
  • Isabella Guido (Angelina)
  • Ricardo Bagge (Zé Luis)
  • Gabriel Novaes (Santiago)
  • Bruna Domingues (Mãe)
  • Dione Castro (Ariane)
  • Ivan Pinto (Minister)
  • Luisa Cação (receptionist)

Crew

Director Gustavo de Carvalho
Screenplay Gustavo de Carvalho
Cinematography Renato Hojda
Editing Diego Rossi, Jianni Alesi
Music Tiago Abreu
Sound Design Igor Yamawaki
Production Design Beatriz Xavier
Producer Luisa Cação
Executive Producer Luisa Cação

Produced by

UFO FILMES

Photos

Gustavo de Carvalho

The director and screenwriter grew up in the São Paulo countryside in Brazil and studied film and audiovisual media at the Universidade Anhembi Morumbi. He has made several short films set in small and isolated Brazilian towns which nevertheless focus on universal struggles: the search for meaning in everyday life, the violent political landscape, a thirst for justice, human relationships and the consequences of social inequality.

Filmography

2018 Apoteose (Apotheosis); short film 2019 Um Copo de Chocolate Quente (Hot Chocolate); short film · VINIL; short film 2020 2023; short film 2021 Abdução de Pedro (Our Uncle Pedro); short film 2022 Voto Nulo (Blank Ballot); short film 2024 Eletricidade (Electric Lands); short film · Nascido das Árvores (Born Out of Trees); short documentary 2025 Arame farpado (Barbed Wire); short film

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025