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Michael Wahrmann : 2012

With nothing more than a large suitcase, recently divorced André returns to his childhood home in São Paulo. He moves in with his father, a bad-tempered, wayward old man who leads a withdrawn life with no other company than his faithful dog. He is still waiting for the son who left thirty years earlier for the distant Soviet Union and never returned. Super-8 films shot by the brother and old scratched vinyl records, which André has found in a drawer, bring bits of the past back to life. However, the father doesn't want to know. In an attempt to get closer by evoking the past, André thereby undertakes a touching and ironic journey into the memory of a country where the spectre of dictatorship, the lure of communism, the passion for good cinema and music, and the regret for the decline of ideologies, still linger. Michael Wahrmann's first feature was winner of the CinemaXXI Award at Rome Film Festival 2012.