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Charcoal

R13 NZ

Violence, offensive language, drug use & sexual references

MA15+ AU

Strong violence and drug use

DIRECTED BY: Carolina Markowicz

WRITTEN BY: Carolina Markowicz

STARRING: Maeve Jinkings, César Bordón, Jean Costa, Camila Márdila, Romulo Braga, Pedro Braga, Pedro Wagner, Aline Marta

RUN TIME: 107 minutes

Brazil, 2022. In a remote area in São Paulo’s countryside, a rural family who lives beside a charcoal factory accepts a proposal to host a mysterious foreigner. The mother, her husband and child will have to learn how to share the same roof with this stranger, while keeping up appearances of an unchanged peasant routine.

★★★★ "Markowicz maintains a tight grip on the tone, keeping it just on the biting point between black comedy and agonising suspense." - The Guardian

★★★★ "The performances are note-perfect, the tension consistent." - The Times