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THE BEST MOTHER IN THE WORLD

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September 4 @ 7:00 pm - 8:45 pm

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Director: Anna Muylaert
Brazil | 2025 | Portuguese with English subtitles | 105 min |
**There is a 2nd screening of this film on Sept 7th

The Festival is pleased to announce, as its Opening Night Film, the North American premiere of the latest film by the incredible Brazilian director, Anna Muylaert, (to whom VLAFF dedicated a retrospective in 2016).

To escape her abusive husband, garbage collector Gal packs her two young children, Rihanna and Benin, onto the top of her cart and heads across São Paulo to her cousin’s house. As she struggles to avoid the dangers of the streets along the way, she convinces the children that they are on a big and exciting adventure. When they arrive at her cousin’s house, they are warmly welcomed and fed. However, what initially seems like a safe haven soon turns out to be a trap. Gal realizes that not only her own safety is at risk, but also the future of her children.

World Premiere, Berlin Film Festival, 2o25

 

The best mother in the world STILL.

ANNA MUYLAERT

ANNA MUYLAERT, The screenwriter and director was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1964. She has written several series for Brazilian television and has collaborated on the screenplays for a number of feature films including Cao Hamburger’s The Year My Parents Went on Vacation which screened in the Berlinale Competition in 2007. As a director, she has made eight feature films to date of which The Second Mother won the 2015 Panorama Audience Award. Her work most recently featured at the Berlinale in 2016 with Don’t Call Me Son. VLAFF held a retrospective on her body of work in 2016.