A Strange Path

(Estranho Caminho)

Guto Parente / Brazil / 2023 / 83 min
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  • La Habana Film Festival

    Best Original Soundtrack, Best Film

  • Tribeca Film Festival

    Best Int'l Narrative, Best Performance, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography

  • Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival

    Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor

  • BAFICI Buenos Aires Int'l Festival of Independent Cinema

  • Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse

    Special Mention Jury Coup de Cœur

  • El Gouna Film Festival

    Bronze Star for Narrative Film

  • San Sebastian Int'l Film Festival

  • Agenda Brasil

    Best Film

  • Sao Paulo Int'l Film Festival

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Portuguese with English and Spanish subtitles

With Lucas Limeira, Carlos Francisco, Tarzia Firmino, Rita Cabaço, Renan Capivara, Ana Marlene

Experimental filmmaker David returns to Brazil after a decade, coinciding with the premiere of his feature film at a local festival. However, as the Covid-19 pandemic looms and the threat of lockdown intensifies, his professional plans are derailed. Forced to delay his departure, David’s focus shifts to his estranged relationship with his father, whom he has not seen in ten years.

Without a phone or stable accommodation, David finds himself at his father’s doorstep, initiating an uneasy and fragmented cohabitation. As David attempts to reconnect and understand the enigmatic man, he encounters resistance, navigating his father’s inscrutable and erratic behavior.

Set against the backdrop of an impending global crisis, this award-winning film explores themes of alienation, familial tension, and the struggle for connection. It garnered critical acclaim at the Tribeca Film Festival, winning Best International Narrative Feature, Best Performance, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.

Press

“Director Guto Parente makes use of experimental footage throughout the film to convey David's mood and accentuate the twists and turns of his journey. 'A Strange Path' is a deeply personal story about family and belonging.” – Casey Baron, Tribeca Film Festival

“A curious fantasy anchored both in pure fabrication worthy of a filmmaker, and in the most concrete of realities (the COVID-19 pandemic and the relationships between parents and sons).” – Lucas Oliveira, Cinematório

“A Strange Path shines like a peculiar fantasy, and in some ways like a tribute to experimental cinema, but from a very personal vision that makes everything narrated undeniably interesting and fresh.” – Raquel Loredo, Caiman Cuadernos de Cine

“A Strange Path surprises you with its direction and incorporates the pandemic to highlight the isolation and discomfort of relying on a parent you feel detached from and captures the yearning to overcome that hurdle.” – DarkSkyLady

About the Director
Guto Parente is a Brazilian director, screenwriter, and editor. He graduated in cinema at the Audiovisual School of Fortaleza. He was a member of the artist collective Alumbramento (2008-2016) and has been a partner of the production company Tardo Filmes since 2012.

Parente made 7 short films – including Flash Happy Society (2009) and Dogs Are Said to See Things (2012), shown at the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland) – and 9 feature films – including Road to Ythaca (2010) and The Monsters (2011), both competing at BAFICI (Argentina), where The Monsters received a special mention from the jury; The Mysterious Death of Pérola (2014), The Cannibal Club (2018), and Inferninho (2018), all three released at the Rotterdam IFF (Netherlands) and exhibited at various festivals around the world. His 10th feature film, A Strange Path, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.

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