Burning Night

(Breve miragem de sol)

Eryk Rocha / Argentina, Brazil, France / 2019 / 98 min
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  • BFI London Film Festival

  • Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival

    Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Editing

  • IndieLisboa Int'l Independent Film Festival

    Best Feature Film
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Portuguese and Spanish with English subtitles

With Fabrício Boliveira, Bárbara Colen, Cadu N. Jay, Yuri Ribeiro

Paulo starts driving a cab to pay his bills and to cover child support for his son. Passengers’ stories intertwine with his own while he drives at night through Rio de Janeiro – a chaotic city in permanent reinvention. Even though each passenger has a different destination, Paulo is always the one steering the wheel, hoping for better days in a city falling apart.

Eryk Rocha’s edgy, impressionistic chronicle of the nocturnal encounters of a Rio cab driver vividly captures the strange unpredictability of a rapidly changing world.

Press

“There is plenty to like here, with Rocha delicately merging art and life to deliver a poignant and persuasive piece about loneliness, survival, and the quest for reinvention.” – Donna Kelly, Frankly My Dear UK

“Burning Night is seen, heard, and acted like few other Latin American movies.” – Javier Porta Fouz, La Nación

About the Director
Eryk Rocha is a filmmaker born in Brazil, in 1978. In 2002, he graduated from the film school of Los Baños, Cuba, where he directed his first feature Rocha Que Voa. The film was selected in Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam, and other festivals, winning Best Film in Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba. Since then, his career has been built up with seven features, collecting a prestigious presence in many international events such as Cannes, Sundance, New York, Montevideo, Guadalajara, Buenos Aires, Marseille, and Amsterdam.

Cinema Novo (2016), the seventh feature, won the L’Oeil d’Or for Best Documentary at the Cannes IFF. In 2019, Eryk launched his latest feature fiction, Burning Night, supported by CNC with Aide Aux Cinema du Monde award for post-production. Some of his works were purchased by MoMA and added to the museum’s permanent collection.

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