Hopefuls
Junior, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. He lives for soccer and desperately hangs onto the dream of becoming a famous player. Although he practices hard with his amateur team, he’s not one of the best. He won’t admit to the mounting jealousy he feels towards his talented friend doing extremely well on the pitch. Moreover, his prospect doesn’t look so rosy, now that his young girlfriend Carine is pregnant, and he also has to deal with her dominant mother poking her nose in…
Director: Ives Rosenfeld
Screenwriter: Ives Rosenfeld e Pedro Freire
Production Companies: Bubbles Project (Brazil) e Crisis Produtivas (Brazil)
Cast: Ariclenes Barroso, Sérgio Malheiros, Júlio Adrião, Julia Bernat and Karine Teles
Sales: FiGa Films
Year: 2015
Festivals
Locarno IFF – Switzerland (Works in Progress)
Karlovy Vary IFF – Forum of Independents Competition – Czech Republic
AFI LatAm – USA
Biarritz LatAm – France
Lakino – LatAm Berlin – Germany
Chicago IFF – USA
Adelaide Film Festival – Australia
Thessaloniki IFF – Greece
La Habana – Cuba
Kerala IFF – India
LatAm at FSLC New York – USA
Göteborg IFF – Sweden
San Diego LatAm – USA
Toulouse LatAm – France
Paris Brazilian Festival – France
Rotterdam LatAm – Netherlands
Vancouver LatAm – Canada
Luxemburgo Brazilian Festival – Luxembourg
Festival Luso Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival – Brazil
São Paulo International Film Festival – Brazil
Awards
Carte Blanche – Festival de Locarno
Best director, actor and actress at Rio International Film Festival 2015
Best film for Critics Prize at São Paulo Festival
Best actor and actress at Festival Janela de Recife (Brazil)
Best screenplay and editing at Festival de Fronteira (Brazil)
Best Film at Santa da Maria da Feira Film Festiva in Portugal