Maeve Jinkings
4 titles
Filmography
4 results

Charcoal
(2022)A family in São Paulo's countryside accepts a mysterious guest into their home, only to discover he's a wanted Argentine drug lord. With their house his new-found hideout, the family must learn how to live with a dangerous criminal while keeping up the illusion of an unchanged routine to their neighbours. Written and directed by Carolina Markowicz in her feature debut.

Açúcar
(2017)Bethania, a woman who has both black and white ancestry, returns to her families farm. Between photos, fantastic creatures, bills to pay, workers claiming their rights over the land, sounds and memories of the old manor house, Bethania faces herself in a present where past and future are both threatening.

Neighboring Sounds
(2012)The convergences and complexities of life in a middle-class suburb of Recife, Brazil, are played out in mesmerizing style in this stunning debut feature from film critic turned director Kleber Mendonça Filho. Taking a broad, diverse set of strikingly realistic characters - including a bored housewife seeking solace in technology, a descendant of colonial landowners struggling with his dark, mysterious past and a security company employed to provide protection to them all – Filho paints a rich, detailed portrait of a community connected and engulfed by fear, desire and the incessant murmur of modern life. A beautifully subtle, fiercely intelligent and utterly engrossing snap-shot of present-day Brazil, this bold, compelling and endlessly intriguing film has announced one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary world cinema.

Duetto
(2022)Set in the mid-1960s, young Cora travels with her grandmother to her hometown in Italy following her father's death in a car accident.