Low Light

by ​Bel Bechara, Sandro Serpa
Category
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Director
Bel Bechara, Sandro Serpa
Country / Year
Brazil, 2026
Genre
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Rights
Festivals, Sales
Length
110', col.

SYNOPSIS

Vera, a teacher, and Alda, a school cleaner, are neighbors whose lives are brought together by Alda’s granddaughter, one of Vera’s students. Both women are trapped in different forms of male control: Vera in an abusive relationship with her younger boyfriend, Alda by a son who expects her life to revolve around him and his daughter. Across differences of class and experience, their growing friendship becomes a space where they can imagine other ways of living. As private violence begins to spill into the public sphere, their fragile autonomy is put at risk. Woven throughout by the songs of Brazilian singer-songwriter Karina Buhr, Low Light moves between social realism, music and poetry to portray friendship as a form of resistance.

DIRECTOR

Bel Bechara and Sandro Serpa have worked together since the early 2000s. They have directed seven short films, which have received several awards and been screened at major festivals such as Oberhausen, Huesca, Huelva, among others. They have also directed three feature-length documentaries, including Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life which premiered at It’s All True 2024. In 2019, they released their first fiction feature film, Wherever You Are, which received awards at festivals in Brazil and was screened in several countries. Low Light (Lusco Fusco) is the duo’s second fiction feature film, whose trajectory has already been marked by important appearances at its WIP stage: Toulouse / São Paulo Cine en Construcción, Brasil CineMundi in Belo Horizonte and Final Cut at Buenos Aires Ventana Sur, where the film won the Cine+ OCS Award, among others.


PHOTOGALLERY

    • Title
      Low Light
    • Rights
      Festivals, Sales
    • Country
      Brazil
    • Year
      2026
    • Length
      110′, col.
    • Director
      Bel Bechara, Sandro Serpa
    • Screenplay
      Bel Bechara, Sandro Serpa
    • Editing
      Bel Bechara, Sandro Serpa
    • Photography
      Léo Bittencourt
    • Sound
      Marcelo Grell
    • Production Design
      Glauce Queiroz
    • Costumes
      Yuri Kobayashi
    • Hair & Make up
      Simone Souza
    • Casting
      Melina Anthis
    • Cast
      Sandra Corveloni, Amandyra,
      Duda Sampaio, Allan Souza Lima,
      Pedro Ottoni, Karina Buhr
    • Production Manager
      Karina Lima
    • Executive Producer
      Rafaella Costa, Stella Rainer
    • Producer
      Rafaella Costa
    • Production
      Manjericão Filmes
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