Toll (Pedágio)

Tuesday April 8 at 7:00pm

Carolina Markowicz

2023 Brazil   |   102 minutes

Co-presented with the LGBTQ+ Resource Center

Suellen, a toll booth attendant and single mother, falls in with a gang of thieves in an attempt to keep her family afloat. Her cause: sending her teenage son Antônio to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest. Antônio follows his own path to survival. A trenchant social commentary and a nuanced story of familial love and its excruciating limits. Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, 2024 Brazilian Academy of Cinema Awards  

Other films by Carolina Markowicz:

2022     Charcoal (Best Film, 2022 Brasília Film Festival)

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