TOLL

PEDÁGIO

By Carolina MARKOWICZ

LUXBOX - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2023

Suellen, a toll booth attendant, realizes she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally. But this is only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest.

Festivals
& Awards

San Sebastian FF 2023
Horizontes Latinos
Toronto - TIFF 2023
Centrepiece
Vancouver IFF 2023
Panorama
Rio de Janeiro IFF 2023
Première Brasil: Feature Film Competition Fiction - Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction
Sao Paulo IFF 2023
Brazil Showcase
Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux 2023
International Feature Film Competition - Special Mention
Rome Film Fest 2023
Progressive Cinema - Best Film
Leiden International Film Festival 2023
Emerging: Selections
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Drama, LGBT, Female director
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL, PORTUGAL
    • Languages
    • BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
    • Duration
    • 101 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Carolina MARKOWICZ
    • Writer(s)
    • Carolina MARKOWICZ
    • Producer(s)
    • Karen CASTANHO (Biônica Filmes), Bianca VILLAR (Biônica Filmes), Fernando FRAIHA (Biônica Filmes)
    • Synopsis
    • Suellen, a Brazilian toll booth attendant and mother, falls in with a gang of thieves in an attempt to keep her family afloat. In doing so, she realizes she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally for a so-called noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest.