FAR FROM PARADISE

LONGE DO PARAISO

By Orlando SENNA

HABANERO - as SALES All rights, World

Crime - Completed 2020

Kim is a hitman who commits a serious mistake and is about to be executed by the criminal organization he works for. His only chance to escape punishment is to assassinate the peasant leader Bel. She is his sister and the only person in the world that he truly loves.

Festivals
& Awards

XV Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema 2019
Official Selection
Havana Film Festival 2019
Festival de Brasília de Cinema Brasileiro 2020
Main Competition. Audience Award
Ventana Sur 2021
Festival Internacional de Cine de San Juan 2021
Official Selection
Festival do Rio 2021
Premiere Brasil
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Crime, Thriller, Drama
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 103 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Orlando SENNA
    • Writer(s)
    • Orlando SENNA
    • Producer(s)
    • Solange SOUZA LIMA (ARACA FILMES)
    • Synopsis
    • Shot in beautiful scenarios of Chapada Diamantina in the Northeastern state of Bahia, the film is a present-day adaptation of the biblical myth of Cain and Abel, with Brazil’s agrarian conflicts as a backdrop.

      Kim is a hitman who commits a serious mistake and is about to be executed by the criminal organization he works for. His only chance to escape punishment is to assassinate the peasant leader Bel. She is his sister and the only person in the world that he truly loves.


      PLOT KEYWORDS
      family relations | class relations | land struggles | Brazil | corruption | social & economic justice | rural life | Biblical myths | violence