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LET IT ROLL

BOCHA

By Caru ALVES DE SOUZA

Drama - Development 2024

LET IT ROLL is a comedy drama that follows the lives of three young women, who feel overwhelmed by unemployment, boredom and failure and decide to take part in a bocce competition as a way of raising money and overcoming personal dramas.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Drama, Female director, Comedy
- Countries
- BRAZIL
- Languages
- BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Director(s)
- Caru ALVES DE SOUZA
- Writer(s)
- Josefina TROTTA
- Producer(s)
- Rafaella COSTA (MANJERICÃO FILMES)
- Synopsis
- LET IT ROLL is a dramedy that follows an unemployed widow, a precariously employed lesbian and a Korean immigrant who participate in a Bocce tournament (ball sport related to French pétanque and Italian and British bowls) in order to raise money and escape their personal dramas.
  
  ÁUREA (45), YUN (21) and BRUNA (32) try to survive the largest ever unemployment crisis that has created multiple forms of precarious employment and generalised insecurity amongst the Brazilian working-classes. Playing Bocce becomes the perfect pastime in order to get around life’s problems. And they don’t care that Bocce is considered an old-fashioned game for the elderly. For them, Bocce is all that’s left.
  
  However, the distraction gains more serious proportions when they find out that the club has enrolled them in a competition. This is not because they are good athletes but because the new regulations require that at least one of the teams in the competition is all-female. Despite their laziness and lack of ambition, they embark on their mission of cashing the prize. That’s when they decide to hire VALÉRIA, an ex-champion, known as the “Messi of Bocce”. Training starts and it helps to keep focused on something other than their traumas and daily life problems.
  
  During the matches, they start to understand their unique abilities as players. They also deal with and share intimate conflicts: Yun grapples with family and cultural conventions that she is supposed to conform to; Áurea suffers repeated rejections as a job candidate; Bruna loses her room in a friend’s flat as she struggles with her parents ongoing rejection after she came out as a lesbian. When they arrive at the final, they are exhausted and overwhelmed. Although they receive the runner-up trophy and an invitation to take part in a Pan-American Bocce Tournament abroad, they are also aware that this won’t be the end of their financial and personal worries.
  
  Life goes on.