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MOUNIR

By Juliana BORGES

Documentary - Post-Production 2024

For Mounir, telling stories is a survival strategy. A Central African refugee, vain, charismatic, his biography seems like fiction, he wants to make a film about himself. In Brazil, he meets a filmmaker who decides to help him. A decade later, the film will be finished. Will it be the film he wants?

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Documentary, Biography, First film
- Countries
- BRAZIL
- Languages
- BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE, ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Juliana BORGES
- Cast
- Mounir ISMAEL, Juliana BORGES
- Producer(s)
- Renata ALVAREZ (PINK FLAMINGO FILMES), Fernando NOGUEIRA (LOMA Filmes)
- Synopsis
- Mounir, a Central African refugee who arrived in Brazil hiding on a cargo ship, wants to make a film about himself. Vanity, charismatic, and with a biography that seems like fiction, telling stories is a survival strategy for him. In São Paulo, Mounir meets a filmmaker who decides to help him. A decade after filming across three continents, Mounir`s film is finally about to be completed. But will it be the film he desires?