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SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN

DORMIR DE OLHOS ABERTOS

By Nele WOHLATZ

FILMGARTEN - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, AUSTRIA

Second film - Completed 2024

Berlinale - EFM 2024

Encounters

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Second film, Drama
- Countries
- ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, TAIWAN, GERMANY
- Languages
- MANDARIN, BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE, SPANISH, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 97 mn
- Director(s)
- Nele WOHLATZ
- Cast
- Nahuel PÉREZ BISCAYART,
- Producer(s)
- Violeta BAVA (RUDA CINE), Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO (Cinemascópio), Meike MARTENS (Blinker Filmproduktion)
- Synopsis
- A coastal city in Brazil. Kai arrives on holiday from Taiwan with a broken heart. A malfunctioning air conditioner leads her to end up in Fu Ang’s umbrella shop. He could become a friend, but then the rainy season fails to arrive and the shop closes. While searching for Fu Ang, Kai comes across Xiao Xin and a group of Chinese workers in a fancy high-rise building. Kai finds herself strangely mirrored in Xiao Xin’s story.
  This quiet comedy of misunderstandings does not follow a traditional dramaturgy. The protagonists, performed by an ensemble of first-time actors and professionals, come and go unexpectedly. From one unknown city to the next, they follow the demands of their work. But over the course of a hot, slow summer, delicate bonds grow between them like islands in a sea full of sharks.