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THE PORTRAIT OF SARAH

O RETRATO DE SARAH

By Leonardo COSTA

A7 FILMES - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2025

After seeing her art being treated with indifference, the young artist Sarah begins to transform people into art using their blood to paint her pictures.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Drama, Horror
- Countries
- BRAZIL
- Languages
- BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Leonardo COSTA
- Writer(s)
- Leonardo COSTA
- Cast
- Mafê CREPALDI, Pedro BOSNICH, André RAMIRO, Elisa TELLES, Jj ERENBERG, Warde MARX, Luciana STIPP, Gustavo CANOVAS
- Producer(s)
- Leonardo COSTA (A7 Filmes), Mafê CREPALDI (A7 Filmes)
- Synopsis
- Sarah Rosso, the daughter of two legendary painters, has spent the last three years in isolation—grieving, observing, and creating. Now 24, she unveils her first painting at a prestigious auction. Haunting and visceral, the work is met with uncomfortable silence. The audience expected a tribute to her parents. What they received was something entirely different.
  
  That night, something in Sarah breaks. After a violent confrontation with her manipulative agent, she paints again, but this time, using his blood. The result reveals a disturbing harmony: raw, true, and alive. For the first time, Sarah feels she has created real art. But she also discovers her rage has a voice, and her paintings can speak.
  
  As Sarah begins to carefully select her next “patrons,” her violent process becomes a ritual of liberation. One by one, collectors and critics are turned into pigment, their lives quite literally consumed by the works they once sought to own. Her canvases multiply. Her legend grows. And soon, whispers of a cursed collection ripple through elite circles.
  
  In the shadows of this descent, she prepares her ultimate act: a private exhibition titled The Portrait of Sarah. But this time, there will be no critics, no curators, no collectors - only those willing to face what art becomes when it stops seeking approval and begins demanding submission. In the final moments, as blood and canvas merge one last time, Sarah’s body disappears into her masterpiece.
  
  She doesn't just create art. She becomes it.