YONLU

By Hique MONTANARI

PRANA FILMES - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2017


Festivals
& Awards

19th Festival do Rio – Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival 2017 2018
OFFICIAL SELECTION GENERATION
41ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema em São Paulo 2018
Abraccine Award (Brazilian Association of Film Critics) for Best Brazilian Film
9th International Festival of Frontier Cinema 2017 2018
Best Film and Press Award
Madrid Int’l Film Festival 2018 2018
Nominee as Best Lead Actor in a Foreign Language Film and Best Director of Foreign Language Feature Film
46th Gramado Film Festival 2018
3rd Santos FilmFest – Festival de Filmes de Santos 2018
25th FIC Valdivia – Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia 2018
12th Santa Maria Video and Film Festival 2018
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Drama
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Hique MONTANARI
    • Writer(s)
    • Hique MONTANARI
    • Producer(s)
    • Luciana TOMASI (Prana Filmes)
    • Synopsis
    • Inspired by the life of a Brazilian teenager. This movie talks about a very talented boy with beautiful voice. YONLU, who was fluent in four languages, spent hours in front of the computer, chatting and writing songs. One day he found his destiny aided by members of a community dedicated to suicide on the internet.