As vitrines
Brasil, 2025.
Directed by: Flávia Castro .
Flavia Castro was born in Brazil but grew up in exile. Her work oscillates between documentary and fiction in a continuous effort to "construct memories." She wrote and directed the award-winning "Diário de uma busca" (2011) and "Deslembro" (2018), the latter debuting at the Venice Film Festival. With "As Vitrines," she completes an unplanned trilogy merging her personal history with the collective experience of Latin American dictatorships and exile.
Cast: Ema Castro Pérez, Helena O’Donnell, Letícia Colin, Gael Nórdio.
Running time: 110 min.
Synopsis
Chile, 1973. In the wake of Pinochet’s coup, hundreds of militants seek asylum in the Argentine embassy. For children Pedro and Ana, this forced confinement becomes a temporal parenthesis—a rare, stolen freedom amidst the violent fracturing of their world. The script eschews didacticism, focusing instead on the intimate reinventing of "family" through communal survival and shared rituals.
Chile, 1973. In the wake of Pinochet’s coup, hundreds of militants seek asylum in the Argentine embassy...