DON'T CALL ME SON

(MÃE SÓ HÁ UMA)

Brazil | Drama | 2016 | 82' | language: Portuguese

A bike, high school, joints, girls, a rock band. Pierre is a middle class teenager like many others. One day the police knock at his door and his life turns upside down: After a forced DNA test, the woman he thought was his mother is arrested. Pierre is forced to have a new family, to change his address, school, and even his name. In his new identity, he is called Felipe. And that is the moment when his most intimate and hidden secrets will come out, as painful as it may be…

Directed by Anna Muylaert

Cast: Naomi Nero, Daniel Botelho, Daniela Nefussi, Matheus Nachtergale

Produced by: Dezenove Som e Imagens, Africa Filmes

”An enlightening look at tangled family ties.

Energetic and Poignant”