Casa Grande

Coming-of-age as rude awakening: one high school senior's dawning sexuality is shadowed by the discovery of his upper-class white family's looming financial ruin.

Polished and penetrating, CASA GRANDE renders a sharp social canvas of contemporary Brazil through the eyes of young Jean, who struggles with newfound knowledge of his racial and class privilege as he sweetly courts a mixed-race girl from a lower-ranked school than his, and sows his oats with the family's maid.

Winner of Best Film at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. Nominated for a Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

"Precariously balanced social structures maintaining class, race and expectations come crashing down in Casa grande, Fellipe Barbosa's well-made feature debut." - Jay Weissberg, Variety