Brazil / France 2022, 98 min, English, French and Portuguese, Hebrew & English subtitles

Miúcha had a lovely voice, heaps of musical talent, and a remarkable zest for life, yet she remained in the shadows while the men in her life—her brother (Chico Buarque), husband (João Gilberto), and musical partner (Antônio Carlos Jobim)—took center stage. When the Bossa Nova scene rose to popularity, Miúcha composed, sang, recorded, and performed all over the world alongside these giants of Brazillian music, but when she got married and had a child, she was gradually pushed into obscurity. “I thought I didn’t deserve this,” she said, “not to have this fairytale come true for me.” Five years after her death, her nephew, filmmaker Daniel Zarvos, used beautiful and emotionally stirring hidden treasures from the family archive to tell Miúcha’s riveting life story, bringing her back into the limelight, where she belongs.

Previous Festivals: TIFF, Telluride, IDFA, CPH:DOX, In-Edit Music Documentary Film Festival, FIPA

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Born in Salvador, Brazil, Liliane Mutti holds a Masters in Gender Studies from the University Paris 8 and she is the founder of the Ciné Nova Bossa Association in Paris. She produces and directs films with strong political engagement like Ecocide, Elle, Ta Clarice, Instant-ci, and Out of Breath.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Daniel Zarvos is a filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist. After studying film at Bard College, he worked on numerous avant-garde film projects, as well as the feature-length documentaries Raízes do Brazil with Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Oscar Niemeyer

Production: Marta Sanchez, Mostafiz ShaMohammed
Production Company: Filmz
Script & Cinematography: Liliane Mutti
Editing: Isabel Castro, Daniela Ramalho
Sound Design: Rodrigo Sacic, Pierre-Yves Gauthier
Music: Ruben Jacobina

Source: The Festival Agency

Supporters & Broadcasters: Embassy of Brazil in Israel

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