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“Sometimes to fit in you need to stand out”
With help from a new friend, a misfit at a fancy private school secretly enrolls at a public school as a foreign exchange student.
Director
Writer
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$6,000,000

At the age of nine, Rebeca is sold by her grandmother to the bookseller who ran Rocinha. Disputed by bicheiros and drug dealers, the community is going through changes in power. Rebeca becomes the wife of the chief drug dealer and, with the death of her partner, his successor. The electrifying trajectory of crime, violence, drugs and love of a female drug kingpin in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s.


Grace Blueburger
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.