Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival

Minha Mãe é uma Vaca - My mother is a cow

  • Director: Moara Passoni
  • Country Brazil/USA
  • Duration: 15'
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Institute: Columbia University

Synopsis: Left in her aunt’s care on a family ranch at the edge of the burning Brazilian wetland, 12-year-old Mia is desperate for the touch of her mother’s love. But in this unstable natural world, with the imminent threat of a deadly jaguar haunting the family, love comes in unexpected form.

Profile: Moara Passoni is a Brazilian writer & director. She wrote and directed the feature-length essay film "Extase'' which received critical acclaim and won several international awards. Moara was co-writer of the Academy Award-nominated "The Edge of Democracy". She was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Filmmaking” by Filmmaker Magazine, is an alumna of TorinoScriptLab, La Fémis-Cannes Producing Atelier, Gotham Week and NYSCA. She is developing her feature debut Cost of Living (Torino Script Lab, Berlinale Talents Market), and her TV series Strikers.