Painless
France, Brazil
Synopsis
A French couple buys an abandoned house on a paradisiac island in Brazil. To their surprise, upon arriving on the land they acquired, they find a small fishing village inhabited by descendants of an old German colony; strange scars on the villager’s bodies hide a secret kept for decades. They don’t feel any pain. A class struggle over land and borders is established raising questions about the limits of pain in a social horror thriller.
Filming : 2022
Language : French, Portuguese, German
Length : 120′
Format : HD
Screenwriters : Michael Wahrman, Guillaume Nicloux
In collaboration with : Alejandro Fadel, Diego Lerer, Gabriela Amaral Almeida
Production : KinoElektron, Sancho&Punta (Brazil), Twenty Twenty Vision (Germany)