20TH edition NOVEMBER 24 TO DECEMBER 2, 2023
20th edition
November 24 to December 2, 2023
Carolina Markowicz has written and directed six short films, which have been selected for more than three hundred festivals and have received numerous awards. The Orphan (2018), her best-recognised work, had its premiere in the Director’s Fortnight of the Festival de Cannes, where it won the Queer Palm. Since 2021, Markowicz has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her debut feature, Charcoal (2022), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to play at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Toll (2023) is her second feature film.
Suellen, a Brazilian toll-booth attendant, falls in with a gang of thieves in an attempt to keep her family afloat. In doing so, she realises she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally for a so-called noble cause: to send her son to expensive conversion therapy led by a renowned foreign priest.
Director Carolina Markowicz
Producer Bianca Villar, Fernando Fraiha, Karen Castanho, Carolina Markowicz
Screenwriter Carolina Markowicz
Cinematographer Luis Armando Arteaga
Art Director Vicente Saldanha
Editor Lautaro Colace, Ricardo Saraiva
Sound André Bellentani, Filipe Derado
Colour Colour
Production Company Biônica Filmes
International Sales Company Luxbox