Gabriel and the Mountain

Gabriel e a montanha

58th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Gabriel decides to depart for a long trip before he starts his PhD in a prestigious American university. Travelling light, only with a backpack and a suitcase full of dreams, he arrives in Kenya, where he will try to live like a local, and not as a white tourist... A letter to an old classmate, a film dedicated to a real character from the director’s school years, a documentary with many fiction elements (or vice versa) takes us on a trip to the heart of travelling: a man’s confrontation with freedom.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa

Script: Fellipe Barbosa, Lucas Paraizo, Kirill Mikhanovsky

Cinematography: Pedro Sotero

Editing: Théo Lichtenberger

Sound: Pedro Sá Earp, Waldir Xavier

Music: Arthur B. Gillette

Actors: João Pedro Zappa, Caroline Abras, Alex Alembe, Lenny Siampala

Production: TV Zero, Damned Films

Producers: Rodrigo Letier, Roberto Berliner, Clara Linhart, Yohann Cornu

Co-production: Arte France Cinema, Canal Brasil

Art Direction: Ana Paula Cardoso

Executive producer: Mauro Pizzo

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Brazil, France

Production Year: 2017

Duration: 130'

Contact: FIlms Boutique

Awards/Distinctions: Visionary Award, Gan Foundation Award – Semaine de la Critique, Cannes Film Festival 2017

Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa directed the short films La Muerte es pequeña and Salt Kiss, selected at NYFF, Clermont-Ferrand, Guadalajara and Sundance. In 2008, he developed the screenplay of Casa Grande at the Sundance labs; the film premiered at Rotterdam’s competition in 2014. Gabriel and the Mountain is his second fiction feature.