SYNOPSIS
Andre is a young boy that lives in an industrial neighborhood in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, near an old aluminum factory. Once a week, his aunt Márcia, a voluntary nurse at the community hospital, visits him and his younger brother to help them with the domestic tasks, while their mother is away. One day, one of the factory workers, Cristiano, a foreigner with a turbulent background in the neighborhood, suffers an accident at the factory. Márcia gives him first aid right in front of the factory, and asks André to go to Cristiano's house to get his documents and some clothes. When André arrives there, he finds by chance a mysterious notebook, which he starts to read. André discovers that Cristiano started writing this notebook for the factory's theatre group, where these workers were asked to write down something about their lives. But Cristiano couldn’t stop writing. As a fairy tale, the film divides itself, and plunges into Cristiano's life. And what we see and listen from this point on is the epic story of the latter’s life - a worker's life whose happiness and sufferings reveal from another point of view the story of Brazilian social and economic development in the last ten years.
Awards
Special Mention | Buenos Aires IFF, Argentina, 2017
Grand Prize City of Lisbon, Honorable Mention | IndiLisboa IFF, , 2017
CAST & CREW

Affonso Uchôa
Director
Producer(s)
Vitor Graize
Script
Affonso Uchôa, João Dumans
Director of Photography
Leonardo Feliciano
Production designer
Priscila Amoni, Janaína Macruz
Music by
Francisco Cesar, Christopher Mack
Sound
Gustavo Fiorante
Edit
Luiz Pretti, Rodrigo Lima
Cast
Aristides de Sousa, Murilo Caliai, Glaucia Vandeveld, Renata Cabral, Renato Novaes, Wederson Neguinho, Adriano Araújo, Renan Rovida
Affonso Uchôa
Affonso Uchôa is a filmmaker based in Contagem, Brasil. He wrote and directed the feature Afternoon Woman (2010), shown in Mostra de Tiradentes, Semana dos Realizadores and CineEsquemaNovo. In 2014, he directed The Hidden Tiger. The film has been considered by many critics one of the most important brazilian films of the year, receiving the award for Best Picture in the Mostra de Tiradentes; the film was also awarded in festivals like Semana dos Realizadores, Cachoeira.doc, Olhar de Cinema, Mostra de Cinema e Direitos Humanos and it was internationally exhibited for the first time at the Hamburg FF, 2015. He also directed the short Desígnio (2009), exhibited in numerous Brazilian film festivals.
Filmography
Afternoon Woman (2010), The Hidden Tiger (2014), Desígnio (2009), Arábia (2017, Co-dir.).(Producer) - Professionals (2008) - Endless Dreams (2009) - Hush! Girls Don't Scream (2013)

João Dumans
Director
João Dumans
João Dumans is a screenwriter and director based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He wrote the feature film Where I grow old, directed by Marília Rocha that premiered internationally at the Rotterdam IFF, in the Tiger Competition Award, 2016. He co-wrote, co-edited and worked as an assistant director of the feature The Hidden Tiger, directed by Affonso Uchoa, that premiered at the Hamburg FF, 2015. He also worked as an executive producer and assistant director of The Residents, directed by Tiago Mata Machado, that premiered at the 61st Berlinale and was shown, among other festivals, at the Viennale (Austria), New Horizons (Poland) and Indielisboa (Portugal), in 2011. He also directed the medium-length documentary Everybody Has His Own Way (2014).
Filmography
The Hidden Tiger (2014), Everybody Has His Own Way (2014), Arábia (2017, Co-dir.)