NOVA DUBAI

In a neighborhood of a city in Brazil, real estate speculation has become a threat to the affective memory of a group of friends. The only answer to the imminent transformations is sex: outdoors, in playgrounds, quarries, empty apartments, in all the places that will disappear or be transformed, but will always belong to those who live there. And love? Is love, too, a work in progress?

“Nova Dubai is a movie that is very near to me and my reality. I’m a resident of the neighborhood Jardim Alvorada, in São José dos Campos, but after four years abroad I found a completely different landscape compared to that of my youth. The area’s fairly simple architecture was beginning to be surrounded by enormous residential and commercial buildings; it was being invaded by that so-called modernity which had already appeared in the adjacent neighborhood, Aquarius. When I met up with my old friends from São José, all of us had a very clear feeling: a sense of loss.”

regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Gustavo Vinagre
fotografia/cinematography
Matheus Rocha
montaggio/film editing
Rodrigo Carneiro
scenografia, costumi/production design, costume design
Fernando Zuccolotto
musica, suono/music, sound
Jonathan Macías
interpreti/cast
Gustavo Vinagre, Bruno D’ugo, Hugo Guimarães, Fernando Maia, Herman Barck, Caetano Gotardo, Daniel Prates