Sei sempre stata tu

Amid relentless storms, eighteen-year-old Arthur dreams of leaving home. But in this isolated world, leaving is almost like disappearing.

Davi, a ten-year-old boy, shares a deeply affectionate relationship with his mother, Rosa. When Rosa experiences a schizophrenic episode, the dynamic between them is reversed: Davi assumes a caregiving role that no child should have to occupy. Set against the backdrop of a house move in Nilópolis, in Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense, the film follows the small gestures of survival, tenderness, and exhaustion that shape their bond after his mother’s episode. My Mother’s Father is an intimate drama about love, premature maturity, and everyday resilience, approaching mental health not through the lens of diagnosis, but through the territory of affection. A quiet portrait of a childhood marked by pain, but also by the possibility of carrying on.

After tragically losing Mathis in a fire, Elise, a grief-stricken mother suffering from dementia, becomes convinced that his spirit lives on. She begins having poignant conversations with the flame of a candle. Caught between reality and fantasy, Elise struggles to come to terms with her loss as she retreats further into memories of happier times.

Ten-year-old Sam sees his father Richard reappear after a long absence. The reassuring world she shared with her mother and stepfather is shaken. Richard, with his excesses and vulnerabilities, disrupts her sense of security. In this tender chaos, will Sam be able to keep her light alive?