Caru Alves de Souza

Caru Alves de Souza

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TFI Latin America Fund 2017

About

Caru Alves de Souza is a director and screenwriter. Her debut film, Underage (2014), premiered at San Sebastian IFF and was awarded as Best Film at Rio IFF. Her awarded short Family Affair (2011) premiered at Frameline - San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival and was distributed in various platforms worldwide.

Baghdad - Scenes from a Neighborhood

Baghdad - Scenes from a Neighborhood

Baghdad, a 16-year-old tomboy skater girl, is starting to discover her sexuality as she balances her world of her mostly male skater friends and the strong women who surround her at home in a working class neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil.