My Name is Baghdad
2020 · Movie · 96 min. · Brazil
Rolling through São Paulo on her skateboard, Baghdad wears her hair short, her trousers pulled up high, and her sweater tucked into the waistband. Baghdad is cool; she is a girl who only respects whom she wants to respect. She lives in a house of strong-willed, emancipated women and spends her days at the skatepark with a group of guys who like to hang around shirtless, playing cards and plucking their chest hair. Just like her protagonist, the director glides and swivels through the film with free, easy confidence and swaggering originality, not shying away from darker issues like violence, sexism and discrimination – yet also celebrating solidarity and resistance.
Direction Caru Alves de Souza
Cast Grace Orsato · Karina Buhr · Marie Maymone · Helena Luz · Gilda Nomacce · Paulette Pink · Emilio Serrano · William Costa · João Paulo Bienermann · Nick Batista
Screenplay Caru Alves de Souza · Josefina Trotta
Cinematography Camila Cornelsen
Original title Meu Nome é Bagdá
6.6
171 votes (FilmAffinity)
Add to lists
Share