by Federico Mutti
Fiction | Brasil-Italy | 2006 | 20 min.
In the favela of a village in Bahia an eleven-year-old boy steals a black cock consecrated to the rituals of Candomblé. Soon rumors will spread about a curse that will punish the wicked burglar, who is deeply saddened by the clamor created by this event and pushed to look for a solution to get rid of a curse which is, maybe, just his own remorse.
Federico Mutti (1979) is Italian-Brazilian and lives in Bologna and Rome. From 2000 to 2001 he worked for a local newspaper as a photographer and took part – as a video maker – in the documentary about the G8 summit in Genova, produced by Indymedia. Then he works as a production assistant in tv serials, commercials, music videos, short films, documentaries and several feature films, like “Natale in India” by Neri Parenti, “Lavorare con lentezza” by Guido Chiesa and “Quo vadis baby” by Gabriele Salvatores.
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