MOTEL DESTINO
Film - CineCoPro Competition

MOTEL DESTINO

Directed by Karim Aïnouz

Info

Director: Karim Aïnouz
Section: CineCoPro Competition
Country: Brazil, Germany, France
Year: 2024
Language: Portuguese
Version: Original version with English subtitles
Cast: Iago Xavier, Nataly Rocha, Fabio Assunção
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

A feverish erotic thriller about a fateful encounter.

The guests at Motel Destino greatly value their anonymity. That’s very convenient for Heraldo, even though he’s less interested in living out his sexual fantasies than he is in hiding from a crime lord. Elias and his wife, Dayana, who run the Love Motel, give him refuge in exchange for odd jobs — particularly as the young man is very attractive.

Show calendar

Calendar

  • (only P&I)
    HFF Audimax
  • City 1
  • Rio 1
  • City 2

Meet the director

MOTEL DESTINO

Karim Aïnouz

Karim Aïnouz studied architecture in Brasília and film in New York City. His first feature film, MADAME SATÃ, about a drag queen, street fighter, and criminal, was screened at Cannes in 2002. His other films include THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURÍDICE GUSMÃO, which earned the CineCoPro Award at the Munich International Film Festival in 2019, and the historical drama FIREBRAND (2023), which starred Alicia Vikander and Jude Law.

Credits

Screenplay: Wislan Esmeraldo, Maurício Zacharias, Karim Aïnouz
Director of Photography: Hélène Louvart, AFC
Film Editor: Nelly Quettier
Composer: Amine Bouhafa
Production Designer: Marcos Pedroso
Costume Design: Kika Lopez, Ananda Frazão
Sound: Pedrinho Moreira, Moabe Filho
Sound design: Waldir Xavier
Make-up artist: Natie Cortez
Casting director: Nina Kopko
Producer: Janaina Bernardes, Fabiano Gullane, Caio Gullane
Production Company: Cinema Inflamável, Gullane
Executive producer: Mauricio Macêdo, Janaina Bernardes, Daniela Antonelli Aun und andere
Co-Producer: Michael Weber, Viola Fügen
Co-Production Company: Maneki Films, The Match Factory, Globo Filmes/ Telecine/ Canal Brasil
World Sales: The Match Factory
Distributor: Piffl Medien GmbH