KILL ME PLEASE
Filmfest 2016
(MATE-ME POR FAVOR)
Argentina, Brazil 2015
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: Portuguese)
German Premiere
Director: Anita Rocha da Silveira
Section: CineVision Competition
A different kind of coming-of-age story: Bia and her brother João live in Rio de Janeiro‘s well-to-do suburb Barra da Tijuca, when a series of murders of young women spreads panic. In the throes of puberty, Bia is fascinated by the killings, and by her first experiences with sex and death… The debut of Anita Rocha da Silveira evokes David Lynch or Brian de Palma, while striking her own morbid, scintillating tone.
Cast: Valentina Herszage, Mari Oliveira, Júlia Roliz, Dora Freind
Credits
Screenplay: Anita Rocha da Silveira
Director of Photography: João Atala
Film Editor: Marília Moraes
Composer: Bernardo Uzeda
Production Designer: Renato Pimentel
Costume Design: Ana Carolina Lopes
Sound: Bernardo Uzeda
Producer: Vania Catani
Co-Producer: Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli
Production Company: Bananeira Filmes
Co-Production Company: Rei Cine S.R.L.
World Sales: MPM Film
Director: Anita Rocha da Silveira
biography
Anita Rocha da Silveira studied film at the Papal Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro. She wrote, directed and edited three shorts THE NOON VAMPIRE (2008), HANDBALL (2010) and THE LIVING DEAD (2012). HANDBALL won a FIPRESCI Award at the 57th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen. THE LIVING DEAD screened at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes 2012. She works as Assistant Director and Screenwriter. KILL ME PLEASE is her debut feature.
