Brazil’s official submission to the International Feature category at the
94th Academy Awards was director Aly Muritiba's Private Desert.
The film stars Antonio Saboia as Daniel, a police instructor in an online
relationship with Sara (Pedro Fasanaro), who lives as a male during the day and a female
at night. When Sara suddenly disappears, Daniel crosses the country hoping
to find her.
Private Desert is released in New York on August 26th. A
UK/ROI release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Private Desert centers Sara and Daniel who, although in a long-distance relationship, comfort one another from within their own, very different life circumstances. Sara is a genderfluid blue-collar worker who lives as her male birth identity Robson by day and her femme identity, Sara, by night, while caring for her religious grandmother in Sobradinho, a small town in the rural northeast of the country. Daniel, who teaches in a police academy in the southern metropolis of Curitiba, has been placed on unpaid leave after a violent incident occurs that’s all over the news.
The only thing holding him together is his online romance with Sara, whom he has never met in person. When she suddenly disappears, Daniel drives 2,000 miles across Brazil to find her. He posts Sara’s picture all over town but no one recognizes her, until he receives a mysterious call from someone claiming to know her and asking to meet. What follows is a journey of the heart that will change Sara and Daniel forever.
