BULLYING | COMING OF AGE, CULTURE, MIGRATION, SLICE OF LIFE
On the day of the World Cup final between Brazil and France, Erika Oguihara, a Japanese-Brazilian teenager who rejects her family traditions, experiences a violence that seems invisible and plunges into a painful sea of emotions.
André Hayato Saito is a Japanese-Brazilian screenwriter and director. Directing films for 21 years, he’s also a partner at the 2x Emmy award winner production company MyMama Entertainment. Since 2019, Saito has been working on a short film trilogy that embraces his Japanese-Brazilian roots and portrays themes like identity, cycles of life and death, and ancestrality.