Landmark of Brazilian LGBTQIAP+ cinema, Daniel Ribeiro’s film preserves the sweetness of discovery

The year was 2014 and the dream of a young Brazilian filmmaker was coming true on screen. As happens in great stories of the seventh art, the achievement of certain objectives is sometimes capable of impacting many people. In a way, that’s exactly what happened after the release of Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho, a film that completed 10 years at the beginning of April.

Although this trajectory in cinema was responsible for the national and international recognition of Daniel Ribeiro and the stars who worked on the work, this story began four years earlier with the popular short film Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho, directed and starring them.

With a synopsis similar to that of the feature film, the record went through some setbacks after a screening at a school in Acre. Confused with the Anti-Homophobia Kit, teaching material from the Ministry of Education that was banned from distribution, the Cine Educação Program project was censored due to religious pressure. Even so, this barrier did not contain the story that was later awarded awards in Brazil and around the world, with highlights at international festivals.

In 2012, through the short’s official account, an announcement confirmed the production of the feature film that was supposed to expand this story. Previously called All the most simple thingsHoje Eu Quero Voltar Alone hit theaters two years later – and was responsible for changing the lives of countless LGBTQIAP+ people in many ways.

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