Futuro Beach

Praia do Futuro
File:Praia do Futuro Film Poster.jpg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Karim Aïnouz
Written by	Karim Aïnouz Felipe Bragança
Starring	Wagner Moura Clemens Schick Jesuita Barbosa
Music by	Volker Bertelmann
Cinematography	Ali Olay Gözkaya
Edited by	Isabela Monteiro de Castro
Production company	Coração da Selva Hank Levine Film
Distributed by	California Filmes
Release dates	11 February 2014 (2014-02-11) (Berlin) 1 May 2014 (2014-05-01) (Brazil)
Country	Brazil Germany
Language	Portuguese German
Budget	$4 million

Praia do Futuro (English: Futuro Beach) is a 2014 Brazilian-German drama film directed by Karim Aïnouz, and starring Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick and Jesuita Barbosa. The film had its premiere in the competition section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

Plot

In the film, shot in Fortaleza and Berlin, Wagner Moura plays the lifeguard Donato, who works at Praia do Futuro. When a German tourist loses his life in a drowning, Donato feels the loss of the tourist was his fault and begins a journey to escape from his present self. Donato leaves for Berlin in search of his German lover, Konrad, whom he had met ten years earlier at the Praia do Futuro and saved from drowning. Whenever he drifts away, his younger brother, Ayrton (Jesuita Barbosa), brings him back.

Cast

• Wagner Moura as Donato
• Clemens Schick as Konrad
• Jesuita Barbosa as Ayrton
• Sabine Timoteo as Heiko's Wife
• Ingo Naujoks as Mechanic
• Emily Cox as Nanna
• Natascha Paulick as Bartender
• Christoph Zrenner as School Janitor
• Sophie Charlotte Conrad as Dakota
• Yannik Burwiek as Heiko's Son

External links

• Official website
• Praia do Futuro at IMDb