
Feature film · 2023
Da Porta Pra Fora
Outside Riders
Documentary feature · 84 min
During the pandemic, three delivery riders risk their lives while Brasília waits behind closed doors.
- Premiered at Gramado
- DocCelerator Copenhagen
Synopsis
In Brazil's capital, during the worst pandemic in living memory, the centre of power collapses. Society waits in lockdown. Outside, the delivery app keeps beeping and three riders risk their lives. Keliane, Marcos and Sorriso are used to danger, but each day they learn that their lives are worth nothing.
Filmed over two years, from 2020 to 2022, across the Federal District. It was the only Latin American project selected for Paradiddle Pictures' DocCelerator in Copenhagen.
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Credits
- Writer and director
- Thiago Foresti
- Executive producer
- Amanda Fernandes and Thiago Foresti
- Producer
- Manuela Costa and Juliana Mendes
- Director of photography
- Attilio Zolin
- Image coordination
- Augusto Dauster
- Editing
- Daniel Sena
- Sound design
- Micael Guimarães
- Original music
- Sascha Kratzer and Rafael Maklon
- Featuring
- Keliane Alves, Marcos de Souza and Alessandro Calado (Sorriso)
Awards
- 5th MOBIFILM, São Paulo, 2023: best film, New Mobility Technologies category
Selections
- Toronto Lift-Off Film Festival, 2023 (international preview)
- Gramado Film Festival, 2023 (Brazilian premiere)
- Mostra Sesc de Cinema, 2023
- DocCelerator, Paradiddle Pictures, Copenhagen, 2020 (lab)
- FRAPA, Porto Alegre, 2020 (meetings with Olhar Distribuição)
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