Puisque Nous Sommes Nés (2008)

Name: Puisque Nous Sommes Nés
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-06-01T22:17:13+02:00
Rating: 3
Cast: Cocada Joselito da Silva, Nego Jailson Ferreira, Zé Cocada Aristides da Silva

Documentary | 90 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 90 minuten

Country: France / Brazil

Directed by: Jean-Pierre Duret and Andrea Santana

Stars: Cocada Joselito da Silva, Nego Jailson Ferreira, Zé Cocada Aristides da Silva

IMDb score: 7,3 (91)

Releasedate: 4 February 2009

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Puisque Nous Sommes Nés plot

Two penniless boys in Brazil are followed: Cocada, 13, who sleeps in an old truck after the murder of his father, and 14-year-old Nego, who lives in a slum with his (half) siblings. They hang out at a large gas station on a main road and earn some extra money with odd jobs. They rustle and take advantage of the goodness or negligence of the passers-by. Both have dreams of a world elsewhere that, thanks to a good-hearted truck driver and a religious fanatic, might just come true. The two boys philosophize about their future at the gas station, which for both of them is the symbol for 'elsewhere'.