THE BLUE TRAIL
Special Features: Special Presentation | U.S. Premiere
[O ÚLTIMO AZUL]
After a life spent working hard in an alligator processing plant, Tereza (Denise Weinberg) is forced to retire at the ripe age of 77. She is feted as a “national living heritage” before reluctantly being placed under the guardianship of her daughter. To salvage productivity, the Brazilian government is going to send her off to a senior living colony. But Tereza is not quite ready to be put out to pasture. She still has dreams of riding in an airplane, a luxury she has never been afforded. Unable to book a flight without her daughter’s permission, she sets off on a journey through the Amazon to find a clandestine airfield. Along the way, she relies on the kindness of strangers to reach her goal, including a rough-and-tumble riverboat captain (Rodrigo Santoro, LOVE ACTUALLY, 300) with a propensity for tripping on psychedelic snail drool that can reveal the future. Visionary filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro’s (NEON BULL, DIVINE LOVE) rollicking coming-of-old-age tale, set in a dystopian near-future, is a sensuously told delight and deservedly won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival. –Josh Gardner
Best Feature, Ibero-America Competition, 2025 Guadalajara International Film Festival. DIR/SCR Gabriel Mascaro; SCR Tibério Azul; PROD Rachel Daisy Ellis, Sandino Saravia Vinay. Brazil/Mexico/Netherlands/Chile, 2025, color, 85 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Run Time: 85 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025
Genre: Science Fiction
