MY MOTHER IS A COW

Iberoamerican Short Film Contest 53 ED. 2025
Brazil 2024 15' Fiction

Left in her aunt’s care on a family ranch at the edge of the burning Brazilian wetlands, 12-year-old Mia is desperate for her mother’s love. But in this volatile natural world, with the looming threat of a deadly jaguar consuming the family, love comes in an unexpected form.

Moara Passoni

Brazilian writer and director, she wrote and directed the feature-length essay film Extase, which received critical acclaim and won a gamut of international awards. Moara was co-writer of the Academy Award-nominated The Edge of Democracy. She was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Filmmaking” by Filmmaker Magazine. She is developing her narrative feature debut Cost of Living and her TV series Strikers. She’s a founding member of the BrazilianFilmmakerCollective.

TECHNICAL DATA
DIRECTION:

Moara Passoni

SCRIPT:

Moara Passoni, Fernanda Frotté

PRODUCTION:

Uvaia Films

EDITING:

Germano de Oliveira

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Carolina Costa, AMC

COSTUME DESING:

Luciana Moscardini Mugayar

CAST:

Luisa Bastos, Amorosa, Helena Albergaria, Ana Carolina Guztazazky, Claudio Rodrigues da Silva, Andrey Rener Scala Aquino

CONTACT:

lightson@lightsonfilm.org