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Dutch Crimes

Dutch Crimes

A sunny noir in the Recife mangrove

2023 · 20 min · Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Cora, a young language teacher, faces problems with one of her students and decides to take a sleeping pill. When she wakes up at the next morning, she notices her house is overturned, her bicycle is missing and a body was found in the Capibaribe River, in front of her house. She now finds herself between reality and fantasy, in a dilemma about her relationship with the crime.

Directed by Maria Clara Almeida

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