''Futuro Beach'' () is a 2014
drama
Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...
film co-written and directed by
Karim Aïnouz
Karim Aïnouz (; ; born 17 January 1966) is a Brazilian film director and visual artist. He is best known for his film '' The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão.''
Career
Karim Aïnouz was born to a Brazilian mother and an Algerian father, in ...
, and starring
Wagner Moura
Wagner Maniçoba de Moura (; born 27 June 1976) is a Brazilian actor, voice-actor and filmmaker. His accolades include the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''The Secret Agent'' (2025), as well as a Golden Globe n ...
,
Clemens Schick and
Jesuíta Barbosa
José Jesuíta Barbosa Neto (; born 26 June 1991) is a Brazilian actor. He is considered an important talent of recent Brazilian cinema and has performed in critically acclaimed feature films.
Biography
Jesuíta was born in Salgueiro and spen ...
. Shot in
Fortaleza
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and
Berlin
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, the film had its world premiere in the competition section of the
64th Berlin International Film Festival
The 64th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 6 to 16 February 2014. Wes Anderson's film ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' opened the festival.
British film director Ken Loach was presented with the Golden Bear#Golden Bear .E2.80. ...
.
Plot
When Donato, a lifeguard at
Praia do Futuro, fails to rescue a drowning German tourist, he feels the tourist's death was his fault and begins a journey to escape from his present self. Donato leaves for Berlin in search of his German lover, Konrad, whom he had met ten years earlier at Praia do Futuro and saved from drowning. Whenever he drifts away, his younger brother, Ayrton, brings him back.
Cast
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Wagner Moura
Wagner Maniçoba de Moura (; born 27 June 1976) is a Brazilian actor, voice-actor and filmmaker. His accolades include the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''The Secret Agent'' (2025), as well as a Golden Globe n ...
as Donato
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Clemens Schick as Konrad
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Jesuíta Barbosa
José Jesuíta Barbosa Neto (; born 26 June 1991) is a Brazilian actor. He is considered an important talent of recent Brazilian cinema and has performed in critically acclaimed feature films.
Biography
Jesuíta was born in Salgueiro and spen ...
as Ayrton
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Sabine Timoteo
Sabine Timoteo (born 25 March 1975) is a Swiss actress from the Lorraine district of Solothurn. She has appeared in more than thirty films since 2000.
Early life
Timoteo grew up dividing time between the United States and Lausanne, Switzerland ...
as Heiko's wife
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Ingo Naujoks as Mechanic
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Emily Cox as Nanna
* Natascha Paulick as bartender
* Christoph Zrenner as school janitor
* Sophie Charlotte Conrad as Dakota
* Yannik Burwiek as Heiko's son
References
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2014 films
2014 drama films
2014 LGBTQ-related films
2014 multilingual films
2010s German films
2010s German-language films
2010s Portuguese-language films
Best Picture APCA Award winners
Brazilian drama films
Brazilian LGBTQ-related films
Brazilian multilingual films
Films set in Berlin
Films set in Fortaleza
Films shot in Berlin
Films shot in Fortaleza
Films scored by Hauschka
Films directed by Karim Aïnouz
Gay-related films
German drama films
German LGBTQ-related films
German multilingual films
2010s LGBTQ-related drama films
2010s Brazilian films
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