DEVIL’S GUITAR

Brazil, 2K, 99 minutes, 2024
Directed by Guilherme Bacalhao
A 400 Filmes and Olho de Gato Filmes production

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* Sponsored by the Federal District Culture Support Fund and by the Audiovisual Sector Fund (Brazil)
* Selected to 20 film festivals in Brazil and abroad, such as: 46th Moscow International Film Festival (Russia, 2024), 20th Monterrey International Film Festival (Mexico, 2024), 57th Brasilia Film Festival (2024), ⁠20th Rengo International Film Festival (Chile, 2024), 18th Cine del Mar International Film Festival (Punta del Este, Uruguay, 2025) and 10th The Romford Film Festival (Great Britain, 2025)
* Best Actor award, 57th Brasilia Film Festival (2024)
* Best First Film, 11th Guayaquil International Film Festival (Ecuador, 2025)
* Best Latin American Feature Film award, Cordillera De Los Andes International Film Festival (Ecuador, 2025)
* Best Feature Film Award, Sevilla Indie Film Festival (Spain)
* Best New Director Award, Cine Paris Film Festival (France)
* Commercial release in Brazil on August 7th 2025

SYNOPSIS

Alex is an unsuccessful country musician. He returns to his hometown in the heart of the Brazilian midlands, a village threatened by industrial agriculture that consumes original forests and challenges settler’s traditional ways of life. He dreams of being a skilled musician like his father Lazaro, a sick guitar player in debt with the saints, who must perform a series of religious rituals. However, local rumours say his debts are not with the saints, but with the devil. To save his father and himself, Alex journeys into local practices and beliefs.