Open Veins

The social project of a teacher faces failure as the pupils' priorities are love affairs and work. Their days are devoted to desire and Brazilian funk, seeking an utopic independence, while reality creeps up on them.

Cast

Lucas Nascimento

Alexandre Amador

Flaviane Damasceno

Isabel Figueira

Tomás Braune

Gabriel Henrique Guedes

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