Ricardo Carioba

An old man stuck in a wheelchair has a red ball for only distraction. He throws it harder and harder, higher and higher, until it finally slips from his hand, hitting the floor and unleashing the hell…

A film about one of the great names in Brazilian literature: Ignácio de Loyola Brandão—writer, journalist, cinephile, keen observer of reality, and dreamer. Subverting roles, the documentary turns the storyteller into the protagonist of a narrative that intertwines the many men existing within a single person.

An old man stuck in a wheelchair has a red ball for only distraction. He throws it harder and harder, higher and higher, until it finally slips from his hand, hitting the floor and unleashing the hell…

A film about one of the great names in Brazilian literature: Ignácio de Loyola Brandão—writer, journalist, cinephile, keen observer of reality, and dreamer. Subverting roles, the documentary turns the storyteller into the protagonist of a narrative that intertwines the many men existing within a single person.