Don't Call Me Son (2016)

Original title

Mãe Só Há Uma

Directed by

Anna Muylaert

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 75 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenager discovers that the woman he thought was his mother actually kidnapped him as a baby. He is then forced to navigate a new identity and family while grappling with the fallout.

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What happens

Don't Call Me Son (Portuguese: Mãe só há uma) is a 2016 Brazilian drama film directed by Anna Muylaert. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. where it won a Jury Prize at the Teddy Awards for LGBT-related films at the festival. It was also thrice nominated for the 2017 Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro. The film stars Naomi Nero as Felipe/Pierre, a teenager whose life and sense of self is turned upside down when he learns that the woman who raised him is not his real mother, having instead stolen him from a hospital shortly after he was born. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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