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My Name is Baghdad

Country: Brazil, Language: Portuguese, 96 mins

Original Title

Meu nome é Bagdá
  • Director: Caru Alves de Souza
  • Writer: Caru Alves de Souza; Josefina Trotta
  • Producer: Caru Alves De Souza; Rafaella Costa

CGiii Comment

“You guys are awful. You don't even know the girl and the first thing you say is: ‘She's fucking hot.’ She's probably doing a whole lot of cool things you don't even know.”

Rolling through São Paulo on her skateboard, Baghdad wears her hair short, her trousers pulled up high, and her sweater tucked into the waistband. Baghdad is cool; she is a girl who respects whom she wants to respect – everyone else might find wet clumps of toilet paper hurled their way. She lives in a house of strong-willed, emancipated women and spends her days at the skatepark with a group of guys who like to hang around shirtless, playing cards and plucking their chest hair.

Just like her protagonist, the director glides and swivels through the film with free, easy confidence and swaggering originality, not shying away from darker issues like violence, sexism and discrimination – yet also celebrating solidarity and resistance.


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Cast & Characters

Grace Orsato as Baghdad
Karina Buhr as Micheline
Marie Maymone as Joseane
Helena Luz as Bia
Gilda Nomacce as Gladys
Paulette Pink as Gilda
Emílio Serrano as Emílio
William Costa as Deco
João Paulo Bienemann as Clever
Nick Batist as Vanessa