São Paulo is a gunpowder keg about to explode. Amid the city turmoil a journalist, a former car thief and a mysterious woman live an intense love triangle. The clash of their desires and the friction between the opposite sides of the city foreshadows the urge of radical changes.
RIVERRUN (Riocorrente) is the second feature film by Paulo Sacramento, and the first narrative one, ten years after his debut — the awarded documentary The Prisoner of the Iron Bars (Self-Portraits).
The plot examines a disintegrating love triangle between Carlos, Renata and Marcelo.
In parallel to the dilemmas of these three characters, a child develops along a rude, intense and silent walk.
The film takes place in the contemporary Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo. The characters’ subjectivity, the mystery of their individual searches and feelings are set against what they see and desire, and narrated in an unconventional manner, as important as their actions.
The film premiered in Brazil in 2013 at the 46th Brasília Film Festival, where it won the Best Cinematography (to Aloysio Raulino) and Best Editing (to Idê Lacreta and Paulo Sacramento) awards. It was also in competition at the 37th São Paulo International Film Festival, where it received the Best Brazilian Feature Film Award, chosen by the Brazilian Film Critics Association (Abraccine).
The film premiered internationally in January of 2014, as part of the Tiger Awards Competition at the prestigious Rotterdam International Film Festival.