Nurse Pedro has a problem: he desperately needs to find a free bed for his sick girlfriend Daniela. So he helps young Jean to escape from a room guarded by police and hides him in his apartment. Soon, the two get closer. During sex, Jean calls his saviour Greta, after the brightest movie star of them all. Alas, the potential that first gives rise to tenderness soon takes a turn towards co-dependency.

“Armando Praça’s film tells of aging with great empathy. Of what it does to the body, to expectations, to desire. His Greta Garbo is a pudgy, withered man, played with enormous abandon by comedy legend Marco Nanini.” (Amos Borchert, curator of the “Focus Brazil” section)

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Armando Praça is a Brazilian sociologist and filmmaker born in 1978 in Aracati/Ceará. He has worked as assistant director, screenwriter and acting coach with reknown filmmakers in Brazil such as Marcelo Gomes, Karim Aïnouz, Márcia Faria, Sérgio Rezende, Halder Gomes and Rosemberg Cariry. His short- and medium-length films include THE BIONIC WOMAN (exhibited at the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival) and LOVE OF THE CLOWN. GRETA is his first feature film. Praça is currently preparing to shoot his second film, FORTALEZA HOTEL.