The Last Poem

Brazil, 70 min, HD/DCP, Feature, 2015

Directed and Written by
Mirela Kruel

With
Helena Maria Balbinot, Janaina Kremer, Rodrigo Fiatt and Ana Júlia Chiodi Alberti

Production
Besouro Filmes

Financing
FUMPROARTE, Edital SEDAC-RS Finalização de longa-metragem

Distribution
Lança Filmes

Helena Maria Balbinot, a countryside teacher from the south of Brazil, exchanged letters during 24 years with Brazilian modernist poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. The movie reveals part of these letters. Through scenes of poetry and extreme beauty, this friendship is reinvented in the audience eyes. A meeting between the poems of Drummond and the particular universe of Helena Maria.