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Quartzo

Quartzo

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Quartzo

2023

0h 13m

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Fantasy

Science Fiction

Overview

Ariel is a painter who finds herself stuck in a creative slump that threatens her sanity. Meanwhile, her ego takes the shape of an Astronaut, looking for something that might awaken her from this creative and psychological state

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3 featured cast members

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Priscila Esteves

Ariel

João Gilberto Lara

Astronaut

Frederic Mozart

The Shadow

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Directed by: Evandro Caixeta
João Gilberto Lara
Written by: Evandro Caixeta
João Gilberto Lara

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