When I Grow Up

When I Grow Up

When I Grow Up

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When I Grow Up

2025

0h 15m

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Drama

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After visiting his father and brother in prison, Gabriel (06) and his mother, Vera (45), return home weighed down by questions, fears, and an uncertain future. Vera tries to hold herself together when her son asks if, when he grows up, he too will share the same fate as the men in their family: incarceration.

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Miguel Brasilio

Gabriel

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Cássia Damasceno

Vera

Cássia Damasceno

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Regina Vogue

Dulce

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Verônica Rodrigues

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