Taís Araujo To Star In ‘My Father’s Wives’ From Brazil’s Elo Studios & Portugal’s Bro Cinema
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- Elo Studios has partnered with Bro Cinema in a co-production deal to adapt José Eduardo Agualusa’s novel My Father’s Wives for the big screen, marking a strategic expansion of its international footprint.
- Taís Araujo will star as Laurentina, a Mozambican woman raised in Brazil who travels to Angola after her biological father’s death, embarking on a journey of memory, identity, and belonging.
- Mário Patrocínio will direct the film, titled As Mulheres do Meu Pai, bringing his organic relationship with Africa and cinematic vision to what Agualusa describes as a story 'born as cinema'.
- José Eduardo Agualusa stated the novel was conceived with cinematic language in mind, emphasizing image, music, and silence, and expressed trust in Patrocínio’s ability to transform it into an artistic encounter.
- Sabrina Nudeliman Wagon, CEO of Elo Studios, emphasized the global resonance of the story’s themes of identity and ancestry, with Elo also handling distribution in Brazil.
Why it matters: This co-production unites major creative forces across Brazil, Portugal, and Angola to center African ancestry and Lusophone identity in a global cinematic narrative—giving underrepresented stories access to broader audiences and distribution infrastructure, while affirming the cultural and commercial viability of pan-Lusophone collaboration.
