Grace Passô's 'Our Secret' Wins Best Film at 54th Gramado Fest
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- Grace Passô's "Our Secret" — her feature directorial debut about a Black family navigating grief and hidden trauma — won the Best Film Kikito plus cinematography (Wilssa Esser) and art direction (Lucas Osório) at the Aug. 22 closing ceremony of the 54th Gramado Film Festival.
- "Gugu's World" by Allan Deberton swept four Kikitos: the audience award, best director, best actress (Teca Pereira) and best supporting actor (Lázaro Ramos), with an honorable mention going to 11-year-old Yuri Gomes.
- Carlos Segundo's "Milk Powder" ("Leite em Pó") took the critics' jury award for best Brazilian feature, plus screenplay (with Rafael Copel) and sound design (Waldir Xavier).
- José Loreto shared the Best Actor Kikito with Christian Malheiros ("Justino: Nos Bastidores do Reino"), while Naruna Costa took Best Supporting Actress for "Pele de Rinoceronte."
- Vitrine Filmes — the distributor of Kleber Mendonça Filho's "The Secret Agent" — will release "Our Secret" in Brazilian theaters on Aug. 27.
- Marcos Caruso received the Troféu Cidade de Gramado, Selton Mello and Maria Fernanda Cândido accepted the Troféu Kikito de Cristal, Andrea Beltrão took the Troféu Oscarito, and producer Renata Almeida Magalhães was honored with the Troféu Eduardo Abelin.
Why it matters: For a first-time director who is already an established playwright and actress, winning the top Kikito with a Black-family grief drama and securing a confirmed Aug. 27 theatrical release through Vitrine Filmes — the same distributor behind Kleber Mendonça Filho's "The Secret Agent" — gives "Our Secret" one of the more direct festival-to-screen pipelines of recent Brazilian cinema, putting a debut Black auteur on the country's arthouse marquee within days of the award.
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