Private Project

Flora

While traveling through her memories, a woman enslaved for 48 years receives her letter of manumission and questions her freedom.

Flora Maria Blumer de Toledo, a woman born into slavery on a sugarcane farm in the interior of Brazil, recalls the memories and stories of her childhood and youth in a scenario of deprivation of freedom, while idealizing freedom and seeing the world around her being transformed at every moment.

The rise and fall of large sugarcane farms, the arrival of European and American immigrants, Catholicism and Protestantism, and the wave of abolitionist revolts that make the slavery system in Brazil unsustainable.

Flora achieves her freedom, but how can she free herself from a series of memories that come not only from her own experiences, but from the entire ancestry of the black Afro-diasporic people.

Memories that fill the historical gap in her life and have never been told.

  • Beto Oliveira
    Director
    Hanger Dogs
  • Beto Oliveira
    Writer
    Hanger Dogs
  • Felipe Pedrosa
    Producer
  • Larissa Oliveira
    Key Cast
    "Flora"
  • Eva Prudencio
    Key Cast
    "Old Flora"
  • Jennifer Souza
    Key Cast
    "Ana"
  • Mayara Constantino Constantino
    Key Cast
    "Sinhá"
  • Marina Rigueira
    Key Cast
    "Maria Blumer"
  • Bruno Goya
    Key Cast
    "Senhor de Engenho"
  • Pedro Monteiro
    Key Cast
    "Pedro Blumer"
  • Mel Lisboa
    Key Cast
    "Martha Watts"
  • João Vitti
    Key Cast
    "Prudente de Moraes"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Flora
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 51 minutes 1 second
  • Completion Date:
    November 20, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    200 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    21:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Distribution Information
  • Frame7 Cinema
Director Biography - Beto Oliveira

Flora (2025) - fiction feature
Out of Air (2025) - doc feature
Forgetting Flora (2023) - doc feature
Day in Black (2023) - short
Things we you do when notting happens! (2022)- short
What have to dinner! (2022) - short
Hunger Dogs (2017) - fiction feature
Odd Stranger (2016) - short

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Director Statement

For me, cinema is more than just a way of telling stories — it is a tool for coping with and surviving memory. I come from a country where my memory and existence are constantly denied, and my work seeks to challenge the absences of black narratives.

In each project, I try to create images that dialogue with time, that not only represent, but also question what has been silenced. Flora, my most recent feature film, is an example of this commitment: it is not just about narrating slavery, but about exploring how its memories remain alive in our bodies, in our feelings and in our social structures.

Telling stories is also a political act. And it is with this awareness that I continue to create: filming is insisting on the possibility of transformation.