Gibsons Heritage Playhouse: Film Showing: The Blue Trail

Brazil 2025, 89 min, Drama
Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Starring: Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socarras

Portuguese with English subtitles

Sometime in the future, the Brazilian government has implemented a policy of sending persons of 75 and older to a colony, to conserve resources and presumably to comfortably live the last years of their lives. Teresa, who at 77 was still working in a factory, defies the order to leave and instead embarks on a journey seeking her one dream: to ride in an airplane.

Although she has some resources, including her life savings and her own determination, she is challenged by needing her daughter’s permission to even buy a ticket and by being sought by authorities. She succeeds, and her magical journey begins.