Toll
Carolina Markowicz / Brazil, Portugal / 2023 / 102 min / Portuguese with English Subtitles
FEATURE
Content Warnings: explicit violence, homophobia, transphobia, conversion therapy
Toll booth attendant Suellen is desperate to alter her teenage son’s flamboyant online persona. Convinced that an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest is the answer, she becomes involved with a criminal gang to raise the funds. 'Toll' crafts a nuanced portrait of Brazil and an inarticulate but loving mother-son relationship.