No quiero volver solo
2010 · 17m · Brasil
Directed by Daniel Ribeiro
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, LGBTQ+
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
The arrival of a new student at school changes the life of Leonardo, a blind teenager. From then on, Leo will have to deal with the jealousy of his friend Giovana while trying to figure out what his feelings are towards his new friend.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's competent coming-of-age queer cinema, sure, but it doesn't subvert the form—it inhabits it earnestly, which honestly feels like the safer play for a 2010 Brazilian teen drama about a blind kid.
Ribeiro positions the film within a lineage of tender, introspective youth narratives, and the restraint in the emotional register—never overselling Leo's interior life—demonstrates formal control that rewards close attention.
The decision to filter the entire film through tactile and auditory specificity rather than compensatory visual spectacle is what makes this work; every sound design choice becomes the real landscape of Leo's world, and it costs almost nothing but changes everything.