A rural family’s quiet life ignites when they hide a fugitive drug lord — and easy money turns survival into moral quicksand.
In the remote countryside of São Paulo, a struggling peasant family accepts a dangerous proposition: shelter a notorious drug lord in their modest home. As cash begins to flow, so do paranoia and temptation. Between suspicious neighbours and the smoke of the nearby charcoal plant, their fragile routine unravels. Charcoal is a razor-sharp, darkly absurd portrait of poverty, complicity, and the cost of easy salvation.
:Rialto Recommends
Bleakly funny and unsettlingly human, Charcoal turns moral compromise into gripping cinema. A dark comedy that smoulders long after the credits roll.
