Caught between a magical upbringing with his grandmother, Dilma (Divine Love’s Teca Pereira), and an uncertain future, 11-year-old Gugu (a wonderful Yuri Gomes) plays soccer fabulously — glitter and all. But when Dilma’s Alzheimer’s disease worsens, he finds his childhood upended. Afraid that he’ll be sent to live with his father (Lázaro Ramos of the queer Brazilian classic Madame Satã) and his father’s new family, Gugu tries to hide signs of Dilma’s illness from the disapproving outside world.

Winner of the Crystal Bear at the Berlinale and the Premio Maguey Awards for Best Feature and Best Performance (shared by Gomes and Pereira) at the Guadalajara International Film Festival, Brazilian filmmaker Allan Deberton’s latest queer story is a tender-yet-powerful look at what it means to come of age and find yourself, all while trying to keep your increasingly unstable world whole.