Berlin Crystal Bear Winner Caru Alves de Souza to Unveil New Movie Project ‘A City for Christine’ at Malaga (EXCLUSIVE)

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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Brazil’s Caru Alves de Souza, a Berlin Crystal Bear winner for “My Name is Baghdad,” will unveil new movie project “A City for Christine” at Spain’s Malaga Festival where it weighs in as one of the highlights at its industry centrepiece strand, the Málaga Festival Fund Co-Production Event (MAFF). “A City for Christine” is written by Alves de Souza, selected as one of Variety’s Brazil: 10 Next Gen Talents to Track, and Nara Marinho, who teamed for the Berlin 2025-selected “Underage,” the series expansion on Alves de Souza’s 2013 feature debut of the same title.

The lead role of Christine will be played by Karina Buhr, a Brazilian singer-songwriter and percussionist who starred in “My Name is Baghdad,” a best film winner at Berlin’s 2020 Generation 14plus sidebar. “A City for Christine” (“Uma cidade para Christine”) also unites Alves de Souza and Rafaella Costa, founder of Manjericão Filmes and the writer-director’s career-long producer from her Rio Film Festival best film winner “Underage.” Costa also produced two films by Tata Amaral – “Bring It Inside” (2013), “Express Kidnapping” (2018) – as well as Lillah Halla’s Cannes Critics’ Week title “Levante,” a Fipresci Prize winner for titles competing outside Cannes’ Official Selection.

Packed with ideas and framing a typical Alves de Souza questioning of authority and received wisdom in a tale of female agency, “A City for Christine” begins with Christine, a victim of domestic violence, escaping and wandering the streets of São Paulo. “In her drift, she experiences situations because she is a woman and meets other women who reflect on the need to think about cities from a gender, race and class perspective to denaturalize.