World film project: Brazil

So we got really stalled on Indonesia, because we could not find a single film made in Indonesia available either on DVD that could be purchased here, or streaming services we have access to. Last night we were tired and wanted to curl up with a film, but also didn't have much energy for researching or deciding. So we decided to move to the next in the list, but I remembered the next biggest country as being Brazil when actually it should have been Pakistan. We found some random list of Brazilian films available on streaming services, recommended by a blogger who suggested it might be helpful for people practising their Portuguese.

After eliminating films that sounded like they were mainly about violence, or 'young girls tragically forced into prostitution', and a couple we couldn't straightforwardly find, we settled on Jonas (2015, directed Lô Politi). We were somewhat misled by the summary, which was about childhood friends reconnecting and getting into an out-of-control situation where they have to hide inside a carnival whale. jack was expecting some kind of comic hijinks – I knew it was going to be a drama but was thrown by the actual plot being about a violent, drug and murder-fuelled kidnapping rather than impulsive teenagers getting into a weird situation.

( detailed review; CN violence and dubcon )

I think the conclusion is that in future we should take more care in choosing films! Does anyone have any recs for Pakistani films, ideally 21^st century and not primarily about violence or depressing real-world history?