
Feature film — 2016
My Hindu Friend (2016)
Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says goodbye to his friends and begins a routine of long days of treatment in hospital. While learning to live with the pain and also conversing with death, he meets a Hindu boy who is a fellow patient and who becomes his friend. But one day the boy disappears. Diego is discharged, but his life has changed forever. His marriage fails and, living alone, he begins to wonder whether he may in fact be dying and no one has told him. He tries to find out what happened to his Hindu friend, and eventually meets another woman.
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Director: Héctor Babenco
On screen
Cast & crew

Willem Dafoe
Diego Fairman

Maria Fernanda Cândido
Livia Monteiro Bueno

Reynaldo Gianecchini
Ricardo Steen

Selton Mello
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Bárbara Paz
Sofia Guerra

Guilherme Weber
Antonio Fairman

Dan Stulbach
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Gilda Nomacce
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Tuna Dwek
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Tania Khalill
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