Frameline49: The Nature of Invisible Things

(A Natureza das Coisas Invisíveis)

Sponsored by BMO

In a stunning feature debut, director Rafaela Camelo has created an intimate, lyrical, and often-humorous story of the bonds of friendship, matriarchy, and chosen sisterhood with The Nature of Invisible Things. Ten-year-old Gloria is stuck spending her vacation in the hospital where her single mom works long hours as a nurse. Struggling with a sense of being different, Gloria’s most at home with elderly patients on her mom’s hospital ward. When Sofia comes to the hospital with her great-grandmother, a spiritual healer suffering from complications of dementia, the two young girls are thrown together to keep out of trouble. Sofia and Gloria quickly form a bond that both exemplifies and transcends that first friend who truly sees you and knows you, a bond that ultimately carries them and their families through a summer of healing and letting go.

Phenomenal acting from a host of memorable characters and a dash of magical realism allow Invisible Things to illuminate the beautiful complexities of relationships across generations and exemplify what’s possible in a community of belonging and love. 

Expected Guests

Rafaela Camelo
Director