Cyclone

A working-class playwright battles patriarchy and scandal to claim her future in early-20th-century São Paulo.

  • Director

    Flávia Castro

  • With

    Helena Albergaria, Magali Biff, Rogério Brito

  • Brazil 2025. 100min

  • Digital

  • English subtitles

São Paulo, 1919. Playwright Dayse – inspired by modernist figure Miss Cyclone – struggles for recognition and dreams of a scholarship to Paris, while confronting an unwanted pregnancy and a society that denies her authorship. Eschewing the conventions of a classical biopic, Castro imagines the life history erased, restoring Dayse’s place within Brazilian Modernism through performance, solidarity and cinematic reinvention.