The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias

Football and dictatorship are viewed through a child’s eyes in this tender story of absence and belonging.

  • Director

    Cao Hamburger

  • With

    Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Daniela Piepszyk

  • Brazil 2006. 104min

  • Digital

  • English subtitles

Left with relatives while his parents ‘disappear’ during the dictatorship, a football-obsessed boy finds community in a São Paulo neighbourhood. Hamburger filters political trauma through childhood perception, blending humour and melancholy. It’s a tender coming-of-age story shaped by absence, memory and solidarity, with the 1970 World Cup as a national soundtrack.