THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION

2006, dir: Cao Hamburger

In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel Stern and his wife Miriam leaves
Belo Horizonte in a hurry and scared with their ten years old son Mauro
in their Volkswagen. While traveling to São Paulo, the couple explains
Mauro that they will travel on vacation and will leave Mauro with his
grandfather Mótel. Daniel promises to return before the first game of
the Brazilian National Soccer Team in the Cup. The boy is left in Bom
Retiro, a Jewish and Italian neighborhood, and waits for Mótel in front
of his apartment. When the next door neighbor Shlomo arrives, he tells
the boy that Mótel had just had a heart attack and died. Alone and
without knowing where his parents are, the boy is lodged by Shlomo and
the Jewish community. Through the young neighbor Hanna, Mauro makes new
friends, cheers for the Brazilian team and sees the movement of the
police and militaries on the streets while waiting for his parents.