• Title: BABY
• Original Title: BABY
• Country: Brasil
• Screening date: 31/05/2025
• Direction: Marcelo Caetano
• Script: Marcelo Caetano, Gabriel Domingues
• Cast: João Pedro Mariano, Ricardo Teodoro, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Bruna Linzmeyer, Luiz Bertazzo

At 18 years old, Wellington (provocatively nicknamed "Baby") has just been released from a juvenile detention center in São Paulo. With no family, friends, or resources to survive, he turns to Ronaldo, a charming, experienced older man, who introduces him to exciting new ways to survive in the city's most marginalized areas. The fun doesn't last long, however, as the passion of their relationship inevitably turns tumultuous. The bustling Brazilian streets come alive, revealing their dizzying vitality, their seductions, and their dangers in this sublime film presented at the Cannes Film Festival.

Baby depicts the city as a journey of self-discovery, where desire, emotion, and pain lurk around every corner. Driven by Marcelo Caetano's elegant direction, this stark coming-of-age story wrestles with themes of love and coercion, reflecting on what is still possible for a restless heart once a "baby" becomes a man.