Playing (film)

Playing (Jogo de Cena) is a 2007 Brazilian documentary film by Eduardo Coutinho, about the friction between truth and fiction in the cinema.

In the 2010s it was ranked as number 17 on the Abraccine Top 100 Brazilian films list and also number 2 in the documentary list.

Plot
In response to a newspaper ad, 83 women responded and told their life story in a studio. Twenty-three of them were selected and filmed in June 2006. In September of the same year, several actresses interpreted, in their own way, the same stories.

Cast

 * Andréa Beltrão as herself
 * Fernanda Torres as herself
 * Marilia Pera as herself
 * Aleta Gomes Vieira as herself
 * Claudiléa Cerqueira de Lemos as herself
 * Débora Almeida as herself
 * Gisele Alves Moura as herself
 * Jeckie Brown as herself
 * Lana Guelero as herself
 * Maria de Fátima Barbosa as herself
 * Marina D'Elia as herself
 * Mary Sheila as herself
 * Sarita Houli Brumer as herself

Promotion
Playing was included in the Official Selection at the International Film Festival in Punta del Este, and received its first international public screening there in February, 2008.

On April, 2008 the film was also screened at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema and at the Tribeca Film Festival.

The film made subsequent appearances at the Locarno Film Festival (on August 7, 2008) and the Los Angeles Film Festival (on November 19, 2014).

In Brazil, the film had its premiere at the São Paulo International Film Festival in October, 2007 and had its theatrical release on November 9, 2007.