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Mars One (pt. Marte Um) is a 2022 Brazilian drama film written and directed by Gabriel Martins. Starring Cicero Lucas, Carlos Francisco, Rejane Faria and Camilla Damião, the film tells the story of Deivinho, a low-middle-class black boy who dreams of becoming an astrophysicist and integrating the Mars One project to colonize the planet Mars. After debuting at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2022, the film was screened at several international festivals and won four awards at the Gramado Film Festival, including the Special Jury Award.

Marte Um premiered in Brazilian theaters on August 25, 2021, with distribution from Embaúba Filmes. In September 2022, the film was nominated by the Brazilian Academy of Cinema as the Brazilian representative to compete for the Academy Award for Best International Film 2023.

Plot
Set in Brazil between late 2018 and early 2019, after the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of the Republic, Marte Um accompanies the Martins, a black family of lower middle class living under a far-right government in Contagem, about 20 kilometers from Belo Horizonte. His father, Wellington, has been working as a doorman in a bourgeois building for years. A participant in alcoholics anonymous meetings, he's been sober for four years. A supporter of Cruzeiro, he puts all his financial hopes on his son's soccer career, but Deivinho dreams of studying astrophysics and integrating the Mars One project to colonize the planet Mars.

Eunice, the eldest daughter, a law student, falls in love with Joana and decides to live with her girlfriend, but fears her parents' prejudice for her sexual orientation. On the day she takes her girlfriend home, initially announcing her as a friend, the family watches the classic Atlético x Cruzeiro on television. When Eunice parents realize that they are holding hands, they get angry. Eunice then moves out of the house. Wellington refuses to say goodbye to his daughter, but receives a hug from her. With her partner, Eunice buys tickets to a lecture by Neil deGrasse Tyson for her brother, fascinated by the American scientist. The event, however, will take place on the same weekend of a soccer tryout for Cruzeiro that Wellington obtains for his son through Juan Pablo Sorín.

Tércia, the mother, believes she is cursed after being the target of a prank in a bakery in the center of Belo Horizonte in which a man pretends to throw dynamite in the establishment. After the event, she develops constant insomnia and anguish, in addition to sensitivity to explosion noises, which leads her to consult with a doctor and undergo a spiritual cleansing session. To not jinx her son's test in Cruzeiro, Tércia decides to travel by bus to Juatuba, a city with the cheapest bus ticket because the family begins to go through financial difficulties with rising inflation. At the bus station, about to buy the ticket, she finds the same actor who pranked her in the bakery months before. Tércia, finding him responsible for triggering her streak of bad luck, strikes him and throws his cameraman's camera to the ground.

That same day, Wellington learns that Flávio, his co-worker, stole the belongings from the apartament manager, who had left the key to her apartment with Wellington while traveling. Because of the incident, the Wellington is summarily fired. Upon arriving home, he discovers that Deivinho broke his leg on a bicycle accident and will not be able to attend the tryout. Saddened by the loss of both his job and hope for his son's footballer future, Wellington rips off the sobriety medal he carries around his neck, goes to a bar and returns home very drunk at dawn.

The next day, the father, accompanied by his daughter and wife, attends a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. That same day, Tércia discovers that the bus she was supposed to take crashed on the road, killing all passengers. At night, Deivinho shows the family the telescope that built alone with reused materials and presents the family with the planet Mars.

Cast

 * Cícero Lucas as Deivinho
 * Carlos Francisco as Wellington
 * Camilla Damião as Eunice
 * Rejane Faria as Tércia
 * Russo Apr as Flávio
 * Robson Vieira as Moisés
 * Tokinho as himself
 * Thiago Cesário as Sandy
 * Ana Hilário as Joana
 * Felipe Santos as Felipe
 * Juan Pablo Sorín as himself

Premiere
Mars One premiered on January 20, 2022 at the Sundance Film Festival. Even before the festival premiere, Magnolia Pictures acquired the international distribution rights to the film. In early February 2022, the film was screened at the Gothenburg Film Festival, and in late April at the San Francisco International Film Festival. In May 2022, Mars One was screened at the Inside Out LGBTQ Festival. In June, it was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, and in mid-July at outfest Los Angeles. In August 2022, it was screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

On August 25, 2022 Marte Um was released in theaters in Brazil, with distribution from Embaúba Filmes. In September 2022, the film was nominated by the Brazilian Academy of Cinema as the Brazilian representative to compete for the Academy Award for Best International Film 2023.

Reception
In the United States review aggregator, Rotten Tomatoes, in the score where the site's team categorizes the opinions of mainstream media and independent media only as positive or negative, the film has a 100% approval rating calculated based on 17 reviews from critics. By comparison, with the same opinions being calculated using a weighted arithmetic mean, the score achieved is 8.2/10.