God Is Brazilian

God Is Brazilian (Portuguese: Deus É Brasileiro) is a 2003 Brazilian fantasy comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Carlos Diegues, based on the short story O Santo que Não Acreditava em Deus by João Ubaldo Ribeiro.

In the film, God, portrayed by Antônio Fagundes, decides to take a vacation and heads to Northeastern Brazil to find a saint as a replacement.

Filming took place over the course of 64 days in the Brazilian states of Tocantins, Alagoas, Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro.

[1] Taoca, a part-time fisherman and small-time con artist, finds a man holding on to a buoy in the middle of the ocean.

Along the way, they meet a woman, Madá, who joins the two in hopes they will take her to São Paulo, where her mother has died.