Toll (film)

Toll (Portuguese: Pedágio) is a 2023 Brazilian-Portuguese drama film written, directed and co-produced by Carolina Markowicz.

[1] The film stars Maeve Jinkings as Suellen, a woman who gets drawn into a criminal gang as she tries to raise the money to send her gay son to a conversion therapy program.

The cast also includes Thomás Aquino, Isac Graça, Caio Macedo, Kauan Alvarenga and Aline Marta Maia.

The film was first announced in 2020 as Markowicz's feature debut,[2] although production was delayed and she instead released Charcoal (Carvão) in 2022 before completing Toll.

[6] It is also slated to screen in the Horizontes Latinos program at the 71st San Sebastián International Film Festival.