Streamed on The Show Must Go On(line) Pittsburgh channel. (run time: 120 minutes)

Set against the music of Belle and Sebastian, Daniel Ribeiro’s coming of age tale, THE WAY HE LOOKS is a fun and tender story about friendship and the complications of young love. Leo is a blind teenager who’s fed up with his overprotective mother and the bullies at school. Looking to assert his independence, he decides to study abroad to the dismay of his best friend, Giovana. When Gabriel, the new kid in town, teams with Leo on a school project, new feelings blossom in him that make him reconsider his plans. Meanwhile, Giovana grows jealous of this new found companionship as tensions mount between her and Leo.

Daniel Ribeiro was born on May 20, 1982 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He is an editor and director, known for The Way He Looks (2014), I Don’t Want to Go Back Alone (2010) and You, Me and Him (2007).

Praise for The Way He Looks:

NYT CRITICS’ PICK. This winning movie… is Brazil’s foreign-language entry to the Academy Awards. That’s no surprise! – Andy Webster, The New York Times

An instant classic! Tender, exquisite… If Americans ever start making films like this, the world will be a better place. (HIGHEST RATING)– David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle

Told with such tenderness, such intelligence and such aching honesty… it’s hard to forget– Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post

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