Eager to taste the world, Teresa (Elizabete Francisca) relocates from her native Portugal to move in with longtime friend and fellow expat Francisca (Francisca Manuel), the pair sharing a tiny apartment in the center of Belo Horizonte, one of Brazil's largest metropolitan centers. Full of life, Teresa quickly comes to embrace the rhythms and unexpected pleasures of her new home as her more mature flat-mate quietly starts to long for a return to her European roots in this beautiful, nuanced and sensitively drawn exploration of place, home and the shifting sands of friendship.

Developing the screenplay through workshops with non-professional actors, this first fiction narrative from acclaimed documentarian Marília Rocha weaves a warm, true-to-life spell that will resonate with anyone who remembers (or is experiencing) the exciting, unsteady energy of what it is to be 20-something and free. Vividly photographed by Ivio Lopes Araújo in Belo Horizonte's pool halls, parks, streets and backyards, Where I Grow Old unfolds with the same freshness and sense of wonder that defines youth itself.

Winner: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Brasília; Best Film, Biarritz