The film's little dialogue is Portuguese spoken backwards.
The first Portuguese-language film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
The film has won both main the main prize - Cristal for a Feature and the Audience Award at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2014.
The development of the movie started as a documentary on Latin America. Alê Abreu said that the transformation into an animated film happened naturally and that he feels like he made two movies, with the documentary inside the animated movie.