Era o Hotel Cambridge tells the story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of low-income workers, occupy an old abandoned building in downtown São Paulo. Daily dramas, comical situations and different views on the world commingle with the threat of impending eviction.
Eliane Caffé made, in 1988, her first feature, Kenôma (Kenoma), which achieved international recognition and was screened at numerous festivals all over the world. Her next films, Narradores de Javé (The Storytellers, 2003) and O Sol do Meio Dia (The Midday Sun, 2009), followed the same path. She has also directed TV series and documentaries with an experimental angle, in addition to coordinating audiovisual collectives in conflictive areas of inland Brasil. Era o Hotel Cambridge (The Cambridge Squatter) was one of the projects selected for Films in Progress at the San Sebastian Festival in 2015.