It is out. Here the Whole Time has been on Netflix since 19 August 2026, worldwide. The film opened in Brazilian cinemas on 18 June under its Portuguese title, Quinze Dias, and for two months there was no word on how the rest of us would get to see it. Now it is streaming, included with your subscription, with an English dub and English subtitles.
Two teenagers, fifteen days, and a crush Felipe has been sitting on for years. It is also one of the very few MM stories where the lead is fat and nobody treats that as something to be cured. I read the novel before the film existed, so I came to this with a lot of affection and high expectations.
Out now
Here the Whole Time has been streaming on Netflix since 19 August 2026
After its Brazilian cinema run on 18 June 2026, the film went up on Netflix worldwide on 19 August. It is included with your subscription, with an English dub and English subtitles.
The Brazilian title is Quinze Dias, so try that too if the search comes up empty.
Official poster for Here the Whole Time, streaming on Netflix since 19 August 2026.
In this guide
Where to Watch, and Which Version
Netflix, since 19 August 2026. It went up as a global release rather than a Brazil exclusive, so every catalogue got it on the same day. Nothing to rent, nothing to track down.
Dubbed or subtitled?
Both. There is an English dub in the audio tracks, and English subtitles if you would rather have the original. You switch between them in the audio and subtitles menu of the player, as usual.
The film was shot in Brazilian Portuguese, and I would watch it subtitled if you can stand reading. The accent and the rhythm of the dialogue do a lot of the work. The dub is there if you would rather not.
The practical details
- Platform: Netflix, included with your subscription
- Search for: Here the Whole Time, or Quinze Dias, its Brazilian title
- Audio: Brazilian Portuguese and English
- Subtitles: English available
- Runtime: around 100 minutes
What the Film Is, and Who Made It
The story
Felipe is a gay teenager, fat, and very good at making himself small. He has been waiting for the July holidays since term started, to get away from the boys who make his life miserable at school and spend two weeks with his books and his shows. His plans fall apart when his mother tells him they will be hosting Caio for fifteen days while Caio’s parents are travelling. Caio is the neighbour Felipe has been in love with since childhood. Fifteen days sharing a roof, a fridge, and possibly a great deal more. Felipe spends them caught between hope and the shame he carries about his body, working out whether he can stand to let someone look at him properly.
Behind the camera
The film is directed by Daniel Lieff, from a screenplay by Ray Tavares and Vitor Brandt, produced in Brazil by Conspiração. Vitor Martins, who wrote the novel, is one of the significant voices in Brazilian LGBTQ+ fiction. Shooting took place in Rio de Janeiro and in Cataguases, in Minas Gerais, in May 2025.
Release: Brazilian cinemas 18 June 2026, Netflix worldwide 19 August 2026
Original title: Quinze Dias
Format: Feature film, around 100 minutes
Director: Daniel Lieff, written by Ray Tavares and Vitor Brandt
Adapted from: the novel Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins
Audience: young adult, and accessible to anyone
The Cast
Three names to know, and a trio that carries the whole thing.
Miguel Lallo
as Felipe
Diego Lira
as Caio
Débora Falabella
as Rita, Felipe’s mother
Débora Falabella is a major figure in Brazilian film and television, known internationally for the telenovela Avenida Brasil. Casting her tells you the scale they were aiming for. This was built for a wide audience, not for the festival circuit.
Miguel Lallo and Diego Lira carry the central pair, and the Brazilian LGBTQ+ community followed their casting closely. There is also Bel Moreira, Silvio Guindane, Mika Soeiro and Mariana Santos around them.
One detail that tells you how Netflix positioned this film: to announce the release date, the platform flew Miguel Lallo and Diego Lira to London to meet Kit Connor and Joe Locke, the two leads of Heartstopper. Netflix was making the comparison for us, and the film earns it.
The Trailer
Bright and warm, and it gives away the tone without giving away the plot. A Brazilian summer, two teenagers, and a crush.
My Review
It was wonderful. The actor playing Felipe is superb, very funny and very moving at the same time.
And I have to say I adored his character, he has an overflowing imagination. The look of the film is vivid with colour, and it moves at a real pace.
It flirts between funny moments and tender ones the whole way through.
The rest of my review contains spoilers, click to open
You can feel the attraction between the two of them right from the start.
What really impressed me is the way the film moves from something sweet, tender and touching to something a great deal heavier. The scene where they dance together, for instance, and Felipe catches sight of himself in the mirror.
Three questions you might have
What are the content warnings?
Show the answer (spoilers)
Fatphobia, bullying, disordered eating, parental rejection.
Is there any adult content?
Show the answer (spoilers)
No, this is young adult. But they do have sex, it is stated explicitly and very briefly glimpsed.
Is there a kiss?
Show the answer (spoilers)
YES.
The Novel It Comes From
Quinze Dias was published in Brazil by Companhia das Letras in 2017, and translated into English by Larissa Helena as Here the Whole Time, published by Push, an imprint of Scholastic, in November 2020. It is easy to find in English in paperback and on Kindle. Young adult contemporary, MM romance, coming of age. See on Amazon
The summary
Fifteen days of summer, forced cohabitation with the neighbour you have been quietly in love with for years, and the question you have spent your whole life avoiding: is it possible to love yourself as you are, before somebody else does it for you?
Why this book matters
Here the Whole Time mattered in YA because its lead is fat and the book refuses to make that either a problem to be solved or a running joke. Felipe is seventeen, gay, in love with the boy next door, and his body is the centre of the story rather than a detour on the way to it. Martins writes about it with a directness that surprised me.
The novel has been published in nine countries, its English translation won the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative award for best translated young adult book, and it became a reference point on body image for queer teenagers.
What I thought of the book
The themes are what made me pick it up. MM romance has very fixed ideas about physical beauty: athletic leads, defined abs. It is close to a genre requirement by now. This book sits at the opposite end, with a gay lead who is fat and was never taught to like himself.
I loved reading it, and it was exactly what I hoped for. Felipe does not close the book deciding to take up sport so he can deserve love, and there is no transformation that fixes everything on the last page. What he does instead is slower and much harder. He works out that he is allowed to be wanted for what he already is.
And Martins writes it well, without ever overdoing it. That is why I wanted the adaptation to be good.
What the Film Is Really About
Fatphobia, head on
MM romance almost never puts a fat lead at the centre and names fatphobia out loud. Felipe was taught to hate himself, and the film shows the teaching: the comments at school, the looks, the jokes from family that are meant kindly. It is the part readers of the novel were most protective about.
Body image and queer teenagers
Being a queer teenager is hard enough. Being a queer fat teenager tends to mean feeling like you fit nowhere, not the straight standards and not the gay ones either. The film takes that seriously and refuses the easy way out of it. Felipe gets no makeover. He gets a summer and a lot of uncomfortable self-examination.
Coming of age and first love
And then there is Caio, who is gentle and who does not look at Felipe the way everyone else does. The story does not skip the sensuality either, it just writes it for a body that learned to hide. For a lot of readers that is where the book lands hardest, watching someone be wanted exactly as he is.
Mothers, families, and learning
The novel gives real weight to the mother and son relationship. Rita loves her son and still reaches for the wrong words, and the book lets her be both at once. It is one of the most affecting threads in the book, and one of the harder ones to carry on screen.
If You Loved Heartstopper
Heartstopper and Here the Whole Time share a spine: a queer teenage romance handled tenderly, with no tragedy thrown in for weight, and characters you want to protect from the first page. Falling in love is the easy half in both of them. The hard half is letting yourself be seen doing it.
- Mental health at the centre. Charlie is dealing with an eating disorder and anxiety, Felipe with fatphobia and self-loathing. In both, the other boy is there to witness it rather than to fix it.
- A gentle register. Nobody is punished for being queer. The stakes are a heart beating too fast when the other one walks into the room.
- Imperfect but loving families. Felipe’s mother, Nick’s mother: two women learning at the same time as their sons.
- An ending that treats you well. Nothing is taken away from them in the last act, and you finish feeling better than when you started.
The main difference? The setting. Heartstopper lives in a soft, colour-graded England. This one lives in a Brazilian summer, and it is hotter and louder in every sense.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Here the Whole Time on Netflix?
Yes, since 19 August 2026. It is included with your subscription, there is nothing to rent or buy. Search for Here the Whole Time, or for its original title Quinze Dias if your profile still uses it.
Is it dubbed in English?
Yes. There is an English dub in the audio tracks, and English subtitles if you prefer the original Brazilian Portuguese. I would recommend subtitles, but both are there.
Do I need to read the novel first?
No, the film works without it. The book does go further into Felipe’s head than any film can, so read it if you want the fuller version. Before or after, both orders work.
Is the novel available in English?
Yes. It was translated as Here the Whole Time and published by Push, an imprint of Scholastic, in 2020. It is here on Amazon in paperback and on Kindle.
Is it a film or a series?
A feature film, around 100 minutes. Not a series.
Was it in cinemas?
In Brazil, yes, from 18 June 2026, distributed by Manequim Filmes. In most other countries it went straight to Netflix on 19 August.
Four Books in the Same Vibe
Once the credits have rolled, these four share the DNA of Here the Whole Time: young adult, self-acceptance, first love, and a gentleness that does you good.
Heartstopper, Volume 1
Charlie, gay and keeping his head down, sits next to Nick, a popular rugby player. A friendship turns into something else, with everything that involves: coming out, anxiety, and a heart that will not behave. A graphic novel series, and the one everyone starts with.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Simon is gay, nobody knows, and he has been emailing an anonymous boy from his school called Blue. When someone finds the messages and uses them against him, the whole careful arrangement falls apart.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Texas, the 1980s. Ari is closed off, Dante is all light. Two Mexican American teenagers, one summer that changes everything, and a question that takes them a long time to ask.
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Linus, a caseworker whose life has narrowed to almost nothing, is sent to inspect an orphanage on a remote island. There he meets Arthur, and a household of magical children who take his careful world apart.
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