At the end of the 1940s, Lebanon is sliding towards a devastating conflict. Catholic siblings Emilie and Emir decide to leave for Brazil. Aboard the ship to their new home, Emilie falls in love with Omar, a Muslim merchant. For an enraged and jealous Emir, the relationship is intolerable. As the story unfolds against the backdrop of the majestic rainforest, Emir’s actions and the choice that Emilie subsequently makes lead to disastrous consequences.
Rebels on the surface, retrogrades in essence. “The Ridiculists”, a duo composed of the eccentric and explosive, “The Ridiculer”, and his faithful squirer, “The Talker”, roam through the Brazilian capital breaking into homes, committing murders, as they create a legion of blind supporters along the way.
A teacher asks for his students to make an animated self portrait.
In a city where the fast pace swallows up the days, an ordinary worker reflects on the daily battle of crossing a few kilometers to get to work. Between insistent alarm clocks and routine conversations with colleagues, he realizes how his hours are devoured by commuting and how his existence goes unnoticed in the crowd. When he realizes that many share this same reality, he questions what it really means to live in a "Bauru outside of Bauru", where the fight for time and recognition is constant, but invisible.
In a cardboard forest, two stones argue.
ANA C. uses videoart and videoperformance to express the relationship between the marginalized poet Ana Cristina Cesar with art itself.
A man, a male man, masculine man, XY chromossome, a man teaches how to do an origami of a vagina, but then he gets sad because this is a sensitive topic in his life.
In an extremely systematic, oppressive, and controlling school, a student breaks free from collective alienation and sparks a true revolution in their class, fighting for freedom, mental health, and better quality of education.
A man who can't stand living surrounded by aesthetics anymore receives a package at his door with lip gloss and a ticket to the Almodóvar film: "Strange Way of Living". Then, he goes crazy and rips off his skin in order to finally have the perfect body.
A coroner reunites with a great love from the past, realizing that the memories are more vivid than ever.
The attempt to make a short film about editing a short film about editing an argument between 2 friends during the editing of an incomplete short film about the decision to make a new short film from scratch or to re-upload an old short film.
Where's the girl? Can you hold her for me? I need her now.
Before Cinema Novo revolutionized the Brazilian cinematic scenery, a young craftsman and Bahian filmmaker had already paved the way for the beginning of the journey for some of the biggest and most popular films of Brazilian history. The documentary tells fragments of the story of director Roberto Pires, through snippets of his life and a journey through his body of work, interspersing archival footage, scenes of his films and an interview with his son, also a filmmaker, Petrus Pires, followed by a poetic narration and an original soundtrack inspired by his film Abrigo Nuclear.
