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Ficções Sõnicas #2 is a film-play made in downtown São Paulo, during the pandemic. In history, they occupy the Municipal Theater and rehearse a play without an audience, in a search path that awakens them from the inaction and automation of sensitivity. The film-play is part of the Sonic Fictions Project, idealized by Grace Passô, where a series of artistic creations are made to experience children and act on the basis of black lives in diaspora.
When humans become animals and animals become humans.
Derley makes a living by participating in cultural contests and sweepstakes. His wife, Maria Celia, is pregnant and wants that he arranges a real job, generating an intense crisis in the relationship. But Derley will try to prove to Maria Celia that luck is always at his side.
Five people have their lives crossed at the place where the law is made by whoever takes the first step.
Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.
Silvia is a ballerina completely consumed with dance. She locks herself in her apartment, determined to rehearse until she achieves perfection. Her compulsion makes her enter a state of growing delirium, to the point of not sleeping and hardly eating. Her rehearsals are only interrupted when she notices a dirt stain on the carpet. Silvia tries to clean it in vain. Tormented, she tears off the carpet trying to discover the origin of the stain but the stain relentlessly continues to grow and invades the apartment little by little.
The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial times that start to take over Brazil.
The special brings the continuation of the plot starring Gilda and Lúcia in the series 'Amor e Sorte'. After a period of forced coexistence due to social isolation, they face a new reality.
(Talita Feuser), suffocated in her monotonous routine - sleeps, wakes up, works and, sometimes, helps her mother Amelia (Debora Duarte), shaken by the recent death of her bitch, with daily chores. A strange diagnosis causes Women to confront their own passivity: their organs are disappearing. The medical interest in the subject frightens the patient, who escapes any kind of treatment. The revelation, however, coincides with the arrival of a mysterious new neighbor (Luiza Lamoglia) to the building of Woman. The two give up the tide, cultivating a mutual curiosity and an eventual intimacy; recognition. Woman is torn between her mother and the new inhabitant.
After the acidental discovery of a mysterious grafitti inside a bus, an unimportant telemarketing operator decides to give his life a completely new and unknown path through urban epiphanies.
A couple of rubber workers from Manaus are transported from 1919, the end of the Spanish Flu in Brazil, to 2020, the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Between quinine, British tea, street music and internet modem, the couple's adventures, under the intoxicating opium of pornochanchada, show how the country's conservative structures have been maintained since other carnivals.
Julio is enchanted by a coffee shop attendant and confuses himself with a bad element. To get revenge, the thug kills his sister and kidnaps the waitress. Classic representative of the Ciclo do Recife.
A mysterious health condition emerged in late 2022: dozens of people go to sleep and never wake up, entering a deep coma popularly known as "The Sleep Plague." Ester, a psychology student burdened with guilt over her recent loss of her mother, finds herself involuntarily living in her own dreams. With the chance to reunite with her mother, Ester will discover that living in her mind may not be as pleasant as it seems.
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.
Somewhere in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas (Álvaro Guimarães) decides to increase his patrimony even further by exploiting ores. To do this, he tries to appropriate the small site of Antônio Vaqueiro (José Marinho). Desperate, Antônio rushes to the aid of the gypsy healer Maria dos Remédios (Luiza Maranhão) and the poet and dreamer Tião Poeta (Lenicio Queirogo) to face the greed of Elói.
Inside a socio-educational detention unit, five youths in conflict with the law plan their own film as a way to find meaning in their time behind bars. Through a hybrid process that blends documentary and fiction, TWENTY TWENTY FOUR dissolves the reality of juvenile crime and confinement into a sensory experience—exploring rebellion, boredom, and traces of tenderness within a space defined by abandonment.
After expelling some boys, Dona Miséria meets a beggar who claims to be sent from God. Her daily life is changed when death comes to take her to another world.
A woman finds herself in a distorted reality, walking through a labyrinthine space. Seeking to leave this place, she faces and gives new meaning to her memories so she can move on.
2064. Cora, a Danish woman, finds an unfinished documentary in which Benjamim, her Brazilian father, attempted - fifty years earlier - to investigate the story of his own parents: Teo, who, afflicted by insanity, died when he was still a child, and Elenir, a mysterious woman he’d barely heard of. In the course of his investigation, Benjamim discovers that both characters are part of a complex family puzzle, filled with traumas and taboos, and starts seeing himself as an important piece in the puzzle. The footage found in Benjamim’s documentary is reorganized by his daughter, Cora, in an attempt to understand her family’s lost past.
A family waits the end of the world.
Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio suddenly vanishes, Santiago and Eugenio’s wife, join forces to look for him. What they discover is not what they set out to find, and their shared journey becomes a surprising and lighthearted meditation on friendship, love, and loyalty.
A professional photographer specialized in nude pictures dreams of respectability and the beautiful college student next window.
Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.
After farewell, the waiting. After the waiting, the return. After everything, all they wish for is to be together and one day is enough for them to wait for the next one.
Vinicius is a sound technician with ultra-sensitive hearing. The film narrates how he perceives the world through invisible noises, transforming the sound of the city into an intimate and isolating experience.
The choices we make while looking for a second chance might be irreversable.
Time doesn’t wait for us. Daniel works on his book while spending time in the countryside with his mother and sister. His writing, which has his the troubled relationship with his father as main subject, is composed of memories full of pain, longing and conflict.
A couple is arrested and tortured after taking part in a political demonstration, being sentenced to death.
Sofia has always been in love with the warm lamps that light up her small town, when they start being replaced by modern and bright LEDs she feels like a part of her is being taken away.
A camping trip for a group of friends turns into an unexpected nightmare when one of them encounters a mysterious stranger.