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Lose threads intertwining are like paths converging, stories connecting, individuals realizing their better selves with one another. The body as a sculpture in motion.

After the sale of the Blessed school, Vitor tries to start his life over again and takes a vacation at his cousin's house. Arriving there, Vitor mysteriously disappears without leaving any trace. The residents of the house, worried, decide to look for their friend.

The body of a dead transgender woman is being prepared by others trans people for the burial. Later it is delivered to the original family, that decides to bury her as a man. A trans person cortege moves toward the wake to reclaim the deceased’s built identity.

During the end-of-semester week, the teachers meet to hold the class council.

A stop-motion short film about a child learning to respect the collective.

Ariel Kuaray Ortega returns to his hometown to visit his grandfather in a region of Brazil bordering Argentina. He wants to finally hear the full story of Canuto, a fellow villager who turned into a jaguar and then died a tragic death. A plan soon arises to make a film about the mysterious Canuto, with the villagers playing all the roles.

O Aleijadinho, a study of the work of Antonio Francisco Lisboa, the architect whose cathedral de Andrade had assisted in the restoration of more than 20 years earlier. de Andrade dedicated the film to his father, who had sent him on the expedition.

Amid technological transformations and the disappearance of video rental stores, Gilberto Petruche keeps Charada alive, the last rental shop in the outskirts of São Paulo. With more than 30 years of history, the place is a symbol of resistance and now also operates as a cultural center.

The image of a body that is not in front of the camera. The absence of an image. The presence of a body. The materiality of a dream that is impossible to remember when one wakes up. Someone falls in love. Someone searches for words. Someone moves. Someone falls, or flies. Everyone dances.

In January 1990, at the age of 33, the artist José Leonilson starts registering an intimate journal in a tape recorder. His views on events that shook both Brazil, such as the resignation of former president Collor, and overseas, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, permeate his confessions. He also talks about his impressions on the various movies he used to watch. The records of this sensitive artist in tune with modern life did not intend, at first, anything more than register the harmony that existed between his life and his peculiar and intimate work. However, J.L. suffers the unexpected blow of the discovery that he himself is HIV positive. The uncertainty and urgency in his life begin to permeate his reports.

Lelê deals with the loss of someone close, navigating through pain and grief until finding new meaning and peace.

The process of depersonalization maintains a dialogue with the objectification of the body, a sort of thingified flesh, clothed in animosity. In an epiphanic act, the sutures reveal themselves as the reflection of this gaze upon its own spilled fluids and transcend into an internal soup. It is the stream of consciousness in its purest form. It is the raw and the bare. It is the visceral nature of facts. It is the merging of worlds. It is the flesh in turmoil.

5 stories of youth in Ponta Grossa, Paraná. 5 perspectives on the landscapes and characters of a city undergoing strange growth. For those who leave, those who return, and those who stay, the future is uncertain and the present is precious.

Documentary about Adoniran Barbosa, in which any resemblance to reality will be mere coincidence.

Leticia is lost in time. Her nightly, melancholic routine reveals her wild, dark and bloody state of mind. When she meets Gabriela at a party and brings her to her house, strange things begin to take place in her old manor. One of the two will never leave that apartment. This is a film about tensions, memories and social dominations.

A following deceit leads Giovanna to dwell over memories from her past relationship.

Two friends are looking for a quiet place where they can rest awhile. Soon they find the town they'd chosen to go is far from quiet. In fact, it's ruled by outlaws. And one of them is mistaken for the "Avenging Gunman", defender of the law.

Yellow Cow and her friends Guaraná, Estela, and Valdo, work together to show Mrs Cloud that many problems can be solved when we are willing to talk it out.

These men are all dripping in sweat, but it doesn't matter.

Pornography is a film-manifesto. An outburst against the summary execution of Brazilian cinema. It is simple and straightforward: explicit sex, on-screen text, National Anthem.

A meeting between two friends and an unknown attraction. The borderline between the real and the imagined, the inside and outside, friendship and love, one body and another. Prism is the story of a connection between surfaces that being in touch wakes the shattered power of feelings.

Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the inspiration sources for his movies, such as Platform, Still Life and A Touch of Sin. The film is the memory of a filmmaker and of a country in convulsion, China, which reveals itself little by little.

In the 1970s, "festivals" were incredibly popular in Brazil, as they were recorded before a live studio audience, and usually featured a number of elimination rounds. They also formed the springboard for the career of many a big-name stars, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Roberto Carlos and Gilberto Gil. Appearing on such a program was no cakewalk, however: audiences could be as wild in their condemnation as in their appreciation of an artist. Extensive archive footage (including performances and behind-the-scenes interviews) from the turbulent final evening of the Festival of Brazilian Popular Music 1967 paints a fascinating picture, not only of the transformation of Brazilian music into real "festival" music, but also of a society starting to buck against the yoke of military rule.

Victor and João were in love with each other as teenagers, but didn’t really know it. Reunited by chance six years later, they’ll spend one night together to find out what has changed and where they’ll go from now.

A teenager finds out his mother is having an affair, but doesn't tell anyone. His mind wanders, but his feet are chained to the soil.

Retired and facing financial problems, Sara opens a stall to make some cash and get rid of all the belongings she has accumulated throughout her life, making up stories so she doesn't have to take anything back to her lonely home.

At the end of a tough workweek an assistant congressman and his friend go to an abandoned room in the Capitol building to relax and smoke a joint. While trying to unwind the assistant congressman complains about his job. He is doing all he can to cover up his boss' scandalous sex affair but nothing seems to be working. "Things can't get any worse", he proclaims. . . but they do!

Nurse Cacilda meets factory worker Altino and they begin a romance, but upon discovering she is being deceived, Cacilda plots to kidnap and kill Sonia, his six-year-old daughter. Based on a true story.

In a roadside store, a man lives in peace with their pets. In the basement, the mice steal food, but not enough to hurt the business. The arrival of a stranger mouse ends the grocery harmony.

Igor Guimarães plays the eccentric lawyer Paloma in a chaotic office environment. The narrative focuses on his peculiar relationship with the team of interns and the absurd situations that occur during the workday.

“Look closely at the mountains!”: the phrase was coined by artist Manfredo de Souzanetto during Brazil’s years of dictatorhsip. Mining activities were destroying the environment in the state of Minas Gerais in the south west of the country. Through editing, Ana Vaz draws parallels between this region and the very distant Nord-Pas-de-Calais in northern France, also marked by over three centuries of mining. On one side, eroded mountains plague its inhabitants with deadly landslides. Hollow and gutted, these mountains become the receptacles of a ghostly memory. On the other side, in France, mining waste stacks become mountains and reservoirs of biodiversity, where the frontier between nature and technology is now indiscernible.

A couple is taken by surprise when a supernatural phenomenon happens in their home. Not knowing what to do, terror and panic quickly install themselves in their minds.

Two girls who once loved each other meet in the field. Throughout the conversation, they go through memories, emotions, sensations, until they can finally let go. The release of a place that no longer belongs to you and that you no longer belong in it.

A drama about double personality

A short essay on our inner demons. Baiestorf recreates the nightmare narrated by teenagers from various parts of the world, who have this dream on a recurring basis.

The movie shows a group of italian imigrants in a ship going to São Paulo in the end of the century XIX. They tell about their fears and expectatives in the future new life.

The short film depicts the life of a boy who is constantly sexually abused by his father. Leonardo Miggiorin brilliantly plays the role of this boy, who belongs to a poor and unstructured family.

Jorge, a frustrated funeral home office boy, falls in love with a name: Laissa Golf, and deducing that such a name can only be a hot one, he travels through the city of Alvorada in search of that great love or the romantic disappointment of n ° 1,347.

Two factory workers from the outskirts of São Paulo make a trip to a bathhouse close to the city.