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Two girls at home on their living room sofa. They watch something on the TV screen: a man appears, he's looking up, there's a cigar in his mouth. He's wearing glasses, with smoked lenses, a visor on his head, a blue visor. White letters appear on the black background. He blinks. White letters appear, he looks down. He draws smoke, takes a drag. Pulls the cigar out of his mouth. Smoke comes out. He keeps looking up.
Two ex-lovers meet and realize life is underwhelming.
A African man lives a difficult life, as so many Africans do. As usual, he catches two buses to go to work, but something unusual happens.
"Women will not be allowed to practice sports incompatible with the conditions of their nature". The decree in force between 1941 and 1983 used to prohibit women from playing football. Decades later, women's football's struggle for space remains a challenge. In the midst of so many stories, “Made in Várzea” shows the lowland games played by women, following the daily lives of two players with very different lives, but with a passion for football as a common link. Yolanda, bus driver and Flávia, beautician, circumvent sexism using sport as a form of liberation.
A view of rising dependence to credits in the shadow of a overgrowing economical crisis in a consumers society.
From the tiny sewing studio in Tires Prison (Portugal) Vicky, Yau and Iracy hand-sew designer La.Ga handbags. Mothers separated from their children and families, imprisoned in a foreign country that they only get to know behind thick bars. In a mix of languages, we understand that time spent in this "factory" simply flies but in the cells the daily struggle goes on. Just like La.Ga, women also come out of prisons with a stamp. Can designer objects, sold from New York to Tokyo, contribute towards changing the lives of the women who produce them behind bars? In Venezuela we meet Yanetzi, an ex-inmate from Tires, now working 9 to 5 in an office. At night that she creates the bags that her son will sell in the streets of Caracas the following day. Design Behind Bars is an intimate portrait of the women's feelings towards life inside and outside the confines and how working with design changed them.
In this haunting work, Santos creates an elegiac mood that suggests both intimacy and loss. Based on a poem by Sandra Penna, which was inspired by a children's song about a couple who has broken up, this tape overturns the sunny idealism and rhymes typically found in children's songs. Contradictory feelings, imperfect remembrances and the inaccuracy of time are suggested by the poignant collage of home movies, voiceover, and music.
The faces of ten women, actual mothers of [pH2]: estado de teatro’s members, expand the face of Helena Failure and enact the misfortunes that tackled her life.
Documentary about the Therapeutic Theatre Group of Julio de Matos' Psychiatric Hospital.
The city of Porto is the second largest city in Portugal. It is known for being a Catholic and conservative city. This year, the mayor ordered a large Christmas tree. Meanwhile, on a street in the downtown area...
By the end of an incredible life full of adventure, misfortune and surreal accomplishments, a self-taught drummer, exalted to jazz legend among the community for having introduced to the stage dozens of inexperienced young people acclaimed today in the music industry, suffers a stroke. At first, half of his body is paralysed, but his stubbornness is overpowering. The mission is ambitious: to regain full movement, play the drums once again, introduce one last singer and return to Paris, where he played with Nina Simone and lived under a bridge.
* Film always without authorization * Film with the camera that your aunt will no longer use * Film on dark streets with the supervision of other friends * Film what is still alive in your city
Image: Niterói, Girl who reads books, shopping plaza and its pleasures, Rio / Niterói bridge, Guanabara waters
