The Time Of Waters
A humble farmer, attached to the memory of his father, struggles to remain on his farm despite the difficulties imposed by the cycle of the Amazon rivers. With the arrival of a great flood, he must decide whether to stay or abandon his house.
We are Two Abysses
Living alone in the highest mountains of Portugal, Carlos has spent years writing letters to his beloved late wife, suspended in a time that no longer exists. His solitary world is disrupted when a filmmaker, on a quest to find a mysterious lake, stumbles upon him. What begins as a chance encounter soon evolves into […]
The new year
I believe in laughter and tears as antidotes to hatred and terror. Good films constitute an international language, responding to humanity’s need for joy, compassion, and understanding. They are a means of dissipating the wave of anguish and fear that pervades the world today… If we could at least exchange films between nations, in large […]
We are Two Abysses
The Time Of Waters
No More History Without Us
Submerged in the sea of greenwashing that drowns them daily, two Amazonian filmmakers have decided to denounce, in this film manifesto, the entrails of the historical process of inventing and exploiting the forest as an inexhaustible Garden of Eden. Between Munich and Belém, they reveal how racism and prejudice, in Brazil and throughout the world, […]
Tesouro Natterer
Documentary feature about the Austrian naturalist Johann Natterer, a member of the Austrian Expedition that accompanied the Archduchess Leopoldina on her journey to Brazil in 1817. Among the members of the Austrian Expedition, he was the one who stayed the longest in Brazil: 18 years, which resulted in an impressive collection of over 50,000 objects, […]
Looking for the star
Xoel, a sound technician, arrives in the Serra da Estrela to record the sounds that are about to disappear from the highest peak in mainland Portugal. As the days go by, he discovers that tourism has silenced the signs of the past, making his quest absurd. Until a mysterious melody draws him to the top […]
From afar, every mountain is blue
Indigenist Fernando Schiavini revisits the places and villages he visited in the 1970s, a time when little was known about “deep Brazil”. The history of Brazilian indigenism told by those who lived it and helped write it through the language of solidarity.
Beautiful
For more than 20 years, Lindo hunted sea turtles on Príncipe Island. After an encounter with an unexpectedly docile turtle, he decided to change his life to start protecting the animal from other predators. He now delves into his past to find the clues that will launch a debate about the future of the island […]