Millennium’s Turn
Maria and her friends’ bucolic childhood is haunted by an unexpected doubt. On television, they talked about the year 2000 bug and the chance that the world would end. So, how would they spend the days that remained, at a time when there was time? This is a small portrait of the last pre-internet childhoods […]
Aurora
Spring Tide
Women shellfish gatherers leave marks of their work in the mangroves, scars drawn on roots and branches. These cuts, silent witnesses to the collection of oysters, become a living calendar. For these women, each scar is a memory of the time that has passed, a count of the high tides since the last time they […]
Caught in the Net
Atom & Void
Loving the island
This was my destiny and I have to keep going until the end.” For more than 30 years, fisherman João Alfredo da Silva, 63, has dedicated his life to collecting waste from the Billings reservoir, one of the most important water reservoirs in São Paulo. Focusing on his work and personal life, the film explores […]
Big Bang Henda
Tearing down statues and symbols, building new memories, framing the destroyed landscape, writing letters to the future, reversing power dynamics: Big Bang Henda is a documentary-poetry-manifesto about the work of Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda. He takes us on a journey through his creations and reflections, which are at the forefront of anti-colonial thinking, urging […]
Camorim
Camorim is an urban quilombo located near Barra da Tijuca, an upper-middle class neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is made through the eyes of four quilombolas who reveal their desires, memories and important discoveries about the place where they live and resist.
Peas
A portrait of the people who work the land in Ervilha, a private plot left abandoned in one of the richest areas of Porto: Foz do Douro. Ervilha faces the same threat as our world: being destroyed in the name of progress. A new avenue is being planned that will destroy an area that feeds […]
Coast
One winter’s night, the sea once again threatens the apartment tower where two neighbors live. The next day, their children come to pressure them to leave everything behind.