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.
MESOkOSMOS
A human body moves in nature. Body kinetics mixed with creative contemplation based on the narrative syncope of an ecology of relationships, existentialism and philosophical thought converted into cinematographic language. How can we find in the image the codes that necessarily aggregate the relationship between the human-animal-ontological and nature-essence?
Migratory movements
Pedro Paniágua recently arrived in Brazil and faces a daily challenge to survive. He plans to bring his family when he adapts to the new country. When a swallow lands on his house, he is torn between the routine of looking for a job and trying to save the bird. Everywhere he goes, he encounters […]
Night in a forest
In the 15th century in Portugal, a group of monks built a wall around a forest and prevented women from entering. But the hands of the living can’t control everything: in the invisible world, where night reigns and only souls illuminate the forest, women have built their kingdom, without walls.
Our flyer would look like this
Me, my union friend, Petrobras and Brazil.
The Tuner of Silences
Mwanito has lived on a crane hunting reserve for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle and an employee. He’s been told that the rest of the world is dead, that all the roads are sad, that everyone is waiting for an excuse from God.
The Garden in Motion
Accompanied by two botanical guides, a group of hikers embarks on a journey through the stunning landscapes of the Arrábida Natural Park. As they explore the diverse species of this ecosystem, they observe a disturbing transformation in this place, not due to the natural course of time, but due to the orchestrated appropriation of human […]
Where to Plant a Home
The search for a life in contact with nature led Martin and Annika, a young couple, to build a house with their own hands. On their ever-changing land, there is always work. We see them building a creative studio and maintaining their vegetable garden. In the evenings, they socialize with their friends in the area. […]