NÃO VAI EMBORA
Paradança is a village tucked away in the hills of Trás-os-Montes, Portugal. On July 4th, 1987, a family gathered in the old house. In 2025, the house stands silent, overtaken by time. In forty years, the village has lost sixty percent of its people. This film is a portrait of a family and a way […]
GUERREIROS PLANTADOS (Warriors Planted)
After their lands were flooded by the Itaparica Dam, the Pankará people saw part of their history disappear beneath the waters. Years later, moved by the memory and strength of their ancestors, the Pankará return to the caatinga of the Pernambuco hinterland to reclaim the land that has always belonged to them. Through stories, rituals, […]
FLORESTA DO FIM DO MUNDO
Blending speculative fiction with the cosmogeny of the Amazonian Baniwa people, the film tells the story of Suely, an Indigenous woman who divides her days between a small apartment in a large Brazilian city and dreams in which she communicates with a forest. Between romantic dances in a suburban bar, the heavy sounds of machines […]
DOCE AMANHÃ (Sweet Tomorrow)
On an island untouched by humankind, an orangutan is born and grows, witnessing the rise, transformation, and fall of its home. Now the leader of its family, it fights for survival and its legacy, defying the elements to secure a prosperous future for its own.
DIÁRIO DE LÁ (Diary From There)
In Melgaço, a transmission tower may be built, or it may not. On the horizon, the wind farms of Alto Minho. A vast landscape where everything and nothing changes, according to the eyes and the memories of its inhabitants. Recording these stories in a film diary woven from ephemeral encounters, three Brazilians follow literal and […]
BAJO EL POLVO, NUESTRA TIERRA (Beneath The Dust, Our Land)
Across the cracked fields of Goiás, in the geographic heart of Brazil, Sister María Inés de Oliveira drives slowly in her old car, raising a cloud of dust behind her. She goes from house to house, listening to farming families who have lost what were once fertile lands, devoured by the expansion of a major […]
JARDIM ANCESTRAL (Ancestral Garden)
Among roots, trunks, and branches, a father and son journey in search of a tree that speaks of time and memory. Ancestral Garden is a poetic short film about ancestry, resistance, and reconnection. Set in Recife — home to the largest concentration of Baobab trees outside Africa — the story intertwines different generations of the […]
ALGUMAS COISAS QUE ACONTECEM AO LADO DE UM RIO (A Few Things Happening By A River)
A group of teenagers floats down the river, pretending to be dead for social media. One of them drifts away unnoticed. As the body floats downstream, it passes overworked delivery workers, restless holidaymakers, and distracted families, each too caught up in their own absurd microcosms to see the quiet tragedy passing by.
O ANJO DA GUARDA (The Weather Man)
In the city of Guarda, near Serra da Estrela, lives Vítor Baia, the Weather Man. Vítor Baia makes weather forecasts for mountaineers who prefer a method he developed himself to other more sophisticated ones. Victor Baia, a native and resident of Guarda, is a great expert on Serra da Estrela and has been mountaineering since […]
O PRÓXIMO PRINCÍPIO (The Next Beginning)
An ordinary late afternoon. A group of friends talk, laugh, live. A PET bottle runs empty. Someone, without a word, walks to the yellow recycling bin and drops it in. The sound of plastic hitting metal echoes for a moment. Then dark. Silence. It seems like an end. Time passes. The truck arrives. The bottle […]