Soluços em Português (2023)

Silence In The Wind

When Biju goes against the will of the parents to get married, a secret is revealed - an identity that is borderline taboo and repugnant in his society.

Via Delle Rose 36

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Lamento

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Barren Lives

In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny.

Do Útero Ao Túmulo

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Incoherence

Recreation of the micro-story "AMORES LOUCOS", by JOSÉ REZENDE JR. (book "MINIMAL STORIES") . Two young people tired of life meet, due to the voices that guide them inside their minds.

A Crazy Town

In a quaint small town, there was a thunderstorm at night and a scorching sun the next day. This strange weather that had not been seen in a century made people doubt whether an earthquake would occur.

Pedreira de São Diogo

Men work in a quarry on the edge of a hill where a slum is located, of which they are residents. The slope is blown up, advancing to the land near the shacks. Slum dwellers are warned that new explosions can cause damage. The community decides to place itself on the slope, preventing another explosion; without attitude, the foreman gives up on blowing up the hill.

FurtaCor

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The Crow of Death

"The Crow of Death" is a short film inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven". The film show us a man disturbed by her lover's death and in the midst of his depression and alcoholic issues his mind begins to be no longer sane.

Antonio das Mortes

A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.

Formidable

Social comedy about 2 forty-somethings who're looking for a new purpose in life.

I'd Rather Not Say

The day begins with an exchange of favours. An interview, a football game, cigarettes after cigarettes. Routine fragments of those who live in an isolated space which labels and conditions life choices.

Minden

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Guga

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A Primavera Há de Chegar

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Lunchtime Dossers

In a modern world in which the events of Shakespeare’s stories are a reality a group of laborers knock off for lunch and react to the events of the world around them.

Playground

When Uri arrives at a rave in Montjuic, he can’t quite find his place. It’s his first time… but he’ll end up finding a way. A short film about integration at a hardcore rhythm.

Bhagwan Bharose

A story about two young, impressionable kids whose ideas about faith are constantly questioned and changed as their little world expands and takes into its fold, their country's fast-changing socio-political landscape.

Black God, White Devil

Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial violent region, Manuel and Rosa come under the influence and control of a series of frightening figures.

Over Here, Nothing New

Alex is a young adult from a social housing district. When he left his home in the morning, he faces a situation apparently out of the ordinary.

Death Is My Profession

"Death is My Profession" is about the struggle of people who have to accept any work offered to survive in a neglected society.

La niña tatuada

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Angústia

Experimental university short film about the dreams of the character Maria.

Circus of Life

A devout Muslim who writes, composes, and even records hymns praising the Prophet, Muhammad Rahat Khawaja is a respected elderly man who works in real estate and takes care of his bedridden wife. One day, he attends the wedding of a friend's son, where he inadvertently shows off a dance in front of his friends and family. His dance gets recorded and then uploaded to all social media platforms, which then also gets broadcasted on television. And chaos begins to ensue in his quiet life. Other than his wife, no one else in the world understands Rahat's circumstances. His daughters and neighbors criticize him, his friends turn their backs on him

Zoom Out

The attempt to make a short film about editing a short film about editing an argument between 2 friends during the editing of an incomplete short film about the decision to make a new short film from scratch or to re-upload an old short film.

Ausência

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Blue Dogs

The story of ‘blue dogs’ is about two watchful, loyal dogs of some supposed huge mobster, with his work in and around Mumbai. As the story unfolds, their lives of crime gets inexplicably tangled with bigotry, paranoia and delusions.

Tekuani

A young policeman, Eliseo, has an important task: to get rid of a body. However, a twist will make him to doubt carrying his task to completion, which could cost him his life.

No One Loves Anyone For More Than Two Years

"No one loves anyone for more than two years" is an adaptation of Nelson Rodrigues' work about five couples that live in Brazil in the early 60's, who are seen by the society as conventional people, but whose intimate lives turn out to be morally questionable.

Sociedade do Caos

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KM 100

Young African-Brazilian Miguel drives across the country in search of a long-lost relative to find out about his ancestry. However, a deeper understanding emerges through his encounters along the way.

Boi de Prata

Somewhere in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas (Álvaro Guimarães) decides to increase his patrimony even further by exploiting ores. To do this, he tries to appropriate the small site of Antônio Vaqueiro (José Marinho). Desperate, Antônio rushes to the aid of the gypsy healer Maria dos Remédios (Luiza Maranhão) and the poet and dreamer Tião Poeta (Lenicio Queirogo) to face the greed of Elói.

The Guns

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.

folklore: a fashion film.

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4 de Novembro: Fluminense, Vitória e Glória Eterna

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Verônica

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Cinema Novo

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

Ciclo de Vida

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TEMPLIS

Jack is a young adult, who, looking for an elixir of life for his grandfather, falls into the dimension of Templis, where a map shows him the location of such an elixir. However, there are some setbacks on his way....