Actor: Wallie Ruy

Tô Ryca 2

Selminha is back! Now wealthy and willing to pay generously for all her needs and desires. The problem is that a poor person’s happiness is brief: a namesake heir appears claiming that she is the legitimate inheritor and Selminha’s assets are frozen. Her only source of income becomes a minimum wage salary of R$30 per day. However, Selminha has already forgotten how to live the hardships of poverty. And worst, she is the patron of the Quintino community, and with her financial difficulties, the community also feels the squeeze.

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.

Helen

Helen lives in a cortiço with her grandmother, Mrs. Graça, who supports the family with informal jobs, such as selling skewers. Still very naive, her biggest concern is buying her grandmother a birthday present: a makeup kit. The girl is going to bend over backwards to get the money and her search will reveal the daily life of those living in tenements, outlining a collective story from the network of relations that the girl establishes.

Marie

Due to her father’s death, Marie returns to the countryside after 15 years. Her childhood friend, Estêvão, is leaving with her on a trip to Crato, her father’s hometown.