Within a society that reviews its values and paradigms, where power relations are put in check, the feminine and the masculine gain new meanings.
In Sao Paulo, Janaína and João take care of each other. She has epilepsy. He is in a relationship with a man who prefers to keep his distance. Above their lives floats the vague trauma of a mudslide that may have buried men and machines alike. Together, they try to protect their bodies from the evil that seems to spread like a fever.
Two sisters live in the same house with their husbands in bedrooms separated by a single wall. One of the sisters, Lígia, is still a virgin. Dissatisfied, she wants to dissolve the marriage and thinks about suicide. To prevent her sister’s suicide, Guida offers her own husband, Paulo, for one night.
Obstinate Daniel’s grumpiness is evident. He really doesn’t want to accompany his mother to an oncology conference. However, an unexpected meeting makes it an interesting weekend after all. Shot on grainy film stock, with camera work as uncompromising as Daniel is.
A photographer travels to São Paulo for his first solo exhibition and decides to stay in his now married, ex-girlfriend’s house.
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The city and its parking lots.
Professor Joubert
Paulete, the star of a daring theater group, is visited by his military brother-in-law, the young Fininha. A torrid relationship arises between the two, and now the soldier must deal with the prevailing repression during the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Luis Felipe
A decadent upper class family of mother and three grown-up children who lives in one of the richest neighborhoods of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is faced with the past as the long estranged father, who supposedly was the cause of the family's ruin, returns and accommodates himself in the house as if nothing had changed.
How much does urban space influence our interior space?
Martim
Lucia understands the world through sounds. She, as the people the surrounds her, struggles in the pursuit of relating with others. Her particular perspective, however, will turn that gap of communication even bigger.
Paulo
In a country house, the patient and her husband get involved with the young psychiatrist. The noises of the forest surround them.
A word or phrase whose meaning does not change whether spelt backwards or forwards. A young man loses everything he has in one day. He is fired from his job, kicked out of his hotel, betrayed by his colleagues and turned down by an old flame. We see this ordinary tale told backwards in time
Producer
High speed in the big city
High speed in the big city
