Michel Joelsas

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Michel Joelsas

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An Unforgettable Year: Winter
Mabel is a girl who wants to spend her last moments before graduation traveling with her childhood friends. However, winter arrives early to disrupt her plans and she is forced to travel to a ski resort in Chile with her parents. But in this monochrome landscape, she faces her deepest feelings, finds new love and discovers her true identity.
My Drywall Cocoon
Virginia’s death during her 17th birthday shakes up a luxurious building complex. For most residents, it’s a passing tragedy. For her mother and her friends, it is the beginning of a transformation: the crack in their drywall cocoon.
The Silent Dog
Ariel
A mother struggles trying to avoid her son of becoming insane like his deceased father, but maybe it's already too late.
Eu Fico Loko
Mauro
The biography of the Brazilian YouTuber Christian Figueiredo.
The Second Mother
Fabinho
After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
Alice Especial, Part 1: The First Day of the Rest of My Life
Álvaro
Two years after her arrival in São Paulo, Alice continues her relationship with Nicholas and has begun to look for a place where they can live together. She has also launched a business that produces children's shows, and a stable life seems to be taking shape. But as she goes about the apartment search and shares in the loves and uncertainties of old and new friends, what she observes leaves her far less certain of her decisions and her future.
Extreme Happiness
Paulo - 13 anos
Shortly after World War II, the city of Rio de Janeiro experiments a period of great cultural, political and economic effervescence, when all the dreams – or nearly all – seem possible. In this exciting scenery of transformation, Paulo discovers love, friendship and sex through his childhood and adolescence in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Ópera do Mallandro
The short tells the story of a boy who, in his last recovery test at school, has the task of writing a text in 15 minutes. During the creative process, the boy embarks on a musical universe full of characters and myths from the 80's revived in four musical numbers packed with reinterpretations of Sérgio Mallandro's hits.
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Mauro
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
Sobre Girassóis
Nicolas
Sobre Girassóis has as its only filming set a condominium in São Paulo, whose main plot is the mourning and transformation derived from the unexpected death of a teenager from the residential complex. Virginia celebrates her 17th birthday in the penthouse where she lives with her parents and the drama unfolds in small narratives that expose the points of view of friends, Virginia's mother and the birthday girl.