Pedro Sá Earp

Despite having the scar that marks the domesticated, Juliana has to keep her freedom. Is romance the ultimate trap?

A documentary about the work of filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and film director Ruy Guerra. The audiovisual collage presents the director's trajectory, from his first experience with cinema up to his most recent thoughts on his work.

A mediados de los años 70, un hombre extraño llega a una tranquila ciudad de provincias. En un restaurante, y sin motivos aparentes, comienza a agredir a Claudio, un reconocido abogado. La comunidad apoya al abogado y el extraño es humillado y expulsado del lugar. Más tarde y camino a casa, Claudio y su mujer, Susana, son interceptados por el hombre extraño, quien está determinado a cobrarse una terrible venganza. El abogado toma entonces un camino sin retorno, de muerte, secretos y silencios.

Antes de entrar a una prestigiosa universidad americana, Gabriel Buchmann decide viajar por el mundo durante un año. Después de diez meses en la carretera, llega a Kenia decidido a descubrir el continente africano. Hasta que llega a la cima del Monte Mulanje, en Malawi, su último destino.

"In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz Ruffato. However, I ended up doing a feature film with many links to documentary. I wanted to know what made Brazilians want to emigrate to Portugal. I chose working with amateur actors and non-actors in both cities, so their own life stories and experiences could be in the film. I did the other way round from the writer. He found these people and made them characters of his book. I looked for people who had similar stories to those described in the book, and made them characters of my film. When I read the book, I was seduced by its "false documentary" characteristic. The book was all written as if it was the transcription of an oral interview the writer had done in Lisbon. I decided to keep this narrative in the film, by a narration with the main character talking to the camera. It's a film about emigration. About dreams and disappointments," says Barahona

Mina (Priscila Fantin) is arrested for defrauding the Social Security and beyond to defend the other inmates need to escape from the prison director of surveillance (Tuca Andrada). The crime involved a Senator (Antonio Calloni), trying in every way to prevent your participation to surface.

Present in nearly all cultures and used for many purposes, drums have unique shapes, sounds, names and accents in each region of the world. Behind this vast legacy are individuals who play them and are touched by these ancestral instruments. From the rare budimas used by Tonga people in Zambia to the large drums of the Chinese temples, from the religious festivals of Brazil to the rhythmic richness of the Arab World, these men and women keep this tradition alive.