Fábio
La noche de Beagá es una cápsula del tiempo que relativiza el paso, desdibuja los sentidos y reenfoca las definiciones del futuro en la vida del joven Júnior — que no ve la hora de emanciparse de absolutamente todo.
In 2011, during a blackout in an outskirt neighborhood’s street, a family – surrounded by candles that light conversations and thoughts – awaits the return of electricity. Now, ten years later, the light tries to impose its place towards the shadows of memory.
Mestre Silva
Through boxing Jessica pursue to overcome old traumas.
Padre
Yeda, the green-faced woman, sells homemade bread to support the house where she lives with her sick husband. Through the context of green-faced people, we know the reality of those who live on the fringes of a purple-faced society.
Marta wants to give herself a chance to live a new life, in a new city.
Beto
Los vecinos del pueblo de Contagem, cerca de Belo Horizonte, sueñan con tener una vida mejor. Puede que los de mayor edad ya se han rendido. Las mujeres están dispuestas a trabajar de manera honrada, pero los hombres suelen ser vagos que tratan de llegar a lo que ellos llaman "El corazón del mundo" a través de acciones criminales. Este documental sigue la vida de sus vecinos y de sus quehaceres diarios.
Jairo
In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she adapts to her new life, meeting people and discovering new horizons, trying to overcome her past.
Bia just turned eighteen. The end of the year is coming and also the ACTs. People at school and Bia’s parents are pressuring her to decide which graduation she will apply for. Bia doesn’t want to do anything.
With its obvious simplicity, the film’s title happens to set the mood of the film, or at least its guiding principle: staying anchored in everyday life. More precisely, the life of Maria José and Norberto, who have been married for 35 years and who live in Contagem, in the suburbs of Belo Horizonte. Their marriage is on the rocks, which leads their two sons to also wonder about the future of their own relationships with their wives. The story is quite ordinary. How can one capture such an impercep- tible shift in the heart of the banality of things, only made more noticeable by a crisis? Filming his own family, his own parents, his brother and himself, André Novais Oliveira has chosen to take his time. He shots long sequences, leaving enough time for the fictional situations on which he puts his characters to grow and unfold. Then he uses wide frames to linger on more mundane, concrete or at times farcical moments: eating an orange, cooking, watching television...
