Rubén Valdés

In a small Brazilian seaside town we follow the efforts of Paula, who is pregnant of her third child, to build a pool in her humble beach house, so the family can enjoy the rest of their vacation. Financial difficulties will interrupt the work and reveal certain aspects of a tense family routine, full of small frustrations.

In 2014, Malian Toumani Kouyaté was urgently summoned to his native country to hear his grandfather tell his final story. Feeling death approaching, the experienced man decided to pass on the tradition.

In 2014, Malian Toumani Kouyaté was urgently summoned to his native country to hear his grandfather tell his final story. Feeling death approaching, the experienced man decided to pass on the tradition.

피라냐가 득실거리는 브라질 마을에 사는 나낭과 메우는 피할 방법이 도무지 보이지 않는 폭력 앞에서 스스로를 보호할 방법을 꿈꾸며 빠르게 사춘기로 접어든다. 어부의 그물에 의문의 시체가 걸리면서 두 소녀는 자신들을 보호해 줄 궁극적 수단이 무엇인지 깨닫는다.​​​ (2021년 제38회 부산국제단편영화제)

피라냐가 득실거리는 브라질 마을에 사는 나낭과 메우는 피할 방법이 도무지 보이지 않는 폭력 앞에서 스스로를 보호할 방법을 꿈꾸며 빠르게 사춘기로 접어든다. 어부의 그물에 의문의 시체가 걸리면서 두 소녀는 자신들을 보호해 줄 궁극적 수단이 무엇인지 깨닫는다.​​​ (2021년 제38회 부산국제단편영화제)

Akira is a hunter in a village where wolves disappeared 100 years ago. After he overspends community money on his obsessive hunts, his coleagues spurn him. He decides to go into the forest to kill a wolf.

The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial times that start to take over Brazil.

A young teacher sensitizes herself to the strange case of Gustavo, the "MUTE".

Silvia is an introspective young girl who is not interested in the daily routine between family and school. Everything abruptly changes when Artur arrives unexpectedly in her class, after being banned from several other schools. Silvia is amazed by the vitality of the boy, who actually suffers from a serious illness – hemophilia. The two immerse themselves in an intense and brief coexistence, interrupted by an accident in which Artur’s bleeds to death. Silvia gets sick and sees her life turn into a strange nightmare. The mourning gradually becomes an obsession, and obsession becomes a goal – Silvia will do anything to bring him back to life.

Nuria, 12, Fabio, 9, and their mother arrive on a small island in the middle of the Amazon, bordering Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They fled the Colombian armed conflict, in which their father disappeared. One day, he mysteriously reappears in their new home.

Marcelo, a 40-year-old dandy, has a memory like no other. Monologuing between coffee and hookups, he holds court on a wide range of topics: his status, his Catholic grandmother, and his unusual sexual fantasies. At times, he takes himself for Genghis Khan or poet-philosopher Novalis.

An artist penetrates him/herself with a cob of transgenic corn in the middle of a field, unawares that death is near. His/her sister Ana, who has been following him/her with his/her ashes, embarks on a journey into the Amazon forest that will become a quest as spiritual as it is erotic.

상파울루 빈곤 지역. 여기 네 명의 트랜스젠더가 있다. 이들은 각자의 자리에서 일상을 지킨다. 아이들을 가르치고 직장에 가거나 학교에 간다. 각자의 방식대로 나를 잃지 않으려 한다. 나의 존재는 연극과 노래로, 때로는 사진이나 말로 세상에 드러난다. 서로 다른 삶에서 나는 오늘도 나의 몸, 나의 정체성 그리고 내가 불리고자 하는 이름으로 살고 싶다. 일상이 곧 저항이 되는 내 몸은 정치적이다. (2018년 제23회 서울인권영화제)

In the shimmering heat of Brazil, 13-year-old Irene discovers a dark secret her father's been hiding: he has another family and even another daughter with the same name.

Another day in the life of an elderly couple in the suburbs.

The doorbell at the bridal shop rings.

With the closure of the sugar mill, the little town of Molasses is devastated, lifeless. Aldo and Monica form a young married couple that do not find a way to survive. By supporting each other, they try to save their world without loosing their faith.

For three days we follow the lives of several characters, each of them on a journey: from the everyday humdrum of their ordinary lives (the exhausting work shifts, being misunderstood by society, the homeless, the lonely, the yearning and the lack of any meaning for existence) to the place where they meet to recover something that the rationality of modern life cannot offer them: faith.

A young, attractive widow is protected from her vicious mother-in-law, by a male relative who practices Satanism, and lusts after the old woman's sexy adolescent granddaughter.

A group of Cuban fishermen work along the Cuba-US marine border area (Santa Cruz del Norte-Florida), and are involved with political issues and ongoing illegal migration. Yet they try to continue their normal fishermen life in their country.