Marcela Santos

Filmed in Amazonas in 2021, on Estrada Fantasma BR-319, Transamazônica BR-230 and in the real city of Realidade, “Curupira and the Machine of Destiny” documents the encounter in the present time between a curupira and the incarnate ghost of Iracema, a character in the movie “Iracema – an amazon sex”. Open as wounds during the civic-military dictatorship that entangled Brazil in the cries of order and progress, the asphalt rebars that crisscross the country were built, destroyed and are now drowning in a process of reconstruction. Warm ruins of an addicted future. In love, Iracema ghost sets off at the crossroads of the straight roads of the Amazon to find Curupira and avenge the future.

The construction of a community goes far beyond its erected walls and masonry bricks: it lies in the everyday invention of the commonplace, of life shared in its struggles and victories. Stemming from this premise, this debut feature film (by the directors of Na Missão com Kadu) documents the daily life of the urban occupation Eliana Silva, in the city of Belo Horizonte, on the eve of the 2018 elections. Seen from the inside, the hard-won territory becomes a protagonist as much as its residents, as they talk about political activism, companionship, love. Along with the records and personal testimonies is the (re)invention of subjectivity through art, going up against the totalizing narratives that reduce their existence to a newspaper news story.

영화는 비교적 짧은 길이에도 불구하고 관객들이 현 브라질의 정치적 상황을 파악할 수 있도록 하는 뛰어남을 선보인다. 마치 영원한 밤이 이어지는 듯한 어느 저녁, 한 남자가 감옥을 나와 길을 걷고 한 무리의 사람들이 경찰 폭력을 당하게 된다.

After having invaded liquid, gaseous and solid substances, a strange voice takes possession of a woman's body and for the first time experiences the taste of something truly human. Together, the voice and the body seek for belonging and an identity of their own as they question their roles within society.

더 나은 삶을 꿈꾸는 안드레이아와 수감된 남편을 기다리며 아이를 키우는 레이트. 브라질 벨루오리존치의 슬럼가에 살고 있는 두 여성은 일상을 위협하는 마약 밀매의 환경에서 벗어나 비극적인 현실을 극복하기 위해 고군분투 중이다.