Rica Saito

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Neirud died shrouded in mystery, leaving behind no trace of her past. Confronting family secrets, the filmmaker pieces together the life of her enigmatic aunt, who toured Brazil as a wrestler in an underground all-female circus troupe throughout the 60s and 80s. As she investigates Neirud's controversial ring persona, Gorilla Woman, the filmmaker uncovers a taboo-breaking love story, revealing the surprising nature of Neirud's role in her own family.

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Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentarian Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2012 and a vast amount of archive footage, this film offers a general look at Coutinho's work and testifies how the filmmaker’s thinking still stand the test of time to this day and age.

A single and apparently humdrum scene in which various days all blend into one. A couple is having breakfast in the kitchen. He is older, greyer, more anguished than she, who is light, pretty and giddy. A morning like any other, were it not for the secret fact that it would be their last together.

A tragicomic illustration of the absurdity of contemporary politics, brought into painfully sharp focus in a single unplanned shot. An interview on the second round of the Brazilian general elections ends up unveiling all the anger, prejudice and incommunicability in a portrait of a fissured society. Are we still listening to each other?

"The Mirror of AnA", directed by Jessica Candal, tells of the director-character's investigation into her condition as a woman. Through mirroring herself in intimate people, such as her grandmother, mother, husband, friends and the daughter of one of them, her own identity is both forged and revealed.

Rescue of the work and the image of Mario Rocha, pop musician from the time of tropicalists. Owner of a visceral work, his compositions disclosed in alternative circuits through "happenings" on the street largely filmed in super 8 by his friend Hélvio Bastos. The artist is remembered by the critic Carlos Callado, the singer, Wanderléa - who guards his very rare unique album, "The Lates' -, friends and family. His originality inspired the creation of a living museum and a fan club, made up of many young people who discuss the importance of this legendary musician.