Acting
In a grocery store, a cashier named Samanta falls in love with a regular customer. She tries to get closer to the girl during each encounter, while also juggling her mother's demands and the responsibilities of her job.
In a small town, a teenage boy takes up skateboarding while his best friend keeps on recording videos for the internet.
Two people fight for survival in a captivity in which the only contact with the outside world is a small gap in the room where they are locked. A short film made for the "Noite de Kino 2023" project of the São Paulo International Short Film Festival - Curta Kinoforum.
Three women watch over a dead young woman in the early hours of dawn. As they talk, they reflect on their lives and a dream about a mysterious shipwrecked sailor. As the night progresses, the boundaries between reality and fantasy begin to disintegrate.
In Anamnese, we follow the memories of a young filmmaker, who recalls her trip to a village in northeastern China. In this village, which wants to preserve the folk culture of the Korean ethnic group in China, she learns more about connections, preservation, harmony and bonding.
Hammurabi tells the story of Vitão, a boy who works as a delivery boy. Outraged by the poor working conditions, Vitão decides to steal one of the deliveries from the Arab restaurant Hammurabi. This seemingly simple robbery triggers a chain reaction when a dealer receives a message to fetch packages of drugs from the same building as Vitão. Due to a simple typo, the dealer ends up going to Vitão’s apartment and putting the boy in the middle of a much bigger mess than he could have imagined.
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During a therapy session, Lucio, a disturbed man, discusses a presence that has come to stalk him. Since then, Lucius began to deal with his constant desire to commit violent acts in a different way.
Two pig farmers kill boys in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil. During a visit to the city, they meet a young paçoca seller and offer him a job at the pigsty.
On the industrial outskirts of São Paulo’s ABC region, Maria Domingas, an exhausted factory worker, breaks away from her routine for the first time: instead of going straight home, she stops at a bar. There, under the weight of the silence and oppression of her time, an encounter opens a mysterious window to tenderness and humanity in her life.
After a flying saucer containing all the stories of humanity crashes in his backyard, a young artist seeks help to interpret its messages.
Gabriel is surprised by the arrival of Júlia, his ex-girlfriend, who goes to his house to pick up some belongings that were left there. For him it's a chance to try to talk to her, for her it's just a necessary evil. However, the conversation between the couple makes them both realize that many other immaterial things remain even after the end of a relationship. What to do with these things?
It's dawn. When Melina enters Café Insomnia, she doesn't imagine she's about to meet someone from her past again. Fate seems to bring them together again for a single night that will change the course of one of them forever.
