Victor Bussolini

At the height of Brazil’s military dictatorship, a flight would change the fate of everyone on board. Among the passengers were a mother, her two young children, and militants from VAR-Palmares with a daring plan: to divert Flight 114 to Cuba. Caravelle 114 reconstructs, in fiction, the events behind the hijacking that defied the Brazilian dictatorship.

In Curitiba, a university professor begins researching the Spanish flu. As he gathers photographs, testimonies, and fragments of memory, the investigation starts to slip out of control. Amid immigrant voices, archival images, and echoes of a haunted city, the past returns as an enigma that refuses to fade.

5 stories of youth in Ponta Grossa, Paraná. 5 perspectives on the landscapes and characters of a city undergoing strange growth. For those who leave, those who return, and those who stay, the future is uncertain and the present is precious.