Patrícia Cipriano

After being victim of a violent homophobic attack, a couple tries to overcome the trauma and move on.

From a peculiar narrative, “Esperanza” builds a subtle and simple allegory about the phenomenon of immigration of people from other South American countries to Brazil, in a relationship that reveals places of approximation, but also historical and dramaturgical spaces that point to the effects of a certain imperialism that surrounds such processes. All this concentrated in the suffocated atmosphere of the protagonist.

A pit bull attack in a suburban neighborhood and its tragic aftermath.

A portion of yuca triggers Rita's delusions and personal transformations.