Fernando do Amaral Piccinini

In the 1930s, a blacksmith is accused of murdering his wife and becomes a hero and political leader.

An ambassador from an outer (and rich) space comes to visit a poor planet, where he ends up being kidnapped.

Without any sounds, dialogues and with unknown actors, the images are the focus of this film. Images that want to awake, to question determinant moments, state of a system's languages, the morality of deaths, the immobility, the silence, among other subjects. Shot at the height of the Brazilian military dictatorship, it is an affront to the most diverse types of repression in that period.

The past of a region that grew on the foundations of the faith, through the catechesis of the Jesuits who formed the theocratic kingdom of the Guarani.

The painter Tino, in professional and political crisis, receives a telegram from his mother-in-law, Selma, announcing her return from Europe. After his wife's death, Tino continues living with Selma, with whom he had ambiguous relations, which he now wants to sever. Weak at this impossible love, he asks the maid Enedina to lock him in his room. There, he revives memories through letters, notes and photographs. Selma's son João is waiting for her at the airport and dreams of loving fulfillment in his own mother's arms.