Mariana Melgaço

In the 1980s, the musical and futuristic teacher Clara Celeste arrives at a school surrounded by bullying problems driven by issues of ethnicity, sexuality, gender, physique, and behavior. With the teacher's help, a group of students are finally able to find their voice and experience empowerment, with the freedom to live as they wish. Despite this, prejudice still surrounds the school, always seeking to intimidate the students. To win this battle against intolerance and censorship, the group will need to stick together and believe in the power of change.

A mixture of corporate film, archive footage, documentary and making of, the film is an attempt of the scientists from the 'Brazilian Institute of Alternative and Secondary Importance Research' to fight the lack of funding, the closure of the institute and to keep their dreams alive.

Before It's Gone is a dramatic and dark-humored story about Almeida, a regular 30 year old man who discovers he's got only one week left to live. In this week, he has to make arrangements for his own death, such as inviting relatives and friends, getting his own death certificate and meeting with his ex-girlfriend.