Ana Johann

Short documentary about a Brazilian radio queen.

Maria is one of the many women who were born without knowing their place. She tries to move between the mansion where she lives with her husband and a third-class hotel, her refuge. Things are piling up, trapping her in a certain deadline to take a decision. Leaving or staying?

I take a phone call. The caller says he wants to make a movie about his own life because there are many similarities to two famous Brazilian country music singers. The character Dirceu Cielinski became a paraplegic when he was 17 and could walk again after a year. When we first met him, he was an accordion player and his dream was to make his living from music. The main idea is to follow his life for three years and insert the film shooting process in the documentary.

Renata lives isolated in the countryside with her teenage daughter and her husband, conceiving fear as a common feeling. The arrival of a stranger awakens in her the desire for all that was asleep.

What look us consists in objects and stories from some inhabitants of Cruz Machado city - that one where it's only possible to arrive if you are really willing to go there. Among the inhabitants, there is the director, who goes back to her native town in search to look at others and herself in a very sensitive moment of her life, her break-up after a 20-year relationship.