Lucas de Barros

When moving to a new town, Lucas makes a new friend who helps him forget his problems. But forgetting may not be the best way to deal with problems.

To commemorate the anniversary of the city where he lives, a theater director must stage a play on a great actress from the past that will bring to mind German colonization in the nineteenth century. Resolved he will win the part as main character, the actor who is to play the part of colonizer subverts the director?s script, and introduces scenes on ethnocide and Nazism into the text. These subjects are even today to be avoided in that prosperous valley in the south of Brazil. His attitude obliges the director to stage a play different from the one that had been written for the occasion.

A metalinguistic film. A group of friends talk about making a film. As long as they talk, the film starts to happen.

When the tomb of Thomas John Cardell Martyn, founder of Newsweek magazine, is found in a small town in the interior of southern Brazil, a series of mysteries, secrets, gaps and suspicions is raised about his past as a spy.

The raise and fall of a love story, in a mockery review of the Cinema Marginal [Marginal Cinema] from Brazil.