Higor Gomes

"Protected by the mountains that surround the neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the city of Sabará, Brazil, a group of young people are having fun on their motorcycles on a dead-end viaduct known by the residents of the region as ramal ferroviário".

The screams of despair in an amusement park foreshadow the scandal that love is. Looping, by Maick Hannder, uses photographs to enact the conflict of gazes between the one who loves and the one who is loved. Are we also obsessed by this character who’s raised by affection to the status of entity?

In 1989, a chance meeting with his trans neighbour Joana gives teenager Carlos a glimpse into the possibility of queer futures. When the two meet again years later, a great friendship emerges across generations

Lia prepares for the future. Whatever it may be.

Jacqueline has what some people would call a strong personality. The teenage girl lives with her aunt and faces some problems at school. Her daily company is a bicycle with which she wanders through the neighborhood. One day, Jacqueline and her aunt hit the road, but things don’t go as expected

Maria José Novais Oliveira, a black woman, resident on the outskirts of Contagem, already in her 60s, has become a film actress, with an award-winning career in Brazil and internationally. This documentary recalls the image of a unique woman who marked Brazilian cinema in the 2010s.

"My Imaginary Africa" ​​is a first-person narrative of a singular-plural nature, bringing together the director's personal experience and concerns intertwined with the experiences, memories and experiments of other black women who revisit their past in search of self-definitions, in a sharing and creation of a common territory of (r)existence. The film is organized as an essayistic experiment of memories and subjective possibilities of refuge and resistance among quilombolas.