Guga Patriota

An art collective experiments with ways to breach time and space and enter the infinity within the possible. But the instant is fleeting, and these moments quickly vanish. They must return to the political reality to which they are chained – bills to pay, a home to keep, jobs to hold, a possible play to produce.

Returning early from his vacation after the Carnival period to investigate the murder of a young French tourist, Breno Wanderley is faced with possible reflections of his own history from which he cannot escape. Between Ash Wednesday and post-Carnival Sunday, Breno tries to unravel the crime and sees in his son, also called Breno, a chance to reinvent himself in a broken and sullen city.​

Eleutério and Rafaela's marriage is tested when she wins a contest to meet Sydartha, a soap opera heartthrob. The romantic teacher confuses fiction and reality when she meets her idol.

“I was really young when I was first raped. I thought of telling this story someday, the story behind this picture. I lacked the courage. If the film could speak for me, then, I could.”

Three men from the past cross into the present to reveal the invisible marks of Brazilian history. Between memory, fantasy, and poetry, The Secret Life of My Three Men proposes a reckoning with the violence that shaped us and the possibility of another future.

When I first moved in with friends, it became a habit to have people over all the time.

Cecília, a successful young model, returns to Recife, her hometown, to spend Christmas with her mother. One night, a neighbour she hadn’t seen for a long time, João, shows her a bottle with a mysterious and intoxicating green substance. Cecília begins to fall in love with João, but also discovers he is involved in a secret cult around the figure of Salomé, the luxurious biblical princess.

After taking the wrong bus, the repressed Pedro gets lost in the city and has his cell phone stolen. The course of his day changes when he meets another guy. Into the night, he experiences new sensations and discovers more about himself.

Akin is a dedicated Cuban doctor working in Brazil for the Mais Medicos/More Doctors programme in 2018. From his daily routine in an indigenous community to his intimate moments with Érica and Sérgio, his relationship with Brazil gets deeper and stronger. With the election of Jair Bolsonaro, the cooperation between the two countries ends abruptly. He must make a decision: return to Cuba and abandon the relationships he has been cultivating or stay and reinvent himself without being able to practice medicine.

Sérgio is determined to take over his family's construction company to pursue a long-buried dream. But when he uncovers a hidden chapter from his father's past, his ambitions are shaken, forcing him to confront the man he has truly become.