Kassio Pires

The area around Catalan in Brazil’s state of Goiás is dry, very dry. Sandro’s life here is somewhat monotonous. He works in a fertiliser factory, goes swimming and spends his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles of landscapes. When Maicon, a man straight out of a Tom of Finland illustration, shows up in their small town and flirts with Ricardo, Sandro’s burgeoning feelings of jealousy set a change in motion.

Sr. Raposo is a staged documentary about the daily life of Acácio, who found out he was HIV+ in 1995.

Among images of a utopian everyday life, the Paranaíba river tries to understand why Anair is so afraid of its depths.