Clara Bressane

Two crocheters face off in an endurance showdown for the grand prize. With every beer they finish, a new pull tab is woven into their crochet work, turning the competition into a battle to see who can drink, crochet, and endure until the very end.

In the rural interior of Paraná, an elderly worker, ravaged by hunger, follows the trail of a mysterious black dog that hunts to survive.

A light leads the way, a book hides secrets.

A blood-soaked crime scene: a young man's body is found hours after meeting his favorite writer.

Maria eagerly awaits a meeting.

From a peculiar narrative, “Esperanza” builds a subtle and simple allegory about the phenomenon of immigration of people from other South American countries to Brazil, in a relationship that reveals places of approximation, but also historical and dramaturgical spaces that point to the effects of a certain imperialism that surrounds such processes. All this concentrated in the suffocated atmosphere of the protagonist.

Bethany is a secretary in an agency of private detectives and needs to face her boss, Mr. Aguiar, a detective as competent as he is dramatic... Maybe not so competent.