Denis Lopes

In this semi-autobiographical drama, filmmaker Diego Bauer plays a fictionalized version of himself confronting his past and present during a drastic weight-loss journey. As his body changes, he revisits memories of childhood, family, and social stigma, while questioning masculinity, desire, and belonging. Alongside this process, he reflects on his bisexuality and attraction to male and female bodies, exposing confusion, vulnerability, and self-acceptance. Blending fiction and confession, the film follows his attempt to reconcile who he was with who he is becoming in a society obsessed with norms and appearances.

Guilherme, a young riverside dweller, is forced to participate in a local race to help his community improve their lives by purchasing a generator to overcome the lack of energy.

Two friends meet to eat a bodó fish. The talk between them goes through the colors and smells of the houses in the heat of the city. Someone stays and someone leave.

When younger, Isabela buried a revolver in the backyard, with a promise to take revenge on her stepfather, who assaulted her mother. Years later she digs up the gun and goes in search of revenge.

“Paradoxo Orquídea Fantasma” is a surrealist short film, set in a retro futuristic time, that revolves around a weird murder and the consequences of it.