Pedro José

Joana, a 30-year-old woman, returns to the rural settlement in Paraná where she spent her childhood to work as a teacher. Her homecoming compels her to confront long-buried memories, including the murder of her father by landowners amid the region’s conflict over land rights. Dance of the Fireflies is a poetic reflection on emotional landscapes, flickers of history, fragments of collective memory, and the social struggle in the countryside.

Juana and Carmela, two pregnant women, go out for help from the peripheral neighborhood where they live to hospitals in two cities on the border between Argentina and Brazil.