Mafê

Part of a film anthology "The Trash". The exhausting and monotonous daily routine that millions of citizens of contemporary capitalist society live, in a disorderly, disorganized, disoriented and disheveled way.

An experimental short film, shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, made by one person. Using recorded scenes and archival footage, the short presents an unorthodox narrative to explore the themes of self-identification, identity, gender expression and androgyny.

Emanuel, an obsessive faithful, believes himself to be the new messiah, sent to save everything and everyone from the greatest evil - sin.

Anonymous family materials are collected in second-hand bookstores throughout the city of São Paulo: letters and Super 8 films question the viewer about the relationship between image, memory and truth.

A group of people from different backgrounds plays the characters and figures that inspired them to be who they are.

"Dull and uneventful days in my owner's house make life seem calm." It's what Dona Vanuza's cat thinks, day after day in the matron's senile routine. A feeling that ends when they feel their owner's delirious grief starts taking over.