Bleed, Don't Die

A woman conceals an intimate secret in São Paulo, unaware that her sister is following her closely.

A driftless young woman discovers she's 11 weeks pregnant and has only 24 hours to make a consequential decision. This charming and meditative film examines how softly life moves, even in our most urgent moments.

Cora, a young language teacher, faces problems with one of her students and decides to take a sleeping pill. When she wakes up at the next morning, she notices her house is overturned, her bicycle is missing and a body was found in the Capibaribe River, in front of her house. She now finds herself between reality and fantasy, in a dilemma about her relationship with the crime.

After receiving a script that predicts her life, a young woman tracks down the writer to uncover the meaning of her existence.

Through conversations and interactions in the last moments of a couple in bed before falling asleep, we follow the day-to-day events and exchanges in the relationship.

In crisis, Teresa drags her long lost friend Elena out to the desert of Texas. Against the backdrop of anti-immigrant sentiment and domestic abuse, the two friends navigate crime and secrecy to find their way back to each other.

In order to invent a region, it is necessary to create its culture, preferably with the help of cinema. Inspired by the book and play “A Invenção do Nordeste”, this is a re-editing of Brazilian films essential to the foundation of the Northeastern imaginary.