Outro Tempo

Days blur together for a maternity ward nurse who prays that a previous abortion was successful and that her late period will arrive in due time. Set among scenes of medical expertise, electricity blackouts, and camaraderie, this film feels lived-in, reminding us that life continues apace despite individual crises.

Aline looks back at her past, and from old printed pictures, she restores a love that had been left behind.

Nadia is a Haitian biologist living in Cuba, researching local wildlife. Until she receives a visit from deep waters, and the Cuban forest begins to speak in other languages. On that day, Haiti never seemed so far from Nadia.

While Paulo needs to return to Guinea Bissau, Edneia wants to stay in Brazil. The impossibility of the two of them being on the same continent announces the end of their relationship. The couple deals with the conflicts of their last days together, crossed by the winter of a city in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, surrounded by freshwater beaches and missing the sea.

At a Cuban high school, a group of girls who call themselves “Las Perdularias” find ways to deal with the absences on an island that is becoming increasingly empty.

Alone at a seaside inn on a beach in southern Brazil, Ícaro and Caio wake to the same morning over and over again, condemned to relive it forever.