The Separation

The first kiss in film.

A young woman gets lost in the depths of her unconscious until the thin line between the images of her dreams and the memories of her impersonal life shakes her truth.

A group of four friends come together to write a screenplay about four screenwriters writing a screenplay (and so on) during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil. During the meeting, they exchange experiences and opinions on art as a form of resistance, for "Construção" is a metalinguistic ode to cinema.

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.