HAIKAI: HAIGAY

Experimental university short film about the dreams of the character Maria.

2009. Curitiba. University of Cinema. After the accidental death of Leandro, a student, inside the filming studio, Romero, the institution's janitor and Leandro's grandfather, after blaming the other 5 students for his grandson's death, kills, dismembers and buries the boys on the campus itself. This story becomes known nationwide as "the boys in pieces". 15 years later, another 6 students are producing a "true crime" documentary about this brutal crime and someone does not want this story to be told. New deaths begin to occur.

WORDS FROM HOME is a poetic documentary that explores the kinds of affection and identity in the portuguese language spoken in Brazil. Through migrants' stories and their reflections, the movie reveals how expressions, accents and memories form emotional and cultural bonds, showing how speaking connects us, differentiates us and, above all, brings us closer together.

A film about filmmaker Sal Galarça's departure from college in December 2023.

Experimental documentary that poetically exposes the reality of public transport in the city of Curitiba.

Inspired by the filmography and thought of the filmmaker Cecelia Condit, "cecelia" is an experimental short film that follows the hazy memories that torment the protagonist as an alter ego guides her toward a painful truth.

A surrealist queer experience. Sweder, one day as he prepares to cut a fish, feels somehow touched by the commercial that is playing on TV about the consumption of animal flesh and violence, so he decides to adopt the fish and treat it like a son.

Where's the girl? Can you hold her for me? I need her now.

After years spent apart from her mother, Gênesis feels lonelier than ever in the big city. She decides to rekindle this complicated relationship through a phone call that will change her life forever

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑠! A parody trailer for a trash 50s science fiction movie. Filmed in Super 8 for the 19th International Film Festival Super 8 in Curitiba, Brazil.

Nereu is an upper-middle class university student. He is a young gay man trapped in a time that is not his. Antônio is less idealistic.

A Video Essay on the work of director Franz Zwartjes.

Everything is possible in Pedro Ribas's head