Historias breves 18

A family with a long history (and many members) gathers around a table in a mansion in southern Portugal. The region has transformed from a depressed area into a thriving tourist destination. Kisses, hugs, and greetings quickly turn into complaints and reproaches surrounding the big issue: What should be done with Daddy’s house? It is a tempting piece of cake, laden with rich family memories. But progress cannot be stopped.

Flora Schvartzman is a ninety year-old single woman who has wanted to die since the day she was born. Distanced from her family, she gets in touch with them to organize her own death. Iair, her great-nephew, is the first one to take an interest in her and her heirless apartment.

A successful transgender actress decided to adopt a child with her lawyer husband . She juggles her career, marriage, and the adoption in pursuit of domestic happiness, all while trying to embrace her flaws and contradictions and also claim and defend her right to ambition, desire, and security. But that pursuit is eventually thwarted when they visit the actress's hometown.

Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.

A young Buenos Aires mother finds employment as a sex worker and struggles to live under the same laws that are supposed to protect her.

Two friends embark on a investigation to find the classmate who, fifteen years ago, unleashed a massacre at their institute.

A young couple. A luxurious hotel room. A wedding party.

Rafael is a poet who lives with his best friend, has a sad job in a gray office and a wornout relationship. The city is collapsing due to a heat wave that makes adults feel sick, but also gives them the opportunity to feel again.

A group of teenage swimmers prepares for a championship. Laura is the first of the group to awaken to her sexuality. Her friend Ana tries to accompany her in this complex process full of contradictions.