The Messenger

Dora is a German-raised teenager visiting her enigmatic Brazilian grandmother for the first time. While trying to return to Germany at all costs, she discovers the incredible history behind the women of her family.

Salvador, 1984. After twenty years of dictatorship, people go to the streets to ask for general elections. This will be a year of transformations for the country and the young Caio.

A mother gives her daughter a box full of old, coloured little vinyl records. The daughter may listen to them, but she should never, ever, play the green one.

A middle-class family living in a house filled with superfluous electronic appliances see the arrival of a new item, a 29" TV-set.

In Serra do Ramalho, in the drylands of Bahia, Milla, Gilmar and Igor will form an unconventional family that shuns convention and instead embraces love in all its dazzling iterations.

A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine '60s drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.

A small-scale romantic love story, shot with a digital camera in black & white and in a documentary style. We follow the conversation between two lovers, each on a different side of the world; he is in Recife, she is in Kyiv. On one side is dark, on the other light, but both experience the same emotions and hence feel nearness and contact.

In the 70s, a dam and a hydroelectric plant were built in Sobradinho. The government at the time, which was commanded by the military regime, thought that that small town, in the northeast hinterland, would be ideal for the construction, because there would be no resistance from the locals. So, 73.000 people were displaced - it is one of the biggest forced migrations in the history of Brazil. Four cities and dozens of villages submerged. Mrs. Pequenita was the only inhabitant to ever return; there, she lives in a ghost town. She receives the visit of three social agents, who own old videos and photos of the region.

Two young artists leave the capital to see an old ritual that depicts the runaway slaves, in the interior of Brazil. There, they are involved with the celebration in an unexpected way.

Pilão Arcado was a Brazilian city. Dona Pequenita never left the place where she was born. From a past submerged by the waters of the dam what remains are words, songs, ruins loaded with memories.

Tião, 5 years old, seeks to understand the events involving his family at that time. Including his mother's illness that takes her away from him.

Tinho meets Stephanie. A friendship begins.