As Flores

For five years, seven friends film their lives together and apart from each other. As time goes by, a film begins to emerge when this archive is revisited. A film shot through many hands, a reflection on creating images today.

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a petty chauffeur, 26 years younger.

David keeps seeing his ex in other people's faces.

Forget everything, or recover memory and remember. Let yourself fall and stop, or return to life and start again. Adrift, lost face-to-face, two women confront their fates. Is there not just one thing worth saving? Without hesitation, the desire to live, that rebellious fury that takes no heed of risks. And how do you save a world where poetry has disappeared?

A boy and a girl lie in bed, discussing the possibility of being inside a dream. The boy shares with her a recent nightmare he had, in which she stole his eye. The girl assures him that his fears are not real and that he is not inside a dream. Suddenly, everything goes black.

Christmas short films by the Dobra collective.