Verde Oliva

Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.

Due to a rare disease, a child grows a beard. He likes being himself but resents people staring at him.

Four young people travel to a seaside town looking for fun. After a night of drunkenness, funny games and fooling around, they discover a pink and viscous goop that inexplicably seduces them. The fun is over, and one by one they begin to die.

Being sixteen it´s easy. Being sixteen and have to go to school every day, it´s not. It’s even harder being sixteen and have to go to school and fall in love with Fernando, the boy from the other class. It’s easy to be Jaqueline. But it sucks being Jaqueline and know Fernando doesn’t care at all.

Janco and Samuel own a detective agency, in school. While investigating the disappearance of a volleyball, Janco tries to approach Dariana, the girl he is in love with.

Eric is in love with his best friend Eduarda. But Michel is quicker and gets her heart first. At the kart tracks, Eric has a chance to beat his opponent in a wild competition. Love and speed, love for speed. Those were the Thunder Days.

Bruna makes out with Andre before his trip to the beach. After that, she spends the rest of the day with her best friend Jota.

“Almost Absent” ultimately refers to the gestures of a generation of films that have originated and developed amid the contexts and aesthetic restrictions of the pandemic. While elaborating these elements, the film also explores how our screen-mediated reality affects our way of looking at the world, and in what way this gaze allows us to reflect upon cinema.

After an ecstatic drunken party, a couple wakes up without any recollection of the events of the previous night. When they find traces of a possible hit and run on the car's bumper, they come to believe they may have committed murder.