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Home alone at night, Rita awaits the medicine which will finally get a pimple off her face...

In a small town, a teenage boy takes up skateboarding while his best friend keeps on recording videos for the internet.

Two people fight for survival in a captivity in which the only contact with the outside world is a small gap in the room where they are locked. A short film made for the "Noite de Kino 2023" project of the São Paulo International Short Film Festival - Curta Kinoforum.

Hammurabi tells the story of Vitão, a boy who works as a delivery boy. Outraged by the poor working conditions, Vitão decides to steal one of the deliveries from the Arab restaurant Hammurabi. This seemingly simple robbery triggers a chain reaction when a dealer receives a message to fetch packages of drugs from the same building as Vitão. Due to a simple typo, the dealer ends up going to Vitão’s apartment and putting the boy in the middle of a much bigger mess than he could have imagined.

During a therapy session, Lucio, a disturbed man, discusses a presence that has come to stalk him. Since then, Lucius began to deal with his constant desire to commit violent acts in a different way.

In an antique shop in downtown São Paulo, a love story from the past is revealed amid the daily life of the place.

In Xinjiang, in northwest China, an underground river brings life to the desert for the Uyghur people. An ancient construction whose waters flow from the depths of the earth to the lush grape fields, the Karez is known to those who benefit from it as the Mother River.

Gabriel is surprised by the arrival of Júlia, his ex-girlfriend, who goes to his house to pick up some belongings that were left there. For him it's a chance to try to talk to her, for her it's just a necessary evil. However, the conversation between the couple makes them both realize that many other immaterial things remain even after the end of a relationship. What to do with these things?

It's dawn. When Melina enters Café Insomnia, she doesn't imagine she's about to meet someone from her past again. Fate seems to bring them together again for a single night that will change the course of one of them forever.