Meridiano

An adult content creator rents an isolated house with a small group of collaborators to shoot a Halloween special and expand her online reach. Between erotic photo sessions, staged scares and livestreams, an antique music box awakens a demonic force that turns performance into real and increasingly grotesque violence. As the cameras keep rolling and the audience grows, the desire to be seen exacts a brutal price. A gore-horror fable about the commodification and trivialization of intimacy in the age of algorithms, where exposure and even suffering becomes engagement.

A documentary about identity and the right to Covid-19 vaccination for Quilombolas. We arrived at the Morro Alto quilombo exactly one year after the administration of the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine was completed for the quilombola population. The vaccine arrives in the territory based on the count of available doses and the "number of arms" of people belonging to the quilombola community. Quilombola territoriality demonstrates that numbers and headcounts are not enough for the recognition of Quilombolas, whose identity encompasses kinship ties sustained by ancestry, affection, solidarity, and the connections between land and people, which structure and strengthen the sense of belonging and permanence in the territory. Therefore, these are arms that speak of bonds, histories, memory, identity, and the struggle for recognition, making up the doses that reach the descendants of the Morro Alto quilombola community.

The film is a monologue performed by the actress and trans singer Valéria Barcellos, who dramatizes a short story by Júlia Dantas. The documentary is inspired by text from the book Zero discriminação: short stories about life stories and the HIV epidemics, organized by professors Daniel Canavese and Maurício Polidoro (IFRS), published in 2021.