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Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.

Neko and his friends meet in the city center one late summer afternoon. They tour the streets of a city that seems to be a teenager in flux just like them. They meet other young people sprawled on the grass, by the Tejo river. Among them is Matilde, who sees in Neko her best friend from nursery school, Carolina, with whom she has lost contact...

Adaptation by the director Inês Oliveira from the traditional Portuguese tale «O Sapo e a Rapariga». The laundry room is closed and a young woman (Rita Cabaço) has to learn how to wash clothes by hand with the wise Deolinda (Isabel Ruth), who tells her a strange story of enchantment.

Over the course of seven years, Mariana Viegas photographed the sets of some of the last productions shot on 35mm. Today, she returns to the perspective she had as a young woman, back when she worked with directors such as Šarūnas Bartas, Pedro Costa, João César Monteiro and Manoel de Oliveira. Joined by a few guests, she will take us on a journey through a surprising archive, in an encounter between photography and cinema, creation and life.