Buried Sky

Elias is a handsome young deputy manager in a garment factory in São Paulo. When he’s not working, he enjoys casual encounters in the big city. The arrival of a young African, Fernando, on the production line piques his interest and Elias finds himself increasingly drawn into socialising with his work colleagues.

Saturday night, the Brazilian Midwest. Jean is a redneck listening to a local radio station where listeners send their messages of love.

While a Carnival party takes place in the living room, Lu enters her mother's room looking for needle and thread to sew Tati's blouse strap.

Solange wants her stuff back. She moved out of town five years ago and now returns to retrieve her belongings, which she left in boxes at friends' homes.

Marta wants to give herself a chance to live a new life, in a new city.

The film tells the story of Chen, a Chinese immigrant who lives as an invisible person in the city center. Amid homesickness, difficulty communicating in Portuguese and tiredness from work, Chen can't fit in anywhere. At night, alone and when the streets are empty, the asphalt becomes meditation and there he can dream. It is a fiction created and set in real locations in collaboration with the characters themselves, all non-professional actors who play themselves, creating a portrait with documentary aspects, both of their lives and of the center of Curitiba.

Cristian Nazario abandoned his family to climb Mount Everest and now returns home with terminal cancer. His homecoming brings to light his troubled family relationship and Brazil’s social situation: he is the fourteenth Brazilian to have climbed Mount Everest, but the first black man among them.