Mato Alto: Pedra por Pedra

Dinho is concerned with abandonment. His biological mother returns, promising she will stay, while his best friend is about to leave. Between child’s play and caring for a sick aunt, he finds some time to dream. Life has not been easy for them: they cling to the final moments of childhood, which seem to no longer belong to them.

By starting a project of researching the life of a grandfather who he have never met, the filmmaker from Ceará, Arthur Leite, began to investigate the history of his own family. The deeper it gets, the more it departs from the original idea, and he realizes that the character is actually his grandmother Rosa – who, facing the camera, starts to make unexpected revelations about this unknown past.

Look around. Everything you see and touch can taste like vanilla.

In an ancient family mansion, mother Sydia and daughter Nina spend a tense night of isolation just as a solar storm threatens to collapse the Earth’s gravity. What begins as a fraught domestic moment quickly shifts when a mysterious visitor, Lara, arrives, and the house’s long‑missing employee, Joana, returns with disturbing news from the outside world. As the cosmic and terrestrial crises gather, the four women are forced to face buried secrets, generational trauma and shifting power dynamics. Their physical refuge becomes a battleground of psychological and symbolic upheaval, where the end of the world becomes mirror to the end of the old order — and perhaps the beginning of something new.