Islands of Heat

Ciro, an overworked medical student and pole dance instructor, loses stability as Brazil’s university system collapses. Forced out of his home, he finds refuge with Antônio, a reclusive DJ, a meeting that reshapes both their survival and intimacy.

On the eve of leaving the informal work sector and being hired, Samuel is haunted by his work instrument: the engineer mascot.

At a construction site, a delivery man lunches with his bricklayer friends and watches a crossfire between the engineer and the foreman.

In Brazil's countryside, Amanda tries to get her first show while Thamires tries to make her first film, both at risk of the highway.

Marcelo’s mother disappeared when he was 10 years old, leaving him with an endless void. The boy grows into a young man who wanders through cemeteries and takes refuge in invented memories to cope with reality. One day, two mysterious beings cross his path, and Marcelo sets off with them on a journey across the boundaries between the world of the living and the world of the dead.

"I walk for mystery, I live for mystery ... Our body is a machine, or does it take care of it or do you know it?" Between the memories of the nightclub and reports of daily resistance: Tikal dances and defies standards.

Alagoas countryside. Laura misses a party to travel with her father. There, in the house where they grew up, she is left alone by him, who only returns to the house for dinner.

My grandfather Tuiu decides for the second time to leave his house and start a life elsewhere, he lives with the street hardships, and the fact of leaving is linked to the depredation of that place.

The sinking of the ground caused by a mining company to extract rock salt results in holes and cracks in the homes of residents in the neighborhood of Bebedouro, in Maceió. The imminent risk of collapse makes the neighborhood uninhabited, leaving space for the exploration of the territory, until a gang of teenagers plans to destroy the machine responsible for the collapse, turning the imagination into a possibility of inhabiting an uninhabitable territory. (K.M.)