Projeto Beirute

Sem Bloqueio will follow the behind-the-scenes action and off-court reality of the victorious girls of the Brazilian squad, their preparation and journey in the Nations League and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

In the ‘land without evil’ humans will find peace, according to the Guaraní. Not far from Rio de Janeiro, they have built a village where they can live according to their customs and their children can grow up equally influenced by ancient traditions and the modern world. The uncommented observation of their everyday lives full of games, laughter and music enables the audience to pose questions – and to search for their own right answers.

The stage is the general of Maracanã stadium. On stage, the fans known as geraldinos in a spectacle of ecstasy, fury, joy and pain.

From a lifetime, a single memory has survived. Only one.

A short documentary film built with Super 8 images. A lyric journey through the images and sensations revealed by the memories and dreams of blind people.

Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde. Countries linked by the sea and the culture of nostalgia. The film travels across three continents and finds characters marked by absences produced by events that transform the history of these countries. Like fascism, colonization, slavery, dictatorships and leaving never to return. The culture of saudade is the thread that connects conversations by the sea.

The weather, the wind. The fish, the beach. Work and her.