A Guerra de Michael

A deep dive into Afro-Brazilian culture, exploring the trajectory of soul music in Brazil from the late 1960s to its peak at "black balls" in the following decades. Through the lens of intellectuals such as Beatriz Nascimento, Lélia Gonzalez, and Edneia Gonçalves, the documentary recovers and celebrates the importance of these parties as spaces of resistance and affirmation of Black identity in Brazil, connecting Quilombola traditions to contemporary urban culture.

A woman conceals an intimate secret in São Paulo, unaware that her sister is following her closely with a camera.

A series of mishaps befalls Tom, a printmaker with a single task: delivering a plaque to a Korean restaurant.

After dying from a brain disease, a bourgeois young woman joins an angel obsessed with the apocalypse, while a Portuguese tourist pesters a religious Uber driver who just picked him up from the airport.

While working on the unfinished self-portrait of her bedridden mother, a young woman notices an unknown presence in her house.

The meanderings of Thief over a minty cigarette pack.

Three stories unravel around the finding of a rotten foot on a beach in Guarujá.

DARK: noun. Passages. Noise. A night vortex, from where three suns may rise.

Amidst strange encounters in her life and work, Helena, a Brazilian filmmaker living in Chicago, is struck by a compelling obvious question: where’s south?

Josué is about to embark on a new chapter in his life. Together with his pregnant partner, he is preparing a room for their son and hanging photographs from the past on the walls – snippets of life from the family chronicle, to which they will soon add new chapters. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Cuba, a quiet social and relational drama centred on a young family on the threshold of an uncertain future unfolds in this delicate observation.