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Maycon is a boxer who trains to return to the ring while sharing his time with two underemployees. Malu's father, the result of a casual relationship he had with Michele, he has his life overturned when he finds himself in the situation of having to take care of his daughter alone. Between the exhausting routine of training and training to survive Maycon's biggest fight has yet to be won: becoming a father.

Working as a TV host of an important political campaign for mayor, Luisa suffers with the professional relations with her co-workers. It’s the last week before the first round of local elections and Luisa, away from her hometown and family, discovers a serious scandal that could jeopardize the entire election. Not only must she now decide her fate, but that of an entire city.

A group of passengers cross a river on a small ferry. Fog, laughter, whispers and faces inhabit a floating, suspended space. Time passes, the shore is now closer and people prepare for another part of their journey. Aqueronte summons the essence of cinema to transport us to unreal spaces where life is crystallised in a changing landscape of light and shadow. In this cinematic trip, Manuel Muñoz Rivas reaffirms the fabulating power of moving images.

It's the second wave of the COVID pandemic in Rio de Janeiro. There's no water in Madá's old mansion, a sewing cooperative where sheltered LGBTQI+ young people live and work. Renê, one of the residents, paints the anguish of a mysterious spirit that haunts the shelter through the plumbing. Across town, a loner middle-aged plumber, Ismael, is tormented by the same curse.

Nuca, one of the world’s leading bee specialists, celebrates her birthday surrounded by family traditions. As the family matriarch, time is relentless in its toll on her memory loss. In an attempt to remember, she revisits family photographs, and as the past and present intertwine, secrets begin to surface. At this celebration, it won't just be the photos that are revealed.

Eight years before Brazilian Sign Language was officially recognized, Flora, a 7-year-old Deaf girl, grows up without linguistic autonomy. Forced to speak Portuguese at home and school, she faces childhood without guidance, affection, voice, or laughter.

A pioneering neurosurgeon volunteers in his own experimental procedure to surgically remove the fear of death. This short has bizarre storytelling, body horror visuals and an eerie beauty that gets under your skin.

A drama with touches of suspense, where a mother and daughter get lost in a cave.

Adam is a lonely boy who tries to play with other kids... However, the only real friend Adam has seems to belong to his imagination.

From a peculiar narrative, “Esperanza” builds a subtle and simple allegory about the phenomenon of immigration of people from other South American countries to Brazil, in a relationship that reveals places of approximation, but also historical and dramaturgical spaces that point to the effects of a certain imperialism that surrounds such processes. All this concentrated in the suffocated atmosphere of the protagonist.

In the encounter between different peoples, there's a clash. Those who were already on the land, living their common world, come face to face with a people from across the sea, decrepit, who claim to have found paradise in these lands. They find it strange. Freely inspired by the work of the anthropologist and sociologist Darcy Ribeiro, this animated short brings a poetic view of colonization and the Brazilian people, both verbally and visually.

Alessandro and Adriana run a musical group at a public school whose activities were interrupted due to the pandemic. In an attempt to maintain a connection with children during the worst crisis in the country's recent history, they discover in the circus a new way of reinventing their craft and prepare for a great show.