Corpo Aberto

Valentina

As a young archivist labours on the reassembly of a long-lost film print, her emotional life spirals into a tumultuous state that is mirrored in the degradation of the frames she so painstakingly works upon.

Os Afro-Sambas: The Brazil of Baden and Vinicius

Released in 1966 by Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell, the record Os Afro-Sambas is one of Brazil's most revered. Participants of the original recording, critics, friends and family of the musicians revisit the creation of this masterpiece. Filmed between Salvador and Rio, the documentary brings together archive footage and exclusive interviews with Maria Bethânia, Dori Caymmi, Russo Passapusso and Nelson Motta. A tribute to a classic that transformed Brazilian music.

Juliana at the Cinematheque

Juliana works in a film archive. Busy with the restoration of the pieces, she copes with decay and the constants dilemmas that's involved in film preservation.

As far as the world reaches

A team of ethnobotanists must catalog one of the world's most important natural history collections, while a bird watcher ends up recording a long-forgotten sound. This recording is the origin of an exploration of the endless effects of colonialism on the way we perceive nature today.

0.2 Milligrams of Gold

A road trip of sorts between the Amazon forest in Brazil and the controlled nature of Belgium.

Adeus aos Livros

A second-hand bookstore in the outskirts of Lisbon is overcrowded from floor to ceiling with books of all kinds. In addition to precious rarities, less relevant books, a few remnants of torn papers and old random magazines. José Ribeiro is a 76-year-old bookseller facing the impossibility of organizing his shop. And now he battles between preservation of memory and excessive accumulation.