Pearl

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

A place-specific film-excavation of Bixiga neighborhood-São Paulo. Choreography of forces that cross present time. Filmancy, clairvoyance is the vision of what is taking shape. Allegory: lobby-color, speculates. Hollow in the heart of the city, a rock. A bird ‘rappina’ lands. Novelty: Quilombo, alley, dealers: step. Vai-Vai samba school’s black and white banner. Pictograms from Benjamin’s “The Arcades project”. Progress: pluging the river while it’s possible. Commodity: Matarazzo & Metro. The real state of things, real estate: banning organic. Ground- quotation, avocados, blue taroes, water tanks, oxum: (cosmo) political reaction. Rheme maining sources: life asking for passage.

After a trip to Disney World, a young woman returns to her grandmother's house in the remote city of Itamaracá, confronting desires from her past while trying to change her future.

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.

In a small port city on the coast of São Paulo, Brazil, rapid advances in infrastructure works and growing tourist development are increasingly impacting the lives of local inhabitants. Edivaldo, a longtime resident of the region, passionate about cinema, uses his camera to record the memories and changes of the place where he grew up. Meanwhile, young Iara faces challenges in search of a new home in the Topolândia neighborhood, trying to escape the chaos caused by the construction of a highway near her home. In the midst of these transformations, an unprecedented storm hits the city.

The meanderings of Thief over a minty cigarette pack.

bombs like fireworks, the artifice of televised war in a soft, black sky, perforations of light in the film’s velvet for any serious reflection the sidereal Consider in memory of the fallen in Gaza, the stars.

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

A boy feels the shadow of an irreversible environmental catastrophe drawing near. In the quiet of his backyard, he chooses to spend the last day before the world transforms beyond recognition alongside his mother. There, he witnesses the signs — the unrest of animals, the uprising of plants — while confronting the imminence of loss: not only the loss of a future he once imagined, but also the fragile bond that ties him to this woman and to this place. Guided by poetry, Late on the Planet is a meditation on the weight we give to the idea of finitude and on our precarious relationship with the more-than-human world. Inspired by the novel of the same name by Leonardo Piana.

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?

In a distant world ruled by a queer dictatorship, a non-binary couple's decision to marry challenges societal norms, blurring the lines of gender and love in a universe where inversions are the norm and limitations are mere illusions.

Love has always been present in Mabel's life. By selling bus tickets at a bus station she forms couples by putting people sitting side by side to travel. What she didn't know is that the love she always made bloom in the lives of others would now flourish in her life, after meeting Diana, a new employee of the coffee shop she attends.

In an old, dilapidated mansion in downtown São Paulo, an old Shakespearean actor exiled from the stage lives with his ghosts. In his bed, surrounded by red curtains taken from an abandoned theater, he dreams of the plague and fire spreading throughout the country. A strange community forms around the old actor.