Saudade do Futuro

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.

We are in the Sahara, in Rio de Janeiro, but it could be Beirut!

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.

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

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

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.

Thirty-five years in the life of a couple, told through 2,000 notes and family photographs. Love, jealousy, pain, resilience, and death, reflected upon by Aldir Blanc, the creator of some of the most beautiful lyrics in Brazilian popular music — including “O Bêbado e a Equilibrista” (“The Drunkard and the Tightrope Walker”), written for his wife, Mari Lúcia. Six years after Aldir’s death, the notes continue to emerge, hidden inside objects throughout the couple’s apartment in Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca neighborhood. Mari revisits forgotten moments and opens the moving treasure trove of notes in the year Aldir — who died of COVID-19 in 2020 — would have turned 80.

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