MY CALENDAR GIRL

HELENA IGNEZ

The film tells the story of Inacio, 40 years old, middle class citizen like so many others who live in the center of São Paulo City. Inacio is employed in a mechanical workshop, where, in addition to working, he dreams of the Calendar Girl. In the film, the real and imaginary intertwine all the time, in a tangle of surreal sensations.

2017 | 86 min | 14 | Brazil

AMOR MALDITO

adélia sampaio

First feature film directed by an Afro-Brazilian woman, the movie is a tragic love story between two women: Fernanda is a businesswoman, and Sueli is a former beauty queen, the daughter of an oppressive evangelical family, who commits suicide. Seen as the culprit for her ex-lover’s death, Fernanda goes to trial under a prejudicial and cruel court.

1984 | 76 min | 16 | Brazil

BARONESA

JULIANA ANTUNES

Andreia wants to move out. Leid is waiting for her husband, who is in prison. They are neighbors in a poor suburban slum of Belo Horizonte, trying to escape the daily dangers of a drug traffic war happening on the outside and avoid the tragedy that comes with the rain.

2017 | 70 min | 16 | Brazil

ENOUGH WITH CATCALL

amanda kamanchek, fernanda frazão

Were the cities made for women? The film tells the story of Raquel, Rosa and Teresa, who live in three different Brazilian cities and, through activism, art and poetry, resist and propose new ways of living in the public space.

2018 | 74 min | 14 | Brazil

COLO

teresa villaverde

In Portugal, a father, a mother and a daughter’s daily lives are being subsumed by the effects of the economic crisis. The mother unfolds in two jobs to pay the bi+lls because her husband is unemployed. The teenage daughter keeps her own secrets and tries to maintain her daily routine despite the lack of money. To escape this common reality, they slowly become strangers to each other, while tension becomes silence and guilt.

2017 | 136 min | 14 | Portugal, France

LIFE IS A BITCH

JULIA REZENDE

Lonely, frustrated, and unable to do anything to make sense of their lives, Vladimir, Clivia, Regina, and Primo make an absurd plan: to kidnap a millionaire. But they don`t have experience with crime or notion of what it envolves. As they move forward their fears and ambitions are revealed.

2017 | 102 min | 12 | Brazil

DEARCHIVING ALICE GONZAGA

BETSE DE PAULA

The documentary reviews a significant era of Brazilian cinema through the life of Alice Gonzaga, daughter of Adhemar Gonzaga, a visionary filmmaker who founded the first film studio in Brazil, Cinedia, in 1930. In this documentary, Alice herself reveals Cinedia`s precious archive, and shares stories of the Gonzaga family and their vivid contribution to the story of cinema.

2017 | 88 min | Free | Brazil

DIARY OF MY MIND

ursula meier

A few minutes before shooting his father and his mother in cold blood, Benjamin Feller, an 18-year-old young man, apparently uneventful, sends his diary by mail to his literature teacher in which he confesses and explains his double murder. The choice to associate this woman with his act and to unwillingly take her in the fall, follows several months of an educational relationship that encouraged the students to write a diary. The teacher find herself interrogated by the law, and soon confronted with her own doubts. What if her taste for a literature, haunted by the torments of the human soul, made her blind before the distress of her pupil and what was hidden behind the feverish prose he had made her read long before his crime?

2017 | 70 min | 16 | Switzerland

THE I DIED

bia lessa, dany roland

The life of a woman, since her birth until her death. The character was played by different people, of different ages, in different regions of Brazil, based on records of life, of events which are familiar to all human beings. The mystery of birth, the celebrations of our culture, the growth and the decadence of the body, death and issues involving knowledge inheritance.

2016 | 89 min | 14 | Brazil

ERA O HOTEL CAMBRIDGE

eliane caffé

Era o Hotel Cambridge tells the story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of homeless workers, occupy an old abandoned building in downtown São Paulo. Daily dramas, comical situations and different views on the word commingle with the threat of impending eviction.

2016 | 93 min | 12 | Brazil

RADIANCE

naomi kawase

Misako is a writer of film versions for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets Nakamori, an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight. Misako soon discovers Nakamori’s photographs, who will strangely bring her back to her past. Together, they will learn to see the radiant world that was invisible to her eyes.

2017 | 103 min | 12 | Japan, France

THE VOLCANO EXILES

paula gaitán

She was able to save his diary and a pile of photographs from the fire. These sentences and faces are the only traces left of the man she once knew and loved. With the clues at hand, she tries to retrace his steps through mountains and open roads. But the places she’s visits bring out persons, gestures, memories and stories that slowly become part of her life.

2013 | 125 min | 14 | Brazil

JEUNE FEMME

léonor serraille

Broke, with nothing but her cat and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she`s determined to make a new start and she`ll do it with style and panache.

2017 | 97 min | 14 | France

LAMPIAO, LIGHTING UP THE BRAZILIAN PRESS

lívia perez

Inspired by the American paper Gay Sunshine, in 1978 appeared in Brazil, during the dictatorship, the newspaper O Lampião, depicting the point of view of homosexuals on various issues, including sexuality. A group of journalists and writers from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo joined the project, fueling a publication that paved the way for the press at the time, addressing controversial issues at the period, such as racism, abortion, drugs and prostitution.

2016 | 82 min | 16 | Brazil

THEY HAVE KILLED OUR CHILDREN

susanna lira

Brazil is the country with the highest murder rates in the world. The vast majority of them, younglings who lose way too soon their chance to fulfil dreams and wishes. The movie builds a poetic narrative about the journey of the Mothers of May. A group leaded by Debora Silva that creates a new place after the tragic loss of their children. They will not come back, but what is within the reach of these mums is the battle for the memory and justice, transforming daily the grief into struggle, suffering into hope, pain into reaction.

2016 | 72 min | 12 | Brazil

MY BODY IS POLITICAL

alice riff

My Body is Political talks about the everyday life of four LGBTQ activists who live in poor neighborhoods in São Paulo. The narrative is developed with a mix of their intimate lives and broader social context, raising questions about the brazilian transgender community and their political disputes.

2017 | 71 min | 12 | Brazil

JANDYRA - A BRAZILIAN TRAGEDY

helena solberg

The documentary is about the controversial and explosive question of abortion in Brazil. An estimated one million Brazilian women seek illegal abortions every year, most of them conducted in inhuman conditions. Many suffer injuries or lose their lives in clandestine clinics, at the hands of criminals. The film personalizes this situation through the true story of Jandyra Magdalena dos Santos, a case that made national and international headlines, and will lead the viewer through a labyrinth of conflicts.

2017 | 75 min | 14 | Brazil

THE HOUSE IS AN ISLAND MADE OF WIND AND RAIN

LETÍCIA SIMÕES

Brazilian Amazonian writer Dalcídio Jurandir was born in 1909 and died in 1979. He wrote 11 books, ten of them on the Island of Marajó and its inhabitants. His main character is named Alfredo. Dalcídio tells his story from his childhood in Cachoeira do Arari to the mishaps of adult life in Belém, culminating in his return to the island. In 1939, at the age of 30, fresh out of prison for protesting against the Brazilian dictatorship, Dalcídio accepted a job that no one wanted: to travel the world`s largest sea-river island, inspecting public schools. During this trip, he writes letters to his wife, Guiomarina, and to his nine-month-old son, Alfredo. In 2017, the filmmaker Letícia Simões travels to Marajó searching the characters of Dalcídio.

2017 | 94 min | Free | Brazil

THE DISMANTLING OF THE MOUNT

SINAI SGANZERLA

The documentary approaches the history of Morro do Castelo its dismantling and entrainment. Despite its historical and architectural importance Morro do Castelo it was destroyed by urbanistic reforms in order to sanitize the city.

2017 | 85 min | 10 | Brazil

PARADISE LOST

monique gardenberg

Amidst the underground of São Paulo nightlife, an eccentric family of singers is held together by their loss, undying dedication to each other, and individual quests to find love. Drawing a parallel between Brazilian romantic songs and Greek epics, the film follows patriarch José’s plot to lure young policeman Odair and reunite his family. As bodyguard for José`s grandson Imã, a young and charismatic drag performer, Odair unknowingly embarks on the journey. Music is the unifying force in this heartfelt fable of return and redemption. Themes such as domestic violence, sexual diversity, and new family structures are explored throughout the family’s relationships.

2018 | 110 min | 14 | Brazil

PASTOR CLÁUDIO

beth formaggini

Conversation between a psychologist Eduardo Passos and a evangelical preacher, Pastor Cláudio Guerra, a former police agent of 1960-70`s Brazilian militar dictatorship, who had incinerated the bodies of those who stood against the government.

2017 | 76 min | 16 | Brazil

PARIS SQUARE

LUCIA MURAT

Gloria is a woman born and raised in Rio de Janeiro who tries to get on with her life despite of the traumas due to an abusive father and a drug-dealing brother. Camila is a young Portuguese psychoanalyst who comes to Brazil for research violence in a therapeutic centre in a poor community. Fear, traumas and obsession blend into a game of pleasure and guilt, madness and sanity, construction and deconstruction of an urban Rio de Janeiro, which permeates the relationship between Camila and Gloria and, above all, their own lives. This relationship is the focus of the film.

2017 | 110 min | 14 | Brazil, Portugal, Argentina

WHAT LANGUAGE DO YOU SPEAK?

ELISA BRACHER

This Picture shows several interviews about the process to adapt to a new language. There are children and adults that lived the migration process, therapists and the staff of the schools that work to make easier the adaptcional process. The interviews were made in Brazil, India and England and shows different aspects of adaptation: lexical, grammar, accent and conceptual problems. In general, they are people who change from rural areas to urban ones. It intends that the problems faced for the immigrants in different countries are similar to the problems faced for the internal migrants of Brazil.

2017 | 65 min | Free | Brazil, England, India

SLAM: SWORDED WORDS

TATIANA LOHMANN, ROBERTA ESTRELA D`ALVA

The film goes to Chicago, NY, Paris and Sao Paulo, and finds same scene with different accents: the poetry slams, poetic performatic battles, instigating creativity and coexistence between all kinds of people, standing before the political conservative wave as Agoras of the free thought and free expression. In Brazil, the poet Luz Ribeiro wins the Nationals and goes to the World Cup of Poetry Slam in France representing the new feminist and black poetics that has firmly entrenched in the Brazilian slam scene by the virulence of his politicized verb.

2017 | 97 min | Free | Brazil

TESOROS

maría novaro

Jacinta guides us through the story of siblings Dylan, Andrea and Lucas who arrive in a fishing community on Mexico’s Pacific coast to set off with their new local friends on a journey of discovery in search of long lost pirate loot left back by Francis Drake, centuries ago. In sunny and lively images, a story of children confidently indulging their lust for life and curiosity. Armed with their intelligence, a Tablet, and some maps, these children are given freedom to go their own ways and together find something much more valuable than a buried treasure. Transporting us to a place of optimism, beauty and wonder.

2017 | 96 min | Free | Mexico

A MARRIAGE

mônica simões

The documentary talks about a wedding which narrative is built through the confrontation of memories: the subjective memory, composed by the memories of the bride (the main character), as well as by the memories of the bride’s daughter (the film director), against the concrete memory which is represented by domestic films, photos, love letters and the family’s house. The narrative also incorporates as language the effects of the time passage on these objects, as well as on the character’s memories.

2016 | 80 min | Free | Brazil

VERGEL

kris niklison

A sudden mourning brings a woman to the edge of madness. Funeral procedures, heat and a neighbor that comes to water the plants come together in an emotional journey, in which it is impossible to distinguish the real from the unreal.

2017 | 86 min | 16 | Brazil, Argentina

XICA DA SILVA

CARLOS DIEGUES

In the second half of the 18th century, Xica da Silva (Zezé Motta), a black slave, became the centre of attention in the Diamond District, where the richest mines in the country are. João Fernandes (Walmor Chagas), the representative of the Portuguese Crown, falls in love with Xica and makes her the Diamond Queen, satisfying all her extravagant desires. Alerted by the enemies of the couple, the king of Portugal sends an emissary in order to impede the power of Xica to grow in the colony. After-film discussion with the Actress Zezé Motta

1976 | 117 min | 16 | Brazil