35 Shots of Rum

Claire Denis

Lionel, a widower, and his daughter Josephine have a strong connection: the father raised his daughter alone after the death of his wife. Lionel catches the eye of a middle-aged woman, and Josephine starts seeing a taxi driver. When the man moves abroad, Lionel realizes his daughter is growing up. It is time for him to confront the past.=

2008 | 100 min | 12 anos | França

Hour of the Star

Suzana Amaral

Poverty and marginalization of oppressed individuals are addressed in Macabéa’s story, a migrant from the Northeast. After her aunt`s death, she moves to Rio de Janeiro, works as a typist and falls in love with Olímpio de Jesus - who cheats on her with her co-worker. It addresses issues in incommunicability and the pain caused by loneliness.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
1985 - Brasília Festival – Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Editor, Best Director of Art, Best Cinematography, Best Original Soundtrack, Critics Award, Jury Award, OCIC Award | 1986 – Berlin International Film Festival – Best Actress, OCIC Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention International Film Club Confederation | 1986 – Créteil International Women’s Film Festival - France – Best Direction | 1986 – Havana International Festival – Best Film | 1986 - Oscar – Best Film Brazilian Nomination

1985 | 96 min | 12 anos | Brasil

The Woman With Her Own Light

Sinai Sganzerla

Helena Ignez is one of the main female personalities in Brazilian cinema. She started a new style of interpretation and currently is an independent director. The documentary describes part of the history of cinema, the political context and the artist’s trajectory.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2020 – 38th Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay | 2020 – 15th Festival Tucumán Cine Gerardo Vallejo - Argentina | 2020 - SANFIC 16 - Santiago International Film Festival | 2020 – 18th Filmmor - International Women’s Film Festival - Istanbul, Turkey | 2019 – 41st Havana Film Festival - Cuba | 2019 – 21th Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival | 2019 – 14th Festival de Cinema Latino-Americano de São Paulo | 2019 – 8th Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba Int’l Film Festival

2019 | 74 min | 12 anos | Brasil

Speak Up

Amandine Gay

The film focuses francophone European black women from the diaspora on their common experience related to minority status in predominantly White ex-colonial countries, and bring to light the existence at the crossroad of multiple discriminations that go way beyond our “black women” status. It’s a statement from francophone European black women so as to why they choose to reclaim the narrative.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2018 - Indie Memphis Film Festival – Best Documentary, Nominated | 2017 – Martinica International Film Festival – Honorable Jury Mention | 2017 - Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal – Audience Award

2017 | 122 min | 14 anos | França

Through Ernesto’s Eyes

Ana Luiza Azevedo

Synopsis Ernesto faces the limitations in elderhood such as loneliness and increasing blindness, which he thinks he can hide from everyone, until Bia, a clumsy dog sitter who storms into his life and puts his methodical daily life at risk.
FILMOGRAPHY
[2012] Doce de Mãe [2011] Histórias do Amor [2010] Mulher de Fases [2010] Decamerão [2009] Antes que o Mundo Acabe [2007] O Grão da Imagem [2002] Dona Cristina Perdeu a Memória [2002] Olho da Rua 2 [2001] Olho da Rua 1 [1999] Em Frente da Lei Tem um Guarda [1999] Três Minutos [1998] Uma História de Verdade [1994] Ventre Livre [1990] Cinema Gaúcho, uma Aventura Quadro a Quadro [1988] Barbosa
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2020 – 23rd Festival de Cine de Punta del Este - Best Feature Film by the audience, Best Actor | 2019 – 43rd São Paulo Film Festival – Critics Prize, Best Brazilian Feature Film | 2019 - Encontros com Cinema Brasileiro | 2019 - Busan International Film Festival – South Korea | 2019 – 41st Festival Del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de Havana | 2019 – Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival |

2019 | 123 min | 12 anos | Brasil

Until the End

Glenda Nicácio, Ary Rosa

Geralda works at her own kiosk on a beach in Recôncavo Baiano when she receives a call from the hospital telling that her father could die at any time. She warns her sisters Rose, Bel and Vilmar. Their meeting while waiting for their father`s death becomes an outburst moment and a time for awareness, since they have not met each other since the death of their mother 15 years prior.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS 2020
– 23th Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes - Mostra Foco - Barroco Award for Best Film by the audience.

2020 | 93 min | 12 anos | Brasil

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

Let the Sunshine In

Claire Denis

Parisian artist Isabelle (Juliette Binoche) is a divorced mother in search of the love of her life in the romantic capital of France. Among dates, affairs, sex, fights and disappointments, she goes through some difficult situations and realizes loving and being loved is a complex subject.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2017 - Cannes - SACD Award- Quinzaine des réalisateurs | 2018 - International Cinephile Society Awards – BestUn-Premiered Film in 2017 | 2019 - Central Ohio Film Critics Association – Best Film in Foreign Language - Nominated | 2018 - Cesar, France – Best Actress - Nominated

2017 | 94 min | 14 anos | França

Elections

Alice Riff

It is the elections for the students’ council. High School students are organizing the electoral race. Four groups of students, with different opinions and worldviews, create proposals, debate campaign strategies and strive for school improvements.

MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2018 – Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival | Dok Leipzig | ForumDocBH

2018 | 100 min | 12 anos | Brasil

Elliot Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good

Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu

Elliott Erwitt has spent his entire adult life taking photographs of presidents, popes and movie stars, as well as regular people and their pets. His work is iconic in world culture while his life is largely unknown. The movie is a quiet, intimate portrait of an artist at work.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2020 - Asolo Art Film Festival – Nominated for Best Art Film

2019 | 62 min | 14 anos

Your Turn

The documentary follows student struggles from the 2013 manifestations, to the victory of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. The plot is driven by the voice of three students, representatives of the central axes, who dispute the narrative, explaining the movement`s conflicts and highlighting their complexities.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2019 – Berlin International Film Festival - Amnesty International Film Award e Peace Film Prize | LUCAS - International Film Festival for Young Lovers - Outstanding Cinematic Achievement 13+ | Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival - Prêmio de Excelência | Hamburg International Queer Film Festival – Jury Award | Cine PE – Best Film, Best Feature Film, - Critics Prize, Best Screenplay, Best Editor | Curitiba Int’l Film Festival – Best Brazilian Feature Film | Florianópolis Audiovisual Mercosul – Best Documentary

2019 | 93 min | 14 anos | Brasil

Dead Ones, Do You Live?

Gabriela Greeb

Based on unpublished private sound and image archives, testimonies, meetings and fictional interventions, the film reveals the memory and presence of the writer, poet and playwright Hilda Hilst at Casa do Sol, where she lived in Campinas. Her voice, in recordings registered between 1974 and 1979, in search of contact with the after-life, is the guiding thread of the film.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2019 – Cinema Brazil Grand Prize Editor - Nominated | 2018 - Opening – Paraty International Literary Festival (FLIP)

2018 | 73 min | 10 anos | Brasil

Jinn

Nijla Mu`min

Summer is a carefree 17-year-old whose world gets turned upside down when her mother, a popular meteorologist, abruptly decides to convert to Islam.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2018 - American Black Film Festival – Best Screenplay, Best Actress | 2018 - Black Reel Awards – Best Debut Feature Film | 2018 - Indie Memphis Films Festival – Best Screenplay | 2018 - SXSW Film Festival – Special Jury Prize – Narrative Production

2018 | 92 min | 14 anos | EUA

Mãtãnãg, the Enchanted One

Charles Bicalho, Shawara Maxakali

Mãtãnãg follows the spirit of her husband, who died bitten by a snake, to the village of the dead. Together, they overcome the obstacles that separate the earthly from the spiritual world. Spoken in Maxakali and subtitled, Mãtãnãg is based on a traditional tale from the Maxakali people. The illustrations in the film were made in a workshop in Aldeia Verde (MG, Brazil).
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2020 - Cinélatino Tolouse – Special Jury Debut Mention | 48th Festival de Cinema de Gramado – Special Jury Prize to actress Preta Ferreira, Best Sound Design Award | 2020 - Encontro de Cinema Negro Zózimo Bulbul - Encontro de Cinema Negro Zózimo Bulbul - Brazil, Africa and Caribbean | 31st Curta Kinoforum – São Paulo International Short Film Festival

2019 | 14 min | Livre | Brasil

Half Brother

Eliane Coster

Sandra’s mother has been missing for days. Disoriented and penniless, she asks her distant half-brother Jorge for help. However, he deals with another difficult situation: after registering a homophobic aggression act, he starts to be harassed so as not to publish the images.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2018 – 42th São Paulo International Film Festival - Best Film by the Audience Choice for Debuting Director | Abracine - Brazilian Film Critics Association - Best Fiction Film for Debuting Director | 2018 - 10th Fronteira International Film Festival - Bagé - Best Actress | 2019 - 6th Festival de Cinema de Caruaru, Pernambuco - Best Actor - Best Cinematography - Honorable Mention Debuting Actress | 31º Cinéma en Construction - Toulouse, France | 2nd Ficsur - Argentina

2020 | 99 min | 16 anos | Brasil

My Blood Is Red

Graciela Guarani, Thiago Dezan

Music documentary following Werá, a young indigenous rapper who tries to understand the violence against his people. His lyrics express anger and sadness, confronted by the genocide, which is tolerated by the State, of the unprivileged indigenous people of Brazil. He is adopted by rapper Criolo and guided by Sonia Guajajara, indigenous leader.
MAIS FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
Los Angeles Film Awards - USA – Honorable Mention | Milestone Worldwide Film Festival - Battipaglia, Italy – Best Documentary | Five Continents International Film Festival - Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela – Best Original Soundtrack | Beyond the Curve International Film Festival - Paris, France – Best Original Soundtrack in Documentary |

2020 | 86’ min | Livre | Brasil

My Fortress

Tatiana Lohmann

The film tells the story of three families affected by the loss of a father in a São Paulo suburb neighborhood and the lonely mother acquires the aura of a holy warrior, worshiped in tattooed bodies and graffiti walls. However, these women seem to be attached to a pedestal they did not choose to be on and which bears a great resemblance to that of Mater Dolorosa.
MAIN FESTIVALS ANS AWARDS
2019 – Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival | 2020 - American Black Film Festival

2019 | 84 min | Livre | Brasil

The Book of Delights

Marcela Lordy

Free adaptation of Clarice Lispector`s novel transported to present times. An erotic drama based on a game of seduction, in a period of liquid love and emotional apathy, about the meeting of Elementary School teacher Lóri and the Argentine philosophy teacher Ulysses, with whom Lóri learns to love facing her own loneliness.

2020 | 99 min | Brasil | Argentina

Pattaki

Everlane Moraes

Fish agonize by the sea as the water covers the city and creates mirrors that distort its image. By night, when the moon rises, these beings who live a monotonous daily life without water are mesmerized by the powers of Iemanjá, the goddess of the sea.
MAIN FESTIVAL AND AWARDS
2020 - Sundance Film Festival – Nominated Best Short Film - Grand Jury Prize | 2020 – 23rd Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes | 2020 - 4º Festival Ecrã - RJ | 2020 – Rotterdham International Film Festival - Soul in the Eye

2019 | 21 min | 12 anos | Cuba

Perifericu

Nay Mendl, Rosa Caldeira, Vita Pereira, Sthefanny Fernanda

Luz and Denise grew up in the midst of the adversities of being LGBT in the extreme south of São Paulo. Between vogue and poetry, from praise to access to the city, the dreams and uncertainties of youth flood their existences.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
27th Mix Brasil Festival | 23rd Mostra Internacional de Tiradentes | 31st São Paulo International Short Film Festival | Last Frame Queer Womxn Fest | Quibdó Africa Film Festival | 15th Festival Taguatinga de Cinema

2019 | 20 min | 14 anos | Brasil

Crab Recipe

Issis Valenzuela

After the death of her father, Lari and her mother spend a few days on the beach. They decide to cook crabs. The creatures, little by little, become luminous beings.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2020 - Cinélatino Toulouse – Special Jury Mention - Debut | 48th Festival de Cinema de Gramado – Special Jury Prize to Preta Ferreira, Best Sound Design | 2020 - Encontro de Cinema Negro Zózimo Bulbul 2020 - Brasil, Africa, Caribbean and other diasporas | 31st Curta Kinoforum – São Paulo International Short Film Festival | Afrocine 2020 - Muestra Internacional de Cine Afro del Cauca - Colombia

2020 | 20 min | Livre | Brasil

Republic

Grace Passô

One night, a Brazilian woman wakes up in a country overwhelmed by violent acts. The short film was made at home, at the beginning of the 2020 quarantine, in the city center of São Paulo, in the República neighborhood.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2020 - Moreira Salles Institute- Programa Convida - Fomento

2020 | 15 min | Livre | Brasil

Wingless

Renata Martins

Zu`s first childhood dream is to become a bulletproof superhero when he grows up. A family: the mother, who works selling snacks, the father, who is starting a new job, and the 12-year-old son, who is studying for a math test. Why does asking your son to go buy a pack of flour at Mr. Zé`s grocery store become dangerous?
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2019 - 17º Afrika Film Festival Köln - Germany | 2019 - 12º Encontro de Cinema Negro Zózimo Bulbul - Brazil, Africa and Caribbean - RJ | 2019 - 30º Festival Internacional de Curtas Kinoforum - SP – National Competitive Exhibition | 20º Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival | 23º Mostra Tiradentes | 2019 - Retrospectiva Cinesesc Melhores do Ano

2019 | 19’ min | Livre | Brasil

Seeds: Black Women to the Front

Éthel Oliveira, Júlia Mariano

Documentary on the insurgency of black women in Brazilian politics after the killing of Marielle Franco.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARD
Debut

2020 | 105 min | 14 anos | Brasil

Silvia

María Silvia Esteve

Silvia is about to embark on a promising future with a diplomat husband. The home videos show more happy highlights from her life, meanwhile, the audio commentary offers a very different reality. The film’s director is the middle one of Silvia’s daughters, and she and her siblings talk about their parents’ marriage gradual descent into a spiral of angry clashes, psychological problems and prescription drugs, trying to get a handle on what went wrong.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2019 - Doc Buenos Aires – Best Documentary in Argentina Competition, Special Mention for Editor, Best Film by Young Jury | 2019 - DocAviv - Depth of Field Award | 2019 - Festival del Cinema Latino Americano di Trieste | 2019 - Valladolid International Film Festival

2018 | 103 min | 14 anos | Chile

To Late to Die Young

Dominga Sotomayor

During the summer of 1990 in Chile, a small group of families lives in an isolated community below the Andes, away from the urban excesses, with the freedom that followed the recent end of the dictatorship. Three young neighbours in this dry land, struggle with parents, first loves, and fears, as they prepare a big party for New Year’s Eve.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2019 - International Film Festival Rotterdam - KNF Award | 2019 - Cyprus Film Days International Festival – Best Director | 2019 - Festival Internacional de Cine Unam – Best Director for International Competition | 2018 - Gijón International Film Festival – Best Direction, Best Cinematography | 2018 - Locarno Festival – Best Director

2018 | 110 min | 12 anos | Chile | Argentina | Brasil | Holanda

Tea for Two

Julia Katharine

Silvia is a middle-aged filmmaker in crisis. On the same night she is surprised by the visit of her ex-wife, who left her few years ago, she meets a different and fascinating woman.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2019 - Guarani Award – Best Short Fiction Film | 26th Festival de Cinema de Vitória - Quatro Estações – Best Short Film | 5th Cine Jardim – Special Jury Prize | 12th Curta Taquary - Primeiros Passos – Best Director of Art, Best Director of Photography, Best Sound, Best Actress | 22nd Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes | 16th Indie Lisboa | 30th Curta Kinoforum – São Paulo International Short Film Festival

2018 | 25 min | 12 anos | Brasil

Crossing

Safira Moreira

The film seeks photographic records of black families in this intimate and poetic visual essay, exploring private stories to criticize the stigmatization and almost absence of portraits of these people. A sensitive visual counter-narrative of what remains invisible.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2019 – Rotherham International Film Festival – Opening film | 2017 - CachoeiraDOC – Best Shot Film | 2017 – 9th Semana de Cinema | 2017 - Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife – Critics Prize and Honorable Mention ABD | 2017 - Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema 2017

2017 | 5 min | Livre | Brasil

A Day with Jerusa

Viviane Ferreira

The meeting of the psychic Silvia, a young market researcher who faces the difficulties of underemployment while waiting for the results of a public tender, and the lovely Jerusa, a 77-year-old lady, an eyewitness of the daily life of the Bixiga neighborhood, filled with ancestral memories.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2020 – 23rd Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes | Blackstar Film Festival | Festival de Cinema de Caruaru, Pernambuco

2020 | 74 min | 14 anos | Brasil

Dazed Flesh

Ricardo Alves JR, Grace Passô

The film is a playing field for word and movement, where a woman`s body experiences the eagerness of speech in search of their identities and belonging. A wandering voice decides to rule a woman`s body and creates a journey of self-awareness, narrating what she feels and what her body means as a social construction.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2020 – Berlin Film Festival | Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes – opening film

2020 | 45 min | 16 anos | Brasil