Bruno Polidoro

Santiago, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne, Paris, London, Porto Alegre, Sao Paulo. The cities that witnessed the brief life of the poet, playwright and writer Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-1996) are now revisited and covered with fragments of his works and memories of his friends, such as Maria Adelaide Amaral, Grace Gianoukas and Adriana Calcanhoto.

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London, a disabled young adult working in a fetish house, finds himself caught in an unexpected dilemma when offered the chance to understand his body through a medical exam.

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In a rural village colonized by Germans, little Ana watches a play about the history of the Thiltapes. It is a dangerous animal that lives in the forest, and no one knows its real form. Two hundred years earlier, a botanist who writes about the region hears about this same animal. The stories intertwine, both in an obsessive search for the imaginary Thiltapes, while at the same time facing their own demons: the weakened botanist eager for a discovery that will justify his trip and Ana intrigued by her father, suspected of having committed a brutal crime against a neighbor’s cow.

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"After a period in intensive care, Britney sets out on a road trip where time becomes entangled. Along the journey, she seeks to understand her relationship with people, with affection, and with her own body."

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Marcelo was taken to Paris, where he has lived since he was 12. After the sudden death of his mother in 1992, he returns for the first time to the place where he was born. As he walks through the city of his childhood, a series of memories unfolds, revealing a story of friendship torn apart by tragedy and the social tensions that marked Brazil in the 1960s, leading him to question his identity and his place in the world.

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Desire and guilt traverse the journey of Pássaro, the only son of the Tamai family, and Ângelo, the youngest son of the Miranda family and Marciano's brother. Living in a small town, Pássaro and Marciano were best friends as children, despite the constant tension that surrounded their neighbors. However, fights between their parents drove them apart and their friendship faded. Years later, Pássaro and Ângelo meet again at a party and become attracted to each other, experiencing a passion that defies prejudice and stigma. The relationship, however, provokes Marciano's anger and hostility and rekindles resentments of the enmity between the families.

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Luis Fernando Verissimo watches the world around him bristle as he approaches his 80th birthday.

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In 2022, P3RFEIT0 was sent to planet Earth on an interstellar mission to understand why some people are trying to escape from the planet. Upon arriving in Brazil, he understands the reasons.

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At the beginning of the 20th century, a German household attempts to stay isolated from their new surroundings, in the south of Brazil. Their fear, however, sets the way for conflict.

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In one night, Lucas, Luiza and Bia remember the pains and delights of being who they are.

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Five adolescents in a conservative community experience strange transformations in their bodies. Faced with rejection in the town and the fear of adult life, thye must decide if they accept their dragon aspect or conform to the tedium and local conventions. The Dragons is an immersion in the fantastic universe do writer Murilo Rubião.

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A baby is born, but does not cry. A body screams and is not heard. Paints that run in a promised future do not reach a person with a disability. Victor makes himself the canvas in a universe of absent painters.

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A portrait of five people who were important to the filmmaker when he was a child. Apart from a few childhood photos, he himself remains out of the picture. He visits a teacher who used to take care of him, and a gay childhood friend. Their combined stories—about exclusion and terror, but also love—paint a portrait of a small, somewhat oppressive community and a boy who lost his sense of security within it, despite the help he was offered. In his wistful look at the past, Barreto transcends his personal experiences; anyone can identify with his bittersweet journey.

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Brazil, 1961. In the underground of the Piratini Palace, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, awaits a bombing by the Brazilian armed forces. The country is on the verge of a civil war, following the resignation of president Jânio Quadros and the movement to keep vice-president João Goulart from taking office. Using the radio transmitter from his improvised bunker, Brizola sets up the Legality movement, to ensure Goulart's right to the presidential chair. Caught in the crossfire, two brothers who are in love with the same woman unite to fight alongside Brizola.

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The young poet Cristal Rocha, winner of the Slam Brasil 2017 circuit, reflects on what Censorship means for the Brazilian peripheral black population.

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During the International day, a fifth-grade class starts a small revolution in the school rules.

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Adri is a young woman newly formed arts in college who divides her time between the single friend, employment and therapy. One day she meets Mona, a well-connected architect and money. On the stairs of a building in Porto Alegre, a passion born of two very different people.

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The short film produced by Fronteiras do Pensamento in partnership with Okna Produções reflects on the connection between people in contemporary times. The film by Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher shows people walking in the streets, lost under the gaze of cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah. We are all together, but we don't always realize it.

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Camel on the Tarmac is made of two movements: the walking and the feeling. Walking under the sky of platinum winter; and on the asphalt. Feeling under the silence of the journey; relive the emotional memories. Peter walks and feel; walks and crosses the border between sister countries, Brazil and Uruguay. Follows in search of man who, like him, live recluse addition in their own digressions: his father.

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Feature length documentary about the Brazilian painter Iberê Camargo, one of the greatest expressionist artists from his country, commissioned by the Iberê Camargo Foundation for the occasion of the celebration of his centenary. Narrated by Iberê himself, the film was made with the artist's home videos, archival footage and contains the first ever shooting of a script the artist wrote and never produced, revealing the landscape of memory and the artist's pictorial and literary work.

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The impact of the World Cup on a humble community neighbouring the Beira-Rio stadium, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Without access to the big event, the residents of Vila Gaúcha find other ways to fill their lives, even though they live so close to the big party.

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With a suitcase in hand, a son arrives to visit his elderly mother.

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Santiago, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne, Paris, London, Porto Alegre, Sao Paulo. The cities that witnessed the brief life of the poet, playwright and writer Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-1996) are now revisited and covered with fragments of his works and memories of his friends, such as Maria Adelaide Amaral, Grace Gianoukas and Adriana Calcanhoto.

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