João Côrtes

By Those Hands that Lead Me tells the tale of Amora’s (Fernanda Marques) life: An orphan girl, who dreams of being a photographer. At 22, while working in a library with her friend Fran (Bruno Suzano), she goes through the challenges of becoming an independent woman, having to deal with the pain of losing her parents. The feature film debut of Brazilian actor/director João Côrtes, By Those Hands that Lead Me is a nuanced coming-of-age film about love, empowerment and overcoming your fears.

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Lust follows desire as sure as night follows day, but in these five stories from France, Switzerland, Brazil and Romania, reality takes an unexpected detour, and things turn out a little differently when sunrise comes.

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A young track and field athlete gets a full scholarship at a renowned university in Seattle. But, after a wild night of celebrating, she sleeps with her gay best friend and gets pregnant.

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By day, Olímpia runs the supermarket. By night, in the same space, Eraldo runs a samba school. With love and humor, they will go to great lengths to harmonize this unusual shared existence.

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Aracy de Carvalho is a young clerk at the Brazilian Consulate. For two years, she has been secretly issuing passports to Jews without the dreaded "J" stamp, which not only won't allow them to travel, but will doom them to the horrors of concentration camps. When newly appointed diplomat, João Guimarães Rosa, arrives in Hamburg, the two fall madly in love. Aracy would later be honored by the Yad Vashem with the Righteous Among the Nations Award. João would be known as the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century.

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After the death of what Gracinha - a ballerina - thought to be the soul of art, she faces a dilemma: can she carry on doing what she's always done, or should she start a search for something that could set her heart free?

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Tom, a conservative cisgender jock encounters Sarah, a non-binary person, in a university men’s toilets, but when he intends to leave, they have been accidentally locked in and are stuck together until morning.

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Tom, a conservative cisgender jock encounters Sarah, a non-binary person, in a university men’s toilets, but when he intends to leave, they have been accidentally locked in and are stuck together until morning.

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By Those Hands that Lead Me tells the tale of Amora’s (Fernanda Marques) life: An orphan girl, who dreams of being a photographer. At 22, while working in a library with her friend Fran (Bruno Suzano), she goes through the challenges of becoming an independent woman, having to deal with the pain of losing her parents. The feature film debut of Brazilian actor/director João Côrtes, By Those Hands that Lead Me is a nuanced coming-of-age film about love, empowerment and overcoming your fears.

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