Torquato Joel

The Paraíba backlands during the civil-military dictatorship of the 1960s. The boy Teobaldo faces the struggle between desire and repression when an enigmatic American researcher arrives at the Research Center of the National Department of Works Against Drought (DNOCS).

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The borderline conditions of a prospector's life to extract one of the raw materials that meets the demands of the technological world.

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When principles conflict with the rights of others, there is only one way out. *Film part of the 8 by 8 project: Renewal of the Super-8 cinema cycle in Paraíba.

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There are many ways to overcome the losses and drop-outs of childhood. Three boys reinvent the concept of family to face the traumas of their lives.

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Fire liquefies what is solid. Fire melts human illusions.

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The cycles of human occupation in one place: the rock inscriptions crystallized in the landscape as the last memory of an extinct people, the late afternoon ritual of an elderly couple, and the new times with other habits and customs brought by the dish.

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Allegory about man's relationship with power inspired by the imagination of the Paraíba poet Augusto dos Anjos.

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The Paraíba backlands during the civil-military dictatorship of the 1960s. The boy Teobaldo faces the struggle between desire and repression when an enigmatic American researcher arrives at the Research Center of the National Department of Works Against Drought (DNOCS).

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The borderline conditions of a prospector's life to extract one of the raw materials that meets the demands of the technological world.

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When principles conflict with the rights of others, there is only one way out. *Film part of the 8 by 8 project: Renewal of the Super-8 cinema cycle in Paraíba.

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