Studio Riff

It's election time for the student body. Four groups of students, with differing opinions and views of the world, create proposals, debate campaign strategies, and strive for improvements in school.

Paula, Beatriz, Giu and Fernando live in one of the poorest favelas of São Paulo. A world of marginalization and despair, in which they struggle for their rights as transgenders, but also for survival: according to the statistics from the Transgender Europe NGO, Brazil is the nation with the highest number of murders of transgender people each year. The choice to experience your body in complete freedom is a revolutionary concept and highly risky in this context. It is an affirmation of one's being. it is no coincidence that one of them, who has begun the transition phase writes in his diary: "Each hormone pill is a declaration of ownership of my body. After each pill, I feel much better in my own skin". This movie shows their daily life, their struggles and protests in a world where ignorance becomes oppression and hate: in a word transphobia.

Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.

With the rise of Neo-Pentecostalism in Brazil over the past decade, a popular phenomenon has emerged, taking over church pulpits and smartphone screens: religious preaching by children. Immersing himself in the family lives and faith of two young pastors from different generations, Antunes Ramos (director of “A Flecha e a Farda”, Olhar ’20) unveils the childhoods and youth behind their public personas, while offering glimpses into a country where politics and religion often intertwine.