De Bubuia Cine

In 2019, the Brazilian government coordinates the largest and riskiest expedition of the last decades into the Amazon rainforest to search for a group of isolated indigenous people in vulnerability and promote their first contact with non-indigenous. Bruno Pereira, who would later be murdered in the same region and turned into an international symbol in favor of the indigenous and the forest, leads the expedition.

As his relationship with his actor partner deteriorates, a man tries to keep his old dream of becoming a theatre director alive by paying prostitutes to perform in plays.

An experimental visual essay on downtown São Paulo, built around encounters with men who, carrying advertising signs on their own bodies, become human billboards. Between the flow of urban life, the circulation of images, and the invisibility of these workers, the film creates a poetic portrait of the city and its contradictions.

A village lost in the wide open spaces of Brazil sets the scene for its inhabitants’ actions and memories. Actions that are immutable, memories that become legends. Buried in time that stands still, and marked by precise shot composition, Catuçaba is a baroque fairy-tale inhabited by ordinary people, reminiscent of a singular magical realism.

In the heart of São Paulo’s stark, arid city center, the enigmatic relationship between a man and a woman from different generations begins to reveal its tensions and secret obsessions, revolving around their shared fascination with a painting.

Moving is one of life’s most stressful experiences, as is having a child. Both at the same time: a recipe for chaos. This is what happens to an artist couple who leave São Paulo for a small village after the birth of their first child. The apparent tranquillity gradually turns into isolation. Blending animation and voice-over, the film explores the tensions and unspoken desires of a couple on the verge of breaking up.

In an abandoned boys’ school, a young couple and their baby find themselves trapped by an invisible threat. Psychological tension and veiled maternal rejection intensify in the face of the father’s incomprehension, driving their confinement towards a tragically inevitable outcome.