Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo

When Clarissa, a young copy editor, realizes that her father is destined to disappear, she proposes they complete an old, unfinished short story in an attempt to preserve his presence and legacy through the written word.

"And God said, Take thy son, and bring him to the land which I will show thee."

A free-spirited surfer who masters the hang-five — walking to the tip of the board and balancing on his toes — finds himself haunted by the characters from his girlfriend’s poems.

Jeanne has lost her own trail, forgotten the howl of our pack. Through the registry or maybe the quest for a path hidden by the metropolis, our character will discover possible traces, habitats and a huge construction that never stops.

Juliano is a young artist who lives a happy life with his boyfriend, Nuno, a 65-year-old man, until his relationship is shaken by the discovery that his partner has a degenerative disease.

A lonely lawyer is run over in front of the Consolação Cemetery, in São Paulo. Dead, he tries to get into the cemetery, but is impossible.

After many years estranged away, the last heiress of a Lebanese immigrant family returns to her childhood estate in order to sell it. But soon becomes ghostly obsessed with a set of voice recordings of her deceased relatives.

The soccer stadium Arena Corinthians was constructed in São Paulo’s Itaquera district, approximating the club structures to the biggest stronghold of its fans. Through filming the official tour at the arena and interviewing Corinthians soccer team supporters that live on its margins, the film shows the dubious relation that takes place between them.

'The Private from Odessa' is a portrait of Boris Schnaiderman, Brazil's most important translator and essayist on Russian literature and culture. Using different cinematic approaches, the film depicts Boris as he reflects on his personal experiences —his childhood in the 1920's Odessa, his experience as a Brazilian soldier during World War Two— and on his still evolving work as a translator and essayist.

In the late seventies, a group of Brazilian documentary filmmakers traveled to the ABC region in the suburbs of São Paulo with the purpose of recording a wave of worker strikes taking place in response to the negligence of the increasingly powerful and abusive automotive industry. Documenting striking women metal workers, Olga Futemma and Renato Tapajós’ Trabalhadoras Metalúrgicas is a particularly vigorous work among the films produced during this moment in São Paulo worker history. Scenes filmed during the first Congress of Metallurgical Women of São Bernardo and Diadema in 1978 are intercut with images documenting the appalling working conditions against which the women featured in the congress were striking.

Buying a book in 3 shots, buying a book in 9 shots. Or: a man finds the right book.

Mixing new images to existing São Paulo movies takes, the documentary presents the city from the perspective of five main attributes: transformation, anonymity, crowd, precariousness and dimension.