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.

The short film depicts the life of a boy who is constantly sexually abused by his father. Leonardo Miggiorin brilliantly plays the role of this boy, who belongs to a poor and unstructured family.

A brief occurrence at the hospital waiting room.

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.

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.

Boy meets girl.

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

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.

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.

In the midst of a breathtaking landscape of mountains and lakes in China lies a hidden Taoist temple dedicated to Xiwangmu, a deity capable of granting immortality to those who achieve complete harmony with nature.

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.

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

Solano is often plagued by nightmares in which, during the Middle Ages, he is pursued by the hunter Faro, who intends to kill him. On discovering, in an antiquarian, a tapestry that represents a hunt and that reminds him of his dream, he tries to buy it, but the owner refuses to sell it.

João Lucas works at a video store and always ends up revealing the ending of films to customers. After being approached by a girl who always rents the same movie, the two eccentric characters start to argue about the true meaning of the plot and attract each other through their passion for cinema.

Images of the Minas Gerais backlands (human types, geographical aspects, domestic chores) with texts by Guimarães Rosa, extracted from Grande Sertão: Veredas.