The tropical hall of the Düsseldorf Zoo is altered by the encounter between a woman and the crocodile keeper. While observing and being observed by crocodiles, they talk about family memories with reptiles in Colombia, ghosts, and the zoo's history.
REZBOTANIK
After partying with endless drugs and sex, Rezmorah goes to the Botanical Garden of Lisbon to get sober again. More than a park, the place is a living museum: amidst its tropical and exotic flora, Rez talks about their relationship with the night, with that space, and with gender, wondering...
ESCÔRPIONIKAS – CONTRAMANIFIESTO
In a fusion of manifesto and performance, the film traverses three continents following a collective of trans women, sex workers, and racially marginalized gender-dissident voices who confront colonial and patriarchal systems. It weaves together radical acts of resistance, performances, and interviews with archival footage from brothels in the Klondike (1890),...
SOMBRAS DE MACUMBA NA LUZ DA MEMÓRIA
Among the old pages of a newspaper archive, buried secrets emerge, revealing an old Rio de Janeiro steeped in mysteries, where shadows echo luminous songs and ancestral rituals endure eternally.
MANDINGA DE GORILA
In Vila Vintém (RJ), there is an unspoken entity, still very present in the history of the older residents. The strips of plastic bags that make up its body are the same that lead us to these hidden memories. The film evokes the manifest power of the Gorila de Saco...
A SPOT IN THE WORLD
In the middle of a strange mental breakdown connected to a new drug called "daisies", Franklin Cloud returns to the neighborhood he grew up in, wishing to find a place to start over, somewhere to belong… and some more “daisies”.
CONEX
A middle-aged man seeks refuge from the harsh and soulless world of society by escaping to a world he has created for himself.
BENEDITA
Volta Redonda, in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro. Subjected to a high-risk job at the steel mill where she works, Benedita begins to experience waves of heat that do not stop when she leaves her station. Overwhelmed by her routine, Benedita starts to melt.
PARADO MIRANDO
Rafael (28) is a poet living with his best friend. He has a dreary job in a gray office and a worn-out boyfriend whom he doesn't love but cares for. The city is collapsing under a heatwave that is causing adults to decay, but it also gives them the chance...
ESTRELA BRAVA
A star falls on Praia Brava. On a sunny winter day, a young man waits for his boyfriend on the beach while an alien murders beachgoers by mouth.