Sílvio Restiffe
2021Palíndromo
Philippe Barcinski
Eucir de Souza, Sílvio Restiffe
A word or phrase whose meaning does not change whether spelt backwards or forwards. A young man loses everything he has in one day. He is fired from his job, kicked out of his hotel, betrayed by his colleagues and turned down by an old flame. We see this ordinary tale told backwards in time
Palindrome
Tatuagem
Hilton Lacerda
Irandhir Santos, Jesuíta Barbosa
Paulete, the star of a daring theater group, is visited by his military brother-in-law, the young Fininha. A torrid relationship arises between the two, and now the soldier must deal with the prevailing repression during the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Tattoo
São Paulo com Daniel
Nicolas Thomé Zetune, Deborah Viegas
João Paulo Bienermann, Sílvio Restiffe
Obstinate Daniel’s grumpiness is evident. He really doesn’t want to accompany his mother to an oncology conference. However, an unexpected meeting makes it an interesting weekend after all. Shot on grainy film stock, with camera work as uncompromising as Daniel is.
Daniel in the Lions' Den
Descompasso
Jasmin Tenucci
Gilda Nomacce, Lourenço Mutarelli
Lucia understands the world through sounds. She, as the people the surrounds her, struggles in the pursuit of relating with others. Her particular perspective, however, will turn that gap of communication even bigger.
Descompasso
Jardim Europa
Mauro Baptista Vedia
Ester Laccava, Laerte Melo
A decadent upper class family of mother and three grown-up children who lives in one of the richest neighborhoods of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is faced with the past as the long estranged father, who supposedly was the cause of the family's ruin, returns and accommodates himself in the house as if nothing had changed.
Jardim Europa
O Pequeno Mal
Nicolas Thomé Zetune, Lucas Camargo de Barros
Janaina Afhonso, João Paulo Bienermann
In Sao Paulo, Janaína and João take care of each other. She has epilepsy. He is in a relationship with a man who prefers to keep his distance. Above their lives floats the vague trauma of a mudslide that may have buried men and machines alike. Together, they try to protect their bodies from the evil that seems to spread like a fever.
Petit Mal
A Serpente
Jura Capela
Matheus Nachtergaele, Lucélia Santos
Two sisters live in the same house with their husbands in bedrooms separated by a single wall. One of the sisters, Lígia, is still a virgin. Dissatisfied, she wants to dissolve the marriage and thinks about suicide. To prevent her sister’s suicide, Guida offers her own husband, Paulo, for one night.
The Serpent
