Helvécio Marins Jr.
2021
Fernando que Ganhou um Pássaro do Mar
Helvécio Marins Jr., Felipe Bragança
Ash Ashaninka, Nicholas Bartolo
A simple Portuguese-Brazilian song. Fernando spends his time in Porto in the neighborhood of Fontainhas between a small house and a local café. A parrot reaches him from Brazil, which evokes paradise in his imagination. This gives rise to a Portuguese-Brazilian correspondence. A game of mirrorings develops over the exchange of letters between the two friends, in which ideas of each other’s country are reflected.
Fernando Who Received a Bird from the Sea
Desassossego (Filme das Maravilhas)
Helvécio Marins Jr., Raphael Mesquita
Rômulo Braga, João Pedro Zappa
An experimental collective film lasting little more than an hour, compiled from 10 episodes by a total of 14 different young Brazilian filmmakers. The project was an initiative of the directing duo Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande, who sent a ‘letter of concern’ to inspire the participants. In it, a 16-year-old girl wrote about her dreams, which have been translated by the directors into films about love, youth and the possibilities of cinema.
Neverquiet (Film of Wonders)
Querência
Helvécio Marins Jr.
Marcelo di Souza, Kaic Lima
In the bucolic countryside of Brazil, Marcelo, an easygoing cowboy at a cattle farm lives for one passion: rodeos. One tragic incident affects him deeply. Little by little he overcomes the trauma and is ready to dream again.
Homing
O Canto do Rocha
Helvécio Marins Jr.
Alfredo Rocha
The stories, adventures and misadventures of Alfredinho Rocha, a fado singer, a Karate fighter, a former drug dealer, an owner of a cafe in Fontainhas, Oporto, a nutter, a dancer, a nightingale and a whole family.
The Song of the Nightingale
