Gustavo Vinagre

Pérolas

Gustavo Vinagre

Juliana Amato, Gustavo Vinagre

A couple in a bed. The young man wakes up, coughs a razor, leaves to shave then coughs up makeup and puts on makeup. The transformation can take place.

Filme-Catástrofe

Gustavo Vinagre

Julia Katharine, Gilda Nomacce

A trans woman, Anjélica, waits in her apartment while Lúcia changes the lock on her front door. While the lock is being changed, the two women converse and we learn more about their situation.

La llamada

Gustavo Vinagre

Lázaro Escarze, Alexei Hernández

Lázaro Escarze, an 87 years old revolutionary Cuban man, lives in a small village and will have his phone installed for the first time in his life. To whom will he call?

Os Cuidados Que Se Tem com o Cuidado Que os Outros Devem Ter Consigo Mesmos

Gustavo Vinagre

Caetano Gotardo, Nash Laila

Tan needs to cry.

Choclo

Caetano Gotardo

Caetano Gotardo, Gustavo Vinagre

The most mysterious object. The most concrete thing.

Filme para Poeta Cego

Gustavo Vinagre

Glauco Mattoso, Hugo Guimarães

Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own life, but the conditions he imposes raise difficulties to the work of the young director.

Deus tem AIDS

Fábio Leal, Gustavo Vinagre

Kaco Arancíbia, Paulx Castello

40 years after the beginning of the AIDS pandemic, seven artists and an activist doctor, all of them living with HIV, offer new images and perspectives to deal with serophobia in Brazil.

Just Past Noon on a Tuesday

Travis Mathews

Gustavo Vinagre, Ronaldo Serruya

Two strangers visit the penthouse of a recently deceased lover, only to find themselves learning more about each other.

Lembro Mais dos Corvos

Gustavo Vinagre

Julia Katharine

Julia Katharine, a Japanese-Brazilian trans woman, opens her door to the filmmaker. Before day breaks, she evokes her relationship with her parents, a young love that never was, her sleepless nights and her passion for cinema.

Fucking Different São Paulo

Luciana Lemos, Joana Galvão

Eleven filmmakers from São Paulo, Brazil, unleash a vibrant mix of voices in the fourth installment of producer Kristian Petersen's conceptual short-film series, which gives gay and lesbian filmmakers free reign to tell untold stories. Selections include Gustavo Vinagre's "Dykeland," about an all-girl rock band; Ricky Mastro's "Felizes Para Sempre," about a surprisingly happy marriage; and Joana Galvão's animated "Um Olhar."

Cristalino

Gustavo Vinagre

Yasser Ribeiro, Ariadna Delgado

São Paulo, in a dystopian future not so very far from the present. A virus is circulating, one that mainly attacks the brain and the ability to remember. A state that has forgotten a past marked by colonialism and dictatorship desperately awaits some indeterminate “Golden Phase.” Three young queer people drift through a city bled dry by the pandemic and rampant capitalism, remembering each another’s late lovers, sharing their experiences with HIV, getting makeup tips for masked faces and ultimately coming together with others forgotten by society for an antique revue in the salon of a singer named Mirta.

Menino Pássaro

Diogo Leite

Larissa Ballarotti, Fabiano Araújo

Gabriel is installed next to a tree in a noble neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Clarisse accompanies astonished and inert the treatment given to Gabriel, at the same time that leads a stagnant life and dependent of the mother.

Vil, Má

Gustavo Vinagre

Wilma Azevedo, Edivina Ribeiro

In a salmon-coloured drawing room, a writer of sadomasochist literature now in her seventies narrates her turbulent, sexually explicit life story, once as her pseudonym and once as herself. What makes up a true biography, the real or the imaginary?

A Rosa Azul de Novalis

Rodrigo Carneiro, Gustavo Vinagre

Marcelo Diorio, Majeca Angelucci

Marcelo, a 40-year-old dandy, has a memory like no other. Monologuing between coffee and hookups, he holds court on a wide range of topics: his status, his Catholic grandmother, and his unusual sexual fantasies. At times, he takes himself for Genghis Khan or poet-philosopher Novalis.

Sol Alegria

Mariah Teixeira, Tavinho Teixeira

Mariah Teixeira, Joana Medeiros

While the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric family – a kind of Bonnie & Clyde with kids – trek through the Brazilian interior. Their first aim is to deliver a consignment of weapons to a group of militant nuns who have withdrawn to the jungle, living off the income from their cannabis plantation. As gay , bi, trans, the converts so organized to make revolution.

Cachorro

Gustavo Vinagre

Rodrigo Carneiro, Maurício Barcellos

Marcelo has just been dumped by his boyfriend, who doesn't answer his messages. In a desperate try to get his attention, he puts the life of their dog Greta at risk.