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- DirectorJorge FurtadoStarsPaulo JoséCiça ReckziegelDouglas TraininiThe ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in "Ilha das Flores"; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people.
- DirectorJorge FurtadoStarsJanaína Kremer MottaFelipe MônacoNélson DinizA couple's last moments: their meetings, separations and a sandwich.
- DirectorMariana BastosEsmir FilhoRafael GomesStarsMaria Alice VergueiroMeet a Brazilian lady who uses marijuana for more than thirty years and shares her experiences with the drug.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsLuciano Arrais AndradeGraça AraújoPedro BandeiraIn tropical Recife, in northeastern Brazil, temperatures drop to impossible lows and the inhabitants have to adapt. This 'mockumentary' gradually turns critical, looking at the climate, urban development and social interaction from every angle. Does a ray of sun pierce the clouds, after all?
- DirectorKunio KatoStarsMasami NagasawaTo save his house from rising flood waters, an old man uses bricks to build it higher, then he relives events from his past while searching for his dropped pipe.
- DirectorRené GuerraStarsThalia BombinhaPhedra de CórdobaRoberta GretchenCristiane Jordan, or Cris Negão, as she was called, was a transvestite who worked as a bawd in downtown of São Paulo known by her violent methods to control the other transvestites. Hated and feared by a legion, she also had her fans until she was tragically murdered with two shots in the head. The documentary is a dive into the transvestite universe through the stories of this legendary character of São Paulo's underworld.
- DirectorRoger AllersA poor young girl has a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life. Desperate to keep warm, the girl lights the matches she sells, and envisions a very different life for herself in the fiery flames.
- DirectorTravis MathewsIn Their Room (2009-present) is an on-going multi-city documentary series about gay men, bedrooms and intimacy. The series veers into the bedrooms of men where you see them doing everything from the most banal to the sometimes more erotic. Complimenting the revealing nature of their everyday activities are confessional interviews about fantasies, turn-ons and vulnerabilities. The throughline of the series highlights the ways in which gay men in disparate cultures deal with connection, intimacy and loneliness in the modern world. In an age of accelerated gay acceptance and visibility, it's shocking that many of these stories are being left undocumented. My inspiration for the series came largely out of such a frustration. If representations of my life -and that of my friends- were largely going unseen in the media I reasoned that I should be recording these stories before they were lost or forgotten. I do this as best I can focusing on what feels authentic, modern and uncensored. The series is intended as a long-term, multi-city project with recent episodes filmed in San Francisco and Berlin. The next episode is London.
- DirectorJoana GalvãoCarolina MarkowiczStarsClaudeteEmilia da LuzSilvania de Castro MatiasA short documentary that deals with a peculiar fact from the infamous Luz Square, at downtown São Paulo: the veteran female prostitutes. They reveal their working experiences going from amusing situations with clients and some other absurd, and what brought them to such work.
- DirectorJames Ford MurphyStarsNapua GreigKuana Torres KaheleMuneer LyatiA story that takes place over millions of years and is inspired by the beauty of tropical islands and the allure of ocean volcanoes.
- DirectorAugusto CananiStarsÁurea BaptistaArlete CunhaDiego de LimaA weird trainee. A stifling job. In the midst of corporate oppression, a worker passively fights back with stories from home.
- DirectorHumberto MauroStarsMateus ColaçoThe short illustrates a Brazilian folk song in which a being or entity is always predating another being, but is in its turn predated by some other animal, until the circle closes. It begins like this: an old woman is quietly weaving and a fly disturbs her; a spider eats the fly; a mouse eats the spider; a cat chases the mouse and so on...
- DirectorPeter AhlénStarsNicolas WollesenMads HjulmandSofie Topp-DuusMørke Rum (Perpetual) is an unconventional love story that centers around a private booth at a seedy sex club. The young Sebastian explores his sexuality and seeking sex/love online. He meets the older Jacob, who takes him to a sex club. In the new and frightening surroundings Sebastian surrenders and in their subsequent meetings love sprouts, at least for Sebastian. Outside the darkness of intense togetherness, the reality penetrates. Jacob is full of lust and not love. So when Sebastian's hopes are disappointed and Jacob pulls away, Sebastian returns to the dark room to restore the lost with a stranger
- DirectorLívia PerezStarsSonia AbrãoLindemberg Fernandes AlvesWilliam BonnerIn 2009, 22-year-old Lindemberg Alves invaded the apartment of ex-girlfriend Eloá Pimentel, 15, armed, holding her hostage for five days. The crime was widely spread by TV channels. This brings a critical analysis on the spectacularization of violence and the television media approach in cases of violence against women.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsVerônica AlvesIvan SoaresGabriela SouzaMother gives Daughter a box full of old, colored little vinyl records. Daughter may listen to them, but she should never, ever, play the green one.
- DirectorDomee ShiStarsSindy LauKai LiSharmaine YeohA Chinese-Canadian woman suffering from empty nest syndrome gets a second shot at motherhood when one of her handmade dumplings comes alive.
- DirectorFáuston da SilvaStarsAndré Araújo BezerraJuliana DrummondAbaeté QueirozA boy finds a book by Nietzsche in his town's dumping ground, and that book changes everything in his life.
- DirectorEsteban BravoBeth DavidStarsNick AinsworthKelly DonohueA boy has a crush on another boy and he is too shy to confess, but his heart is not so reticent.
- DirectorBrad BirdStarsBret 'Brook' ParkerBud LuckeyEli FucileThe Parrs' baby Jack-Jack is thought to be normal, not having any super-powers like his parents or siblings. But when an outsider is hired to watch him, Jack-Jack shows his true potential.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsVincent PriceYoung Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.
- DirectorChloë SevignyStarsEdie YvonneIone SkyeLee MeriwetherA little girl dreams of becoming a kitten.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsSabrina LloydParker PoseyExperimental short film in which two women secluded in an apartment impersonate the promised benefits and investment risks of real estate purchases, but as people, instead of as the land value with buildings and resources involved in it.
- DirectorChris WedgeA dog balloon and a humanoid balloon float around and interact with each other.