2021 - Curtas e Médias

The story of a family who has their lives crushed by the tragedy of the floods in Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

On an average day, Greg's life is filled with family, love and a rambunctious little dog - but despite all of this, Greg has a secret. Today is different, because he might learn that he has nothing to hide.

Yacine and his friends plan to sneak into 'Fast and Furious 8' by buying cheaper tickets to the film 'Bicycle Thieves.' When the time comes to cut and run, Yacine can't seem to tear himself away from the Italian neorealist classic.

A car drives along the French coasts. Inside, a father takes his daughter to Paris to begin her student life, a new life in an unknown city, far from her childhood and far from him. This one to one journey is their first, maybe their last. Nothing seems exceptional but both of them know they'll have to say goodbye.

Summertime. Jules, 18 years old, seeks to live a first love, despite his troublesome, excentric mother.

Daniel copes as best he can with his mother who is desperate to receive news from his father. When the latter finally turns up at Daniel's place the day before her sex change operation so she can become Lisa, Daniel must force his father to at last tell the truth.

A couple on the roads of Provence. Nils is driving Flora to his parents for the first time when they get ambushed. Whilst she's made prisoner, he flees. During a night in the pinewood, she has to face her doubts.

Alice gets lost in a hospital's maze of corridors, driven by the urgency of settling scores with an attacker from her past, who is now dying. It's a race against the clock to at last speak about the pain caused.

Geoffroy de Crécy imagines a hypnotic world where, in supermarkets, airports, offices, discotheques, every human trace has disappeared.

In a stray-dog refuge in Morocco, time seems to stand still for the 750 animals waiting to be adopted, their lives following a precise, monotonous routine.

A young man is sexually assaulted and subdues, punishes, then befriends his own attacker while confronting his past and the ambiguities of sexuality. Part fiction, part non-fiction, part autobiography and part dream, Friend of a Friend attempts to broaden the conversation around abuse and its motivations and implications, as well as the survivor vs. assailant dynamic and results of ostracism.

Produced during the COVID-19 pandemic, "Republic" is a short film written, directed and produced by Grace Passô from the invitation of the Moreira Salles Institute (IMS).

In 1966, José Sarney was elected governor of Maranhão for the first time. To register his inauguration speech and his political pledge to the population of the state, the politician invited the main figure of the Cinema Novo, the great filmmaker Glauber Rocha, to capture everything and turn into a great event. However, Rocha's nervous camera and combative spirit end up capturing a lot more than what Sarney had expected, by showing the contrast between the eloquent words spoken about progress and the harsh reality faced by the poor people.

One morning an eclectic mix of people face the everyday battle - such as work, school and dish-washing. As the day progresses, their relationships are tested and ultimately their capacity to cope.

A man trying to get home to his dog gets stuck in a time loop that forces him to relive a deadly run-in with a cop.

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?

When a corrections officer is transferred to the letter room, he soon finds himself enmeshed in a prisoner's deeply private life.

A late-night encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man.

A rabbit attempts to dig a burrow and learns there's no shame in asking for help.

One night, Reine, a young loner, sees the urban chaos as a mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.

Our society and history, which is filled with beauty and absurdity.

A man finds his stolen bicycle, which now belongs to a stranger. While attempting to retrieve it, he struggles to remain human.

The injustice surrounding the shooting death of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins at a South Central Los Angeles store became a flashpoint for the city’s 1992 civil uprising.

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.