Curtas - 2018

Nadia is a transvestite who wants to be a mother. She will be a mother. She is a mother.

In a city in the interior of Brazil called Serra da Onça, the members of the Taurus Party believe to be sovereign over women, workers and land, of which are acquired by means of false property titles. Manuel Tenório is the leader of these men, He personally goes to the house of the widow Dona Iara to decree the departure of the farmer and her daughters. In refusing to leave, they are victims of a massacre, of which Carolina, the eldest daughter, survives. She is taken to the big house, where dozens of workers are subjected to conditions analogous to slavery.

Anne knows, the skin is not the limit.

Rosa was kicked out of her home after come out as a trans woman. She then moves to a shack of her own located at the Favela da Prainha. But eventually an expansive project of a port completely changes the neighborhood around her and other people living there.

Simone, Thiana and Michel are young friends living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Simone looks for a job, Thiana tries to be a doctor and Michel still don't know what to do. Amidst the demands of the beginning of adulthood, a historic event in May 2006 changes the course of their lives forever.

In September 2012, the mayor of Borá, in the interior of São Paulo, posted a text on Facebook.

Ozório is a senior citizen who lives all by himself on an isolated rural district. He spends his days listening to rock music, at the same time he mourns his deceased wife. Things doesn't change much until one day a strange movement in the skies breaks his routine.

Luiz Roberto Galizia died very young, but he left behind a wealth of personal archives. 30 years later, his niece Ana Galizia plunges into these archives to follow the traces of this uncle she never met.

A young woman in search of a better life utilizes a Norwegian market ready to sell her goods.

Using his failed attempts at creating profitable stock footage, a filmmaker reflects on the absurd, mundane and funny side of being trapped inside your own head as an out of work, self-employed freelancer.

SMILF is about Bridgette Bird, a young single mother struggling to balance her old life of freedom with her new life as mom. This all comes to a head when Bridgette invites an old acquaintance over to her studio apartment while her son takes a nap.

A woman is excited about the approaching birth of her first child.

Robert Maillart elegantly found ways to use concrete to overcome distances between banks, or to support a roof.

A hypnotic, apocalyptic examination of false choices, double binds, vulnerability and faith.

A black and bloody Irish comedy about a sad train journey where an older man, whose wife has died that morning, encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball....

Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.

A place with nebulous frontiers and laws. Characters captured in an existence whose outlines flee the camera's gaze. Such is the world of the old fairground located in the Arab League Park in Casablanca that Randa Maroufi leads us into. Actions frozen in gestures of exchange, expectation and aggression are played out following a score conducted by the artist who, in the manner of Eric Baudelaire, uses composition to explore reality. But this reality is also virtual, for these scenes come in part from a repertoire of violent self-representations found on the Internet. The artist reprises their vocabulary. Violence, she tells us, is a language, and its interpretation is a matter of context. A strange vitality emanates from the gentle immobility of the silent travelling shot that drifts through the scenes acted out by the local inhabitants, whether simply passing through or precarious residents. Like the roughness of the vegetal and urban architecture of the abandoned park, these existences are not festive, yet they celebrate life's endurance, a vital energy that is hidden yet tenacious. Maroufi's Le Park escapes along each hidden path, leading us on in a gentle dream whose outcome is never revealed to us. Indifferent to our presence, it murmurs its silent rhythm. These scenes, these lives - the artist began by approaching them with restraint, then trust, and always with respect. Without ever seeking to appropriate the indomitable park or the existences that inhabit it, Maroufi leads us into an intimate world on the threshold of an intensity at once real and fantasised. The artist thus draws, incisively yet delicately as if with a metal tip, a forgotten tale at the heart of the city but on the margins of the world.

A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.

A girl from a very religious family seeks about her own paradise.

When Fannie offers her father to cut his hair, he accepts. Alain knows that his daughter will do it carefully and thoroughly, as usual. But an outside incident change their plans and confront the precariousness of this shared moment. The cut tells the story of a father and a daughter, between proximity and detachment, for the moment of an haircut.