O Quadro

For years, together with his partners from the production company O Quadro, he has been betting on cinema as a tool to explore the typical issues of youth. In this film, Evandro Scorsin turns the cameras on himself as he deals with the dilemmas of the passing of time and the imposition of adulthood. In an exercise in autofiction where cinema and life merge, the film is also a cinematic love letter to the beloved masters (especially Nicholas Ray). Coming and going between two countries and times, it records the vertigo of displacement and the reinventions inherent to an immigrant experience.

With a broken heart thanks to the end of a relashionship, Giba wanders around. All of a sudden he meets his friend Conrado, who introduces him Bia.

After an ecstatic drunken party, a couple wakes up without any recollection of the events of the previous night. When they find traces of a possible hit and run on the car's bumper, they come to believe they may have committed murder.

Camila broke up with her boyfriend recently. She's been going out and spending time with her girlfriends and her dog.

Being sixteen it´s easy. Being sixteen and have to go to school every day, it´s not. It’s even harder being sixteen and have to go to school and fall in love with Fernando, the boy from the other class. It’s easy to be Jaqueline. But it sucks being Jaqueline and know Fernando doesn’t care at all.

Euller Miller is a young native Brazilian of kaiwá ethnicity who leaves his small village just outside of Dourados (MS) to study dentistry at a public university in the crowded capital city of the state of Paraná. The film follows the complex transition between two very different worlds and the search for new horizons without abandoning his indigenous roots.

Bruna makes out with Andre before his trip to the beach. After that, she spends the rest of the day with her best friend Jota.

Janco and Samuel own a detective agency, in school. While investigating the disappearance of a volleyball, Janco tries to approach Dariana, the girl he is in love with.

Four young people travel to a seaside town looking for fun. After a night of drunkenness, funny games and fooling around, they discover a pink and viscous goop that inexplicably seduces them. The fun is over, and one by one they begin to die.

Winter holidays. Monique goes to the beach with her parents. With no friends around, she tries to find something to do. Then she meets a young man on the volleyball court.

Eric is in love with his best friend Eduarda. But Michel is quicker and gets her heart first. At the kart tracks, Eric has a chance to beat his opponent in a wild competition. Love and speed, love for speed. Those were the Thunder Days.

“Almost Absent” ultimately refers to the gestures of a generation of films that have originated and developed amid the contexts and aesthetic restrictions of the pandemic. While elaborating these elements, the film also explores how our screen-mediated reality affects our way of looking at the world, and in what way this gaze allows us to reflect upon cinema.