In order to invent a region, it is necessary to create its culture, preferably with the help of cinema. Inspired by the book and play “A Invenção do Nordeste”, this is a re-editing of Brazilian films essential to the foundation of the Northeastern imaginary.
Working as a TV host of an important political campaign for mayor, Luisa suffers with the professional relations with her co-workers. It’s the last week before the first round of local elections and Luisa, away from her hometown and family, discovers a serious scandal that could jeopardize the entire election. Not only must she now decide her fate, but that of an entire city.
Catarina is a researcher in quantum physics. She studies the sound spaces hidden in the variations of light. By immersing herself in the images she distorts, Catarina discovers a new form of sound spectrum, which seems to open an access to another temporality.
In Uberlândia in Brazil, Chico earns his living by repairing ovens, in which he enters easily thanks to his small size. Faced with the contempt of a system that relegates him to the ranks of the marginalized, he gradually enters into resistance.
Natal, 2022: A portrait and a historical document of the city, in time and space, based on eight real characters and urban landscapes. Romildo Soares, Vera Gomes, Moacir de Freitas, Dionila Morais, Amém Ore, Manoel "O Poeta da Passarela", Judson Andrade and Claudio Slayer talk about their lives, work and their experiences in Natal.
In Natal, on the Brazilian north coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with their two children near the space centre, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons.
Ília suffers from a syndrome named Capgras that prevents her from recognizing her own sister. What desperate ways will they have to take to keep themselves close to each other?
The quick response of a body in social isolation. The dancer moves alone in the living room of her apartment and expresses her feelings in the face of quarantine. A solo choreography of the automatic desires of a body that needs movement.
Summer comes to an end in the tropics and twilight begins in the City of the Sun. The turn of the decade is a trance of nostalgia, light and darkness.
Hate as a right is added to recycled images. Poetry is narrated on top of pictures that were not meant to be but, as stubborn as the poet's feeling, they exist.
