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2023 Lineup

Bittersweet Rain

Directed by: Haroldo Borges
Brazil / 107 min / 2022

Bruno is a young, fatherless teenager living in a small town in the Brazilian heartland who confronts a degenerative eye disease that will ultimately leave him blind.

Property

Directed by: Daniel Bandeira
Brazil / 101 min / 2023

Teresa and her husband travel to their family farm to take refuge from urban violence. But there they face a revolt by local workers, alarmed by the imminent loss of their homes. She locks herself in her armoured car, but is unable to start it. Meanwhile, workers try to communicate with her and if necessary, take her out by force. The layer of armour that separates these two universes may not be enough to contain the fear and violence that grows every passing minute.

The Intrusion

Directed by: Flora Dias and Juruna Mallon
Brazil / 105 min / 2023

It centers on how the name of Brazil's biggest airport, Guarulhos, references the fact that it was built on indigenous territory. It follows a member of the ground staff as she seeks her roots beneath the runway.

The Buriti Flower

Directed by: João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora
Brazil / 123 min / 2023

Patpro, recounting the history, struggle for land took place in 1940. Krahô never stop inventing new forms of resistance , guided by their ancestral rites, and their fight to preserve their freedom.

A Strange Path

Directed by: Guto Parente
Brazil / 83 min / 2023

As a virus spreads throughout Brazil, a young filmmaker goes back to his hometown and tries to rekindle his relationship with his father. But as they become closer, stranger events start to happen, making their connection more difficult.

FYC Night

Directed by: Carlos Segundo, Morzaniel Ɨramari, Eliza Capai
14 min / 17 min / 93 min

Big Bang: 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. /// Mãri Hi: When the flowers of the Mãri tree blossom, dreams arise. The words of a great shaman guide an oniric experience through the synergy between cinema and the Yanomami dream, presenting poetics and teachings of the forest people. /// Incompatible with Life: From her personal experience of a pregnancy with diagnosis of fetal malformation incompatible with life, a filmmaker sheds light onto women who went through a similar situation in Brazil, where abortion may lead to prison. The film creates a choir of voices that reflects on motherhood and grief.

Big Bang

Directed by: Carlos Segundo
Brazil / 14 min / 2023

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.

Mãri Hi - The Tree of Dream

Directed by: Morzaniel Ɨramari
Brazil / 17 min / 2023

When the flowers of the Mãri tree blossom, dreams arise. The words of a great shaman guide an oniric experience through the synergy between cinema and the Yanomami dream, presenting poetics and teachings of the forest people.

Incompatible with Life

Directed by: Eliza Capai
Brazil / 93 min / 2023

From her personal experience of a pregnancy with diagnosis of fetal malformation incompatible with life, a filmmaker sheds light onto women who went through a similar situation in Brazil, where abortion may lead to prison. The film creates a choir of voices that reflects on motherhood and grief.

All That You Could Be

Directed by: Ricardo Alves Jr.
Brazil / 83 min / 2023

It’s Aisha’s last day in Belo Horizonte. We follow her farewell in the company of her best friends: Bramma, Igui and Will. Through the everyday life and encounters between the characters, the film weaves an affectionate portrait of a family that is built by choice, through the value of friendship.