Social & External
The people behind it
Julia Testoni
Garota
Bárbara Portela
Vozes (V.O.)
In 1943, Joseph, a Jewish man, was arrested by the Germans in front of his 13-year-old daughter, Suzanne, in the apartment where they were hiding. By abandoning his daughter, Joseph saved her life.
An elementary school student named Ismail believes that there is a power to a smile. One day, he meets a hot-blooded math teacher that is a skeptic of smiles.
Yangon, 1998. A boy and his mother are waiting for the return of the father, a civil servant, to move out another town at Upper Burma. On the last evening the boy tries to understand the complexities of relationships.
An 80-year-old woman spends her time at a bus station. She’s waiting for the right moment to leave this place forever.
It is the story, the process of becoming more and simultaneously less than human through technology as it follows a few characters through this transformation of becoming.
After failing to get a commercial gig, Tiwi enrolls herself to a kite competition to earn money so she can help her dad.
Haunted by the ghosts of his past and his angst of his future Roman is determined to prove himself as a boxer. For this dream he is willing to give up on everything: his friends, his health, even his own self.
Everybody has their own dreams and fears. Are we all connected or are we really all alone in this world?
A young man grapples with addiction, recovery and a newfound sense of faith.
To take control of his life, Travis Wilker must conquer the hallucinations that plagued his childhood.
Under cover of darkness, two strangers bond over a shared secret. But how well do they really know each other?
Damri sells his car with his blind daughter. In the process of selling, he has to make a decision that shows off his worst side of humanity.
A football hooligan feels unconditional love for his club. However, being gay, he has to hide his identity in order to survive in this world that is so precious to him.
Arthur is a single dad, struggling with the care for his seven-year-old son Max and the combination of his secret life as a drag queen.
A message from Javier's boyfriend changes his family situation and causes them to reconsider their relationships.
A small-time, down-on-his-luck actor is visited by an extraterrestrial being, who helps him rediscover inspiration in his life
Chen Hao-Zhi lives alone with his Grandmother who has Alzheimers and has suffered from a stroke. In order to pay the bills and his grandmother's medical expenses, he goes to work in a gay massage parlor. At first, it was just work...but Hao-Zhi soon finds that he is attracted to some of his clientele, and gets pulled into a world where he loses control of things he thought he could handle.
Under the threat of a hurricane pending over the city, Lubrini is looking for his lover, who disappeared in the streets of Havana.
A student in her final year of high school battles a silent illness, which she hides from her mother, as she continues to be quietly overwhelmed by the pressures of family, peers and society.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
The story of Prince Hal who sets out to avenge his dead father against the city's rivals, the Zeriths, little knowing it was his wicked uncle Nezo who is the real killer, with his own designs on the throne.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he fights for survival....
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
A disillusioned psychologist tries to commit suicide until he strikes up a friendship with an unlikely saviour who teaches him a new way of living.
Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.
Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to be.
After a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to create again.
