Charito dedicated herself to recording each and every family celebration with her VHS camera. In those records, the family group seems to be happy and Charito’s mother seems to be the center of the parties. But the emotive images are completely different from the current reality, where a distant family avoids talking about the reasons of the breakdown.
Chile 2021
Enzo Destefani Espinosa
25:00 min
Spanish with English subtitles
Short / Docu
In the Ribeira Valley in southeastern São Paulo, a cooperative of Quilombola farmers is coming together to combat the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. They developed an emergency plan to distribute organically grown food from their traditional farms to vulnerable communities in the Favelas.
Brazil 2022
Manoela Meyer, Roberto Almeida
22:37 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles
Short / Docu
An archaeologist, a poet, a preacher and a kujá, a teacher and a rap singer retrace the history of the Laklãnõ/Xokleng people, inhabitants of southern Brazil: the old times of the forest, the near-extinction, the rescue of the language and culture and the placement in the political spotlight.
Content Alert: Colonialist violence is thematized.
Brazil 2022
Barbara Pettres, Flávia Person, Walderes Coctá Priprá
25:00 min
Portuguese with English subtitles
Short / Docu
A candy wrap turned into a boat, it will survive adventures that lead it to create environmental awareness.
Ecuador 2021
Alejandro Espejo
03:38 min
Short / Animation / Student Project
Bugs is a young country boy who, after the end of the world and years of waiting for signs of other survivors, encounters an extraterrestrial cosmonaut. While Bugs helps him repair his spacecraft, he develops a deep affection for him and wishes to keep him on Earth. However, as the cosmonaut is dying, Bugs must find a way to save him before it’s too late.
Colombia2022
Pablo Sánchez
19:59 min
Spanish with English subtitles
Short / Fiction / Student Project
Motherhood is so multifaceted that it is impossible to fully comprehend. “M” creates space for the diverse realities and experiences of women in their roles as mothers.
Content Alert: Unwilling motherhood/Unwilling childlessness
Ecuador 2022
Mariuxi Alemán
20:00 min
Spanish with English subtitles
Short / Docu / Student Project
Estelar works in a psychiatric hospital and has visions of the past of the neighborhood where she lives and works: at Colônia Juliano Moreira, in Rio de Janeiro. During a water crisis in the state, she welcomes Kalil – her younger brother – to live in her house, once he has been approved at the public university to study music. Amidst the political absurdities that surround Brazil, Estelar will realize that it takes courage to review her conservatives speeches and positions.
Content Alert: Misgendering of a trans person by family members.
Brazil 2022
Lorran Dias
50:00 min
Portuguese with English subtitles
Short / Fiction / Experimental
