Scheduling

20/06

19h

Overture

If I’m Here It’s By Mystery | Clari Ribeiro | 21 min | RJ | Indicative Classification: 16 years
Dahlia, a renowned witch, arrives in Novo Rio in 2054 with a mission to found the most powerful clan and defeat the Order of Truth. In a future where being trans is common, being a witch is a rare gift.
– Course in Festivals and Exhibitions: World Premiere at the 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam and National Premiere at the 27th Tiradentes Film Festival. He participated in the Peripheral Views in Rio de Janeiro, 13th Olhar de Cinema-Curitiba International Cinema Festival and 13th Rio LGBTQIA+ Film Festival.

Levante | Lillah Halla | 99min | RJ | Indicative rating: 16 years
Sofía, a young volleyball player, sees her future threatened by an unwanted pregnancy. Seeking to interrupt her pregnancy in a clandestine way, the girl becomes the target of extremists.
– Course in Festivals and Exhibitions: the feature film premiered worldwide during the Critics’ Week of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in 2023 and went through more than 20 festivals, such as Mix Brasil 2023, where it received the Golden Rabbit Award for Best Feature Film, Suzy Capó Award for Best Actress, Silver Rabbit for Best Performance; and at the Rio Festival in 2023, where it received the awards for Best Fiction Direction and Best Editing.

After the screening, we will have a debate with Lorre Mota, who acts in both films.

21/06

14h
Animal Device – Body awareness workshop for a dialogue between expression and movement, with Lorre Yégo Motta
The workshop addresses the street experience as an experiment with hypervisibility, which is the tension of having all your gestures assisted, like a bull in a ceramic store.
– Registrations can be made in person, on the day of the workshop, starting at 10 am.
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Pedro’s Horse | Daniel Nolasco | 24min | RJ | Indicative Classification: 18 years
While Pedro Américo denies that he fabricated fake news, Paulo Setúbal reveals the Emperor’s intimate secrets.
– Course in Festivals and Exhibitions: The short film was screened at the 31st Mix Brasil Festival where it received the Silver Rabbit Award – Best Screenplay Jury Prize. The film was also screened at the 12th Tiradentes Show.

The Pleasure Is All Mine | Vanessa Sandre | 18 min | SC | Indicative Classification: 14 years
When Amélia realizes that she has never had an orgasm in her 76 years of life, everything changes. Now she’s determined to have one, no matter what it takes.
– Course in Festivals and Exhibitions: The film went through more than 20 festivals and received 13 awards, such as Best Film by popular vote and Honorable Mention at the V TRANSFORMA – Santa Catarina Diversity Film Festival.

Real Man | Rafael Rudolf | 18min | SP | Indicative Classification: 18 years
A boy dreams of being a man like the ones he wants. Does the man who becomes live as he imagined?
– Course in Festivals and Exhibitions: The work has been shown at more than 10 Exhibitions and Festivals, such as the 31st Mix Brasil Festival and the Porn Film Festival Berlin 2023.

27 | Flóra Anna BUDA | 10min, France and Hungary | Indicative rating: 18 years
Alice, 27, lives with her parents and takes refuge in dreams. After a psychedelic party, she is drunk and has a bicycle accident. Is this the time to mature?
– Course in Festivals and Exhibitions: The short film won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023, in addition to participating this year in the Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival 2023.

Pirinepolynda | Tita Maravilha, Izzi Vitória and Bruno Victor | 24min, GO | Indicative classification: Free
In Pirenópolis, Goiás, the Feast of the Divine has been taking place 200 years ago. Tita was born in the small town and has precious emotional memories about the party. Years later, by revisiting these memories, the artist intends to reconstruct and re-traditionalize the party under a decolonial affective bias.
– Course in Festivals and Exhibitions: The film, in addition to being competing for the Grand Othello Prize, went through 10 Festivals and Exhibitions where it received 5 awards such as Best Film and Best Photography at the Festival For Rainbow in Ceará and Best Latin American Film at the Mostra Absurda in Pernambuco.

After the screening, we will have a debate with Daniel Nolasco, director of the short film “Pedro’s Horse” and Arly Arnaud, actress of the movie “The Pleasure is All Mine”.

22/06

19h
The Dead Mother’s Blade | Camilo Pellegrini | 4min | RJ | Indicative Classification: 12 years
Vida, a black trans woman, dumps her mother’s ashes alone on the beach. The mother emerges from the sea as a haunting, but disappears before the reunion. Vida regrets it.
– Course in Festivals and Exhibitions: It premiered at the Rio 2023 Festival, played in India at Bangalore Queer, Festival at Mix Brasil, Transforma Festival in Santa Catarina and Rio LGBTQIA+.

Mar.Ina | Collective Direction | 26min | MA | Indicative Classification: Free
A trans girl lives between two worlds: the human one and that of the Bumba-Boi, where she transforms into a Cazumba.
– Course in Festivals and Exhibitions: The short film was selected for the Competitive Show of the 47th Guarnicê Film Festival and for the Black Audiovisual Week in Pernambuco.

Every Night I’ll Be There | Suellen Vasconcelos and Tati Franklin | 72min | ES | Indicative Classification: 12 years
Mel, a transsexual hairdresser who, unable to attend the church she attended due to the rise of an ultraconservative government and the COVID-19 pandemic, decides to express her faith in an unusual way: every night, she brings posters to the church door, expressing her devotion and resistance.
– Course in Festivals and Exhibitions: The work had a total of 10 selections and received 7 awards for Best Direction and Performance at the 12th Curitiba International Festival – Olhar de Cinema; Best Actress, Soundtrack and Art Direction at the 17th For Rainbow; and Best Film by the Popular Jury and Best Performance at the 30th Vitória Film Festival.

After the screening, we will have a debate with Mel Corrêa, the protagonist of the movie “Every Night I’ll Be There”.