Sometimes one, orphaned of one's own lungs, feels that one is drowning. One suddenly remembers the body, breathes again, and begins to laugh. To laugh very hard. To run around the corners of the world breathing and laughing. Yulieth talks to her mother. She dances. She floats on the water. She laughs.
Under a full sun that turns the wide pastures and woods around a house into an idyllic playground, a boy plays with his father to be a man. In the midst of the greenery, the aggressiveness is heartwarming: the father teaches him boxing and with it, the responsibility and restraint that come with mastering one's own body; the boy listens to rap and caresses chicks. Masculinity and childhood are documented in a contradictory, sweet and incautious nature. Seen in this light, the images of upbringing can convince us: love and virtue are built and transmitted in small lessons.
Forenses (Coroners) interweaves three stories around disappearance and the collective memory in Colombia. The cartography of the country is transformed into a spectral map and the territory and the body merge with the geography. There, the disappeared share the same destiny: to exist, to persist and to resist in the image.
An essay on prostitution constructed in two layers: four interviews and the interventions of four contemporary dance choreographers, who explore its formal dimension through movement.
Forensic anthropologists use laser technology to search for clandestine graves of the dictatorship in the scrubland. Valeria, the daughter of disappeared people, coordinates the search. Otilia, Mother of Plaza de Mayo, awaits news of the past.
After surviving the massacre in which the police killed ten landless workers in Pará’s Amazon region, Fernando dos Santos becomes the only survivor to reveal his identity and testify. Still shaken, he recounts how the police murdered his boyfriend and tortured his companions, yet the film portrays him as far more than a victim: a courageous man who left the city’s comfort to chase the dream of owning land, using humor and intelligence to endure the solitude of being a gay man in rural Brazil. Alongside him is José Vargas, an idealistic lawyer defending the survivors and their right to justice. As he faces threats and isolation, the film exposes the human cost of truth, resilience, and the struggle for dignity in a land scarred by violence and inequality.
Using the camera as a weapon to defend their ancestral land in Brazil, three women of the Daje Kapap Eypi audiovisual collective lovingly record their Munduruku traditions and their mythology of humans transforming into forest plants and animals.
Even at the age when changes in the body are expected, menstruation is still taboo for teenagers in Brazil. Mixing fiction and documentary, Menarca offers the space for a group of teenagers to talk about their cycles and how they affect menstruating bodies.
A young Afghan-Kiwi couple journey from New Zealand to Afghanistan to change 51 lives, including their own, in honor of those killed in a terrorist attack in their home town of Christchurch.