Sessão: Block 1 - Gita

A boy explores the rural landscape on what seems to be a perfect day, until the countryside’s routine reveals a silent tragedy. A dialogue-free animation about the invisible impacts of pesticides.

Pirimín, a Kogui boy, receives a water gun as a gift. That night, he hears his father express his discontent, recalling how similar weapons forced them to abandon their settlements. Now, Pirimín does not know what to do with the toy.

At Christmas, Dejair tries to convince his family of how absurd it is to give a gun to a child.

Depicting the day slavery was abolished in Fortaleza in 1883, the painting “Fortaleza Liberta” by José Irineu de Sousa perpetuates a narrative of erasure. The artwork is one of the main pieces in the Ceará Historical Museum collection. Drawing on multiple perspectives of the painting, the film reflects on who is inside and outside the […]

Duwid is what the Wapixana people call Makunaima, brother of Tuminkery, creator beings of the world we live in. In 2028, the rhapsody Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade will turn one hundred years old, and this animated short enters this milestone not as a celebration of the modernist novel, but as a critical repositioning. In […]