Focus Brazil : Navigating the Future
Between documentary, fiction and performance, African ancestry is inscribed on the bodies of seven young artists in the process of creating.
CAVALO
- Werner Salles Bagetti, Rafhael Barbosa
- 2020
- Brazil
- s.t. English
- 85 min
Focus Brazil : Navigating the Future
Ihjãc’s dreams after his father’s death reveal to him he’ll soon be a shaman. Denying his fate, he leaves his Krahô tribe for a village in the Brazilian hinterland.
THE DEAD AND THE OTHERS
- João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora
- 2018
- Brazil, Portugal
- s.t. English
- 114 min
International Feature Competition
In Brazil, an all-female gang selling oil on the black market sets out to represent the political interests of a population abandoned by the government.
DRY GROUND BURNING
- Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós
- 2022
- Brazil, Portugal
- s.t. French or English
- 164 min
Focus Brazil : Navigating the Future
The Maxakali nation recalls the formation of the first Rural Indigenous Guard under military dictatorship in Brazil after more than 40 years.
GRIN
- Roney Freitas, Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali
- 2016
- Brazil
- s.t. English
- 41 min
Focus Brazil : Navigating the Future
The Kuikuro family leave their Indigenous community to visit the famous Rio de Janeiro. Through their discoveries, the imagined city is reinvented.
KARIOKA
- Takumã Kuikuro
- 2014
- Brazil
- s.t. English
- 20 min
Focus Brazil : Navigating the Future
In Brazil, the Landless Workers’ Movement occupies a failing factory. This film provides an introspective look into the daily struggle for land reform.
LANDLESS
- Camila Freitas
- 2019
- Brazil
- s.t. French
- 110 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
In this film-performance, the filmmaker wanders an art exhibition, denouncing the white gaze through a simple question no one dares answer.
SEASICK
- João Vieira Torres
- 2021
- Brazil, France
- s.t. English
- 15 min
Focus Brazil : Navigating the Future
A sensitive look at childhood in Ashaninka focuses on learning both in, and even more so, out of the classroom.
SUMMERTIME
- Wewito Piyãko
- 2012
- Brazil
- s.t. English
- 22 min
Focus Brazil : Navigating the Future
Between Brazil and the US, two friends exchange video-letters inspired by other female directors while social upheavals infiltrate daily pandemic life.
SWING AND SWAY
- Fernanda Pessoa, Chica Barbosa
- 2022
- Brazil
- s.t. English
- 82 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
In Brazil’s rich neighbourhoods, a colonial legacy is seen in the sacred right to private property and working conditions of the guards of order and normality.
URBAN SOLUTIONS
- Minze Tummescheit, Luciana Mazeto, Vinícius Lopes, Arne Hector
- 2022
- Germany, Brazil
- s.t. English
- 30 min
Focus Brazil : Navigating the Future
In the “national jeans capital,” a small Brazilian town transformed by neoliberalism, residents share their intense work routine and dreams.
WAITING FOR THE CARNIVAL
- Marcelo Gomes
- 2019
- Brazil
- s.t. English
- 86 min
Focus Brazil : Navigating the Future
For over five centuries, colonization has appropriated Indigenous bodies, cultures, languages, and souls. Ziel Karapotó creates a ritualized reimagining of history.
THE WORD BECAME FLESH
- Ziel Karapotó
- 2019
- Brazil
- s.t. English
- 6 min