Zulusa
Feature · Fiction · 100 min
Zulusa never knew her daughter, who was stolen from her right after birth. Ten years later, she sets out on a journey along the rivers of the Amazon to find her and, when she finally does, decides to kidnap her. But what she thought was the end of one search becomes the beginning of another: Zulusa discovers that the bond between mother and daughter is not born ready — it has to be built.
How to Tell a Tale
Feature · Documentary · 90 min
In 1989, Gabriel García Márquez gathers screenwriters in Cuba to investigate how a story is born. As the group invents characters and destinies, Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana to tell Fidel that Soviet financial support is ending. Decades later, the participants revisit that encounter. Their memories, not always in agreement, converse with records of the workshop and reveal friendships, conflicts and utopias.
P Language
Feature · Fiction · 100 min
Shooting their first short film with a wind-up Bolex camera, a single can of 16mm negative and just one night on location, young students watch the sexually charged atmosphere of the fiction spill into the crew’s relationships. By dawn, no one is quite sure what happened — or what was actually filmed.
Russian for Avenue
Feature · Fiction · 90 min
During the 1982 World Cup, eight-year-old Douglas wants a pair of Kichute boots to play football, but his debt-ridden family can’t afford them. Douglas lives through grief, the financial crisis at the end of the dictatorship and the discoveries of childhood alongside a communist neighbor whose influence will change his outlook and echo throughout his life.
Birth Families
Feature · Documentary · 90 min
When a child is adopted, a new story begins. But the previous story is not always brought to a proper close. In São Paulo, a few social workers work with birth families who give children up for adoption, preparing them for this farewell, listening to their stories and building meaning for the future.
