Bateria Mercenária - TABU 2024(2024)

Des trains dans la guerre(fr)

Congé(en)

On a rare day off, a mother and her son make the most of their time together, until an unexpected call turns everything upside down.

Alcione - Duas Faces(pt)

Blues for Herold(en)

A struggling young man secretly plays a magical trumpet that transports him from his desolate world into a colorful "bliss." When his younger brother discovers his secret, their relationship is put in jeopardy.

CIELO(es)

Santa, an eight-year-old girl from the desolate Bolivian Altiplano, embarks on a rollercoaster journey to take her mother from a life of misery into paradise. The two of them made a pact: when her mother passes, the girl would follow the stars and carry her body across the desert toward heaven, a place they are certain is physically real. Crossing the wilderness, Santa encounters a group of female wrestlers that help her on her way. Also, a gruff policeman who arrests Santa but soon suspects she has magical powers. He decides that to achieve his own salvation he must join Santa on her quest beyond the horizon.

HARLEM FRAGMENTS(en)

Harlem Fragments is an Afro-futurist scrapbook storytelling of a Harlem Black family's beautiful destruction during the 2008 recession. A natural disaster so mesmerizing you can't look away from the tragedy. Based on true events- The film explores the haunting societal pressures of achieving the Black American dream, told in the POV of 10 year old TJ revisiting his family's home that's up for sale. By empowering this Black boy in this film with the agency to imagine, TJ, through his own journey, finds a way to process and come to terms with his family's divorce. It's important for every Black child out there enduring the same foreign emotions to know that it's okay to feel them, and affirm that there is a future trajectory forward out of the initial destruction.

What Now Mama(en)

A mother struggles to hold her family together as multiple crises threaten to destroy them.

Bukan Film Superhero(id)

Ta Ra Rum Pum(hi)

Ace car racer RV and his wife have the world at their feet. But he has an accident and his world is turned upside down. Can he reclaim his lost glory?

L’Anonyme(ar)

The life of a young man who is passionate about music (rap) and the problems of his family accepting what he wants to be.

Nelson Cavaquinho(pt)

A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/songwriter Nelson Antônio da Silva, whose adopted last name ‘Cavaquinho’ refers to the small guitar-like instrument that he played and used to compose his songs.

Saludos Amigos(en)

A whimsical blend of live action and animation, "Saludos Amigos" is a colorful kaleidoscope of art, adventure and music set to a toe-tapping samba beat. From high Andes peaks and Argentina's pampas to the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro, your international traveling companions are none other than those famous funny friends, Donald Duck and Goofy. They keep things lively as Donald encounters a stubborn llama and "El Gaucho" Goofy tries on the cowboy way of life....South American-style.

The Actor The Liar The Murderer(de)

In the last days of their tumultuous relationship Julian and Lara are confronted with a life changing event and now must bear the consequences.

Donut Boy(en)

A Cambodian American wants to advance into the next tier of amateur boxing but his loyalty to his cousin threatens to keep him out of the ring.

Revealed(id)

Dika, who had left his hometown for seven years, had returned home to commemorate the fourty days of his father's death. But suddenly he is asked to be a lecturer and imam for Friday prayers as his father often did in the past by his father's acquaintance who is a member of the mosque's prosperity council. Dika, who had forgotten his father and felt unloved by him, tried to get his mother to leave his hometown and the house where his mother and father had lived. However, at the last moment, Dika can again remember the expression of love from his father.

it is now tomorrow(en)

The different ways a single Vietnamese mother loved her three daughters comes to fruition when Junie, the middle child, reunites with her sisters in their childhood home on their mother’s death anniversary.

SIN PIEDAD(es)

Under the relentless sun, a killer stalks through the mountains, where the innocence of a young couple becomes prey. With no shadows to hide their fate, the hunt is a macabre game in broad daylight, where fear is not hidden in the darkness, but burns with the rawness of the unperturbed noon.

Jeito Moleque - Me Faz Feliz Ao Vivo(pt)

Family album(es)

Sandra rummages in the fragments of her memory and photographs in order to reconstruct the portrait of the life and death of her brother.

Villamarín(es)

Villamarín is a journey of longing and memories of the life of an arranger and guitarist who, after a great career in the artistic milieu, has put aside his career due to limitations. However, his passion for music, the memory of his daughter and the melancholic notes of his guitar keep him more alive than ever.