ART(2018)

Vale dos Suicidas(pt)

Six: Inside(en)

Delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animation filmmakers.

Frontera(en)

The theater group within the prison of Cuatro Caminos, which includes a total of six prisoners-eight volunteers, it was decided to stage the play "12 Angry Men". However, his dream will be lowered when a contagious infection forced to remain isolated inside. Fear and lack of information to jump trigger alarms and the group is consumed by stress. With the participation of real prisoners, this film is an innovative proposal to help them pass and live, while participating in a larger project.

Film(en)

Before the three feature films, Mario Schifano directs the camera towards the people around him to create real film diaries. His friends, his time partner and the artists he frequented are portrayed in their everyday life or object of the mechanical gaze of the camera, a filter through which to look at the outside world.

way(en)

San Francisco filmmaker Konrad Steiner took 12 years to complete a montage cycle set to the late Leslie Scalapino’s most celebrated poem, way—a sprawling book-length odyssey of shardlike urban impressions, fraught with obliquely felt social and sexual tensions. Six stylistically distinctive films for each section of way, using sources ranging from Kodachrome footage of sun-kissed S.F. street scenes to internet clips of the Iraq war to a fragmented Fred Astaire dance number.

Nightmare PTA Moms(en)

It follows a mother as she joins the PTA, hoping to get more involved at her daughter's new middle school, but she finds it run by a power-hungry mom with a penchant for backstabbing - literally.

Keemat(hi)

Ajay and Dev are two small-time crooks. One day they accidentally killed a man named Mohan Tripathi. With a good and pleasant mind they find out the address of the decreased and pays a visit to his village. Only to see the young man's family eagerly waiting for his return from abroad, seeing the family's plight they decides to lie about the young man and told the family that he is alive but was delayed because of some urgent work. Days and months passed and Mohan did not showed up towards his family and both young men continues to lie to them. The question remain what will be the outcome of Ajay and Dev when the family learns that there son is no longer alive and that both are his killers?

Opening Night(en)

A teenage boy navigates the final minutes before his first theater stage performance, which includes experiencing his first kiss. Despite his rising anxiety, he shares a romantic moment with a classmate.

Sissy Sheriff(en)

After losing 12 sheriffs in twelve days, the town of Lizzard Gizzard Gulch makes Woody sheriff number 13, with the task of arresting notorious bank robber Dirty McNasty.

Listen(en)

"A soundscape is any collection of sounds, almost like a painting is a collection of visual attractions," says composer R. Murray Schafer. "When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous." David New's portrait of the renowned composer becomes a lesson unto itself, gracing viewers (and listeners) with a singular moment of interactive subjectivity. This film was produced for the 2009 Governor General's Performing Arts Award.

Safe House(no)

The civil war rages in the Central African Republic, Linn (35) leads a team of aid workers who are working tirelessly to save lives in a field hospital outside a massive refugee camp. When a Muslim man, persecuted and in mortal danger, seeks refuge, Linn faces a critical decision. A growing mob and Christian militia demand his handover. As the head of security, Linn must act quickly, brutally balancing the safety of her team with the value of a single life. Based on the true events that unfolded during 15 tense hours at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Bangui on Christmas Eve, 2013.

Venusia(en)

Lisa, the brothel madam of the luxurious “Le Vénusia” in Geneva, and Lena, an artless prostitute as unpredictable as she is lazy, are filmed in the intimacy of a smoking room—where their relationship will combine tenderness and cruelty.

Chicago at the Crossroad(en)

While gun violence was on the decline in most major US cities, why did it continue to increase in Chicago's segregated communities? What is known about the systems that created the problem, the laws that isolated it, and the policies that abandoned it? Using dramatic footage, including interviews with residents on the front lines over the last 15 years, this documentary opens a rare historical window into the systematic creation of poverty stricken communities plagued by gun violence. 

Shaolin Invincibles(zh)

Two sword-wielding sisters seek revenge against the villains who murdered their family. But these are no ordinary villains — they’re wizards with giant, elasticized tongues who use black magic to control... kung fu gorillas!

Cap'n O.G. Readmore's Jack and the Beanstalk(en)

Cap'n O.G. Readmore and his friends – Kitty Literature, Ol' Tome Cat, Wordsy, Lickety Page and Dog-Eared – are holding their Friday Night Book Club meeting in an alley next to the public library. When members of the Book Club start to poke fun at some of the characters from their favorite fairy tales, the bookshelves part and Cap'n O.G. is abducted by those same characters. Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk challenges Cap'n O.G. to take his place in the story.

Vale dos Suicidas(pt)

O Tradutor(pt)

Of the Observatory I Saw(pt)

Nigim is an ufologist from the city of Passa Tempo in MG who recorded numerous appearances of et’s from the Planet of Jov. But now, it seems like who is being watched is him.

TRABALHEI ATÉ ONTEM(pt)

DEAR ROBERT_(pt)

Fragmentos(pt)

OUSIA(pt)

A Redação(pt)

Unido Vencerás 2 - Uma História Diferente(pt)

24 years later, America Football Club competes for a title again.

O Plano do Cachorro(pt)

Flerte(pt)

Carta para Inês(pt)

Pato, Siriguela e o Pedaço de Pão(pt)

Champion(fr)

At 24 years old, Zack has all the appearances of a young man who feels good in his own skin. His secret is well kept. He's talented carpenter, he builds tree houses with his father. But his passion is boxing, which he teaches as a volunteer. Zack is thinking of moving in with Marjorie when his father has a work accident and falls into a coma. He must face alone the task of running the small family business. The weaknesses he thought he had overcome will be brought back. And as a newcomer, Ines, enters his life, his secret is in danger of being revealed at any time: Zack is illiterate.

The Stronger(pt)

After breaking up, Daniel and Julia decided that the best thing for their son - Thomaz - was to live with his father. The family was not in trouble with this deal, until the day Thomaz began to be harassed at school, bullied by living alone with his father and by being different from his friends of divorced parents living with his mother. By asking his father why he was not like his friends, the boy triggers not only a crisis of masculinity in Daniel but also in the relationship of the former couple.

Four Quartets(en)

Four interwoven meditations on the nature of time, memory, experience and the quest for spiritual enlightenment.

Mathilde(en)

A young girl attempts to kill a UN peacekeeper after the war in Croatia, leading to an investigation into the circumstances of their first meeting.

Darkest Hour Annihilation(en)

With the world steaming forward on its self-destructive path, Tracy Wellington decided to ignore the signs of the times. After the disappearance of half the world, she now fights every minute to stay alive.

War Trap(fr)

During the Second World War, following an ambush carried out in a fort by German troops, Eugène, an allied soldier, finds himself trapped underground. Now fighting for his survival, his destiny will play out alongside that of another survivor and both must find a way extricate themselves from certain death, unaware of the terrible battle that awaits them on the outside.