Espirito do Tempo

High Fidelity - "It Ain't Easy"(pt)

Inspired by Stephen Frears' "High Fidelity", filmmaker Lívia Sandim's short film celebrates the connection between art, music and identity. The story follows a protagonist who, while dancing to a David Bowie vinyl, explores his emotions and his relationship with representation. In the final act, Bowie's famous interview resonates as a manifesto of freedom and authenticity, reflecting the director's vision of the importance of expressing oneself freely.

New York at the Movies(en)

Meryl Streep conducts us to a trip to New York City as presented in many films during the 20th Century, and how its cultural importance and impact are important to viewers. With a comprehensive gathering of clips from films between 1910's and 1990's, the documentary presents the mandatory classic films that presented the city and its multiple cultural variations, situations and the great stories filmed there. Actors and directors also discuss how they view the city in reality and also through the pictures.

Cinema é arte?(pt)

Quando a noite ainda não existia(pt)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a trans body dreams of the birth of night.

George A. Romero's Resident Evil(en)

A documentary that brings to light the vision that director George A. Romero had for an adaptation of Resident Evil, using newly filmed interviews with those who were there, and unravels the secrets behind why it was never produced.

Paranoid Park(en)

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss(en)

Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss is a slice of life short about two friends who sit in their car by the ocean on their lunch break as they make up stories about passersby.

Inland Empire(en)

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

Happy Bad Day(ar)

Former illegal immigrant returns to his homeland, Numidia, to create a film representing the cinema of the south, which differs from the cinema of the north.

TEN`I-III(ru)

Defunción Privada(es)

Francina, the employee of an old cinema, invites Mateo to a late-night screening just for them. What they don't know is that, in the shadows, someone is waiting to add them to his list of victims.

La Chinoise(fr)

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

The Scary Movie(en)

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequences.

Old Man/Sick Man/Shout(es)

Ananias, a San Francisco Bay Area artist and immigrant, performs the folkloric Danza de los Viejitos (the Dance of the Old Men). Originally from Michoacán, Mexico, where the dance originates, Ananias interprets its movements through the lens of his spirituality, his long-term HIV-related disabilities, and his search for a place in the world.

Losing the Light(en)

Losing the Light reflects the artist's bitter battle to stay in this world as a long-term survivor of AIDS who has lost his vision to CMV retinitis. An experimental self-portrait, the video evokes the dissolution and fragmentation of the artists body, representing the impact of blindness, long-term HIV infection, and the cumulative effects of decades of antiretroviral medication.

Fragments of a Revolution (Sahneye Tarikh)(en)

An experimental film about narrations of two journal photos from Iran's revolution in 1979.

FIN(fr)

In a remote and seemingly peaceful province of Ilaya, there lived two teenagers who explore their lives as the world around them grows darker.

Insistir(es)

A documentary about the sea and memory. Its movement is its form. Its strength.

Sandra Hüllers Geheimnis(de)

From her theater work to the worldwide fame brought by cinema, Sandra Hüller talks about her art and her career, from "Toni Erdmann" to "The Zone of Interest", via "Anatomy of a Fall". A vibrant encounter with an actress in love with the absolute.

The Silent Laugh(ar)

Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp. In this documentary, we will take a look at the life of actor and director Charlie Chaplin, and talk about his films and hidden symbolisms.