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Crayon

April 2024 •Portuguese

Mel, a young independent trans artist who uses her art as a refuge and escape valve in the midst of identity crises and dysphoria. She faces herself on her journey to self-knowledge when one of her self-portraits comes to life.

Maneki

March 2023 •English

After being rejected by her favorite customer, a cashier must reconcile her feelings when the customer continues to visit the ramen shop.

Obsession

June 2023 •Portuguese

Laura is a young woman who works as a self-employed social media strategist. She has never been in a serious relationship and values her privacy very much. After meeting Sabrina she believes they’ll have just another casual date at her apartment, but Sabrina is the type of person who gets attached easily. She becomes obsessed with Laura, insisting on a relationship.

Queer Enough

October 2024 •English

A bisexual woman struggles to accept her own identity when she looks to a local LGBTQIA+ book club for a sense of belonging.

Bugman

May 2024 •English

A misunderstood and isolated transgender teenager takes revenge upon his unaccepting parents. A powerful supernatural entity known as the Bug God contacts him to help him do the deed. A mysterious organization produces a largely fictitious made-for-TV docudrama on the subject.

Trapped In The Spiders Web

April 2024 •English

Trapped In The Spiders Web, is a student short film about Charlie, a young teen who fell victim to a 27-year-old groomer Amber online. This film is meant to shine a light on the issue of online safety for teens, highlighting the very real issue that female groomers fly under the radar because they are not men. This story is meant to be real and dive into the harsh reality of being trapped in a situation like this one. Telling this underrepresented story, in an ethical and personal way.

for us, an essay

April 2024 •Portuguese

How heavy is an emotional relationship in TRANSit? Giving love? Losing love? Having, in my the chest, not only a heart but also longing? That's why I record you this: for us to continue.

In This Moment

April 2024 •English

“In This Moment” is the story of a transwoman named Love, who is polyamorous and trying to navigate the world around her identities by coming to terms with how she deserves and needs to be loved in a world where her existence is an act of protest. “In This Moment" teaches us that love is like the ocean. It is different in every pattern and location it exists.

A Colheita

November 2023 •Portuguese

An elderly man in the countryside sees a painting of his wife that makes him have fragments of memory of an old flame, and needs help of his wife to remember.

Praying for Us

May 2024 •Portuguese

Núbia finds herself confortable in the systemic conventions of her religion, much to the disappointment of Cecília, who challenges her to rethink her priorities.

I Don't Like Being Alone

May 2024 •Portuguese

At the height of the 2020 quarantine, Gustavo finds himself alone in São Paulo, far from his family and friends, with no one to share or exchange affection with. Until he received a strange notification: an old school friend started following him. Lost in his own loneliness, Gustavo invites him to eat pizza in his apartment. But upon meeting Augusto again, old feelings are reconsidered and Gustavo must discover how to deal with his past mistakes.

Toska

May 2023 •Italian

Flavio, immersed in the sadness of nostalgia and regret, faces his daily loneliness, seeking solace in the solitary ritual of smoking a cigarette. Each puff becomes a journey back in time, an immersion in a parallel dimension that brings to light the moments shared with Alberto. The warmth of those hugs, the echo of shared laughter and the tears that bathed their cheeks become present, as if they had just happened. Every blurry image that surfaces, every fleeting glance that materializes and every whispered word that resonates reveal the fragile nature of human balance and the profound gravity of the choices that shaped their relationship. But in that very smoke lies a strange consolation, a sense of acceptance that begins to germinate in his heart. He accepts the end of the relationship, with all its painful consequences, and launches himself into a new future, leaving behind what has been and opening his arms to the unknown that awaits him.

Ressonância Viciosa

August 2024 •Portuguese

Four inconsequential young people and a dream at stake... in an attempt to better understand the steps that followed a tragedy, stories are told and memories are revisited: dive headfirst into the chaotic universe of the band Vicious Resonance.

Growing Pains

April 2024 •English

Two childhood girl friends, Zoe and Nat, face the tumultuous changes of transitioning from middle to high school as their friendship drifts apart. Zoe, a cancer survivor, joins the crew team which exacerbates her body image & mental health struggles. Nat battles with her sexuality and the expectations of her parents.

Memorias de bolsillo

Invalid date •Spanish

Franco, a young writer, embarks on a train journey to Casa Bamba, the town of his childhood. During his journey he will be reunited with memories of an old friendship and will seek to come to terms with the feelings he once had.

Aforismo

June 2024 •Portuguese

Break Free

May 2016 •Danish

The film is about a boy named Tobias Hansen, who carefully hides his true self. However, his secret will soon be revealed by the curious and persistent Wilma. Should Tobias show his true nature or is it better to keep everything a secret?

For You

July 2024 •Portuguese

A coroner reunites with a great love from the past, realizing that the memories are more vivid than ever.

Snapshots

July 2018 •English

Rose spends her days fishing near the beautiful lake house she’s called home for 50 years. She’s not getting any younger and her daughter Patti worries about Rose being all alone, but the stubborn matriarch will not sell. There are memories here that she doesn’t want to leave. These come flooding back one weekend during a visit from Patti and granddaughter Allison, when a long-forgotten roll of film reminds Rose of the summer she met and fell in love with the bold and beautiful Louise.

Falsettos

May 1993 •English

The Brodway musical ´Falsettos´ performance from 1993. This production tells the story of an unconventional jewish family were Marvin, the family guy, leaves his wife and son for his new lover Whizzer.