Curriculum Vitae

Bajo Control

La Cueva

SHORTCUT

A field laborer fights to survive in a hostile environment. The appearance of a strange presence and a revolver will change his destiny.

Special Interview

After his battle with drug addiction, Marco looks for a job. But during his interview, he is asked rather personal and weird questions that rattle and anger him.

Nara Leão: MPB Especial

11 Días en Ayacucho

Oh no! I had to interview vampires for my senior thesis!

João Miguel (Diego Costa), a Journalism student, interviews Zaíra (Winna Kudrik) and Didi (Serafim do Mundo), two young party-going vampires who live in a bar, for his senior thesis. They open up to him not only about their vampiric lives, but also about their experiences as simple, rebellious youths.

The Forbidden Education

An analysis of the logics of modern schooling and the way of understanding education, while showing different, non-conventional educational experiences that raise the need for a new educational paradigm.

January The 28th

In Culiacán, Sinaloa, 11-year-olds Fabi, Josué, and Francisco bond over shared struggles in their elementary school and use a film workshop to express the violence that surrounds them. Six years later, they reunite to reflect on their experiences and the unsettling normalization of violence in their lives, exploring its impact on their futures.

Pastelaciones

Chinski and Pastela reflect on love, sex, sadness, authenticity and the construction of our image and identity. An interaction that generates debate between two opposing individuals.

Estrés

La escuela olvidada

Faust

Marche à l'ombre

Roxane, Carlos, Élyane and Medhi are sharing a car ride from Spain to France. During a stop on the highway, Roxane befriends Malo, a migrant walking toward the border. He ends up being invited, almost against his will, to continue the journey with them. A few kilometers from the border, tension begins to rise inside the car.

Olho por olho

That Thing You Do!

A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager. But behind the scenes, the group’s sudden fame tests their strength, their maturity and responsibility, and their ability to resist the temptations that money and notoriety always make possible.

Open Water 2: Adrift

A weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school friends when they get stuck in the water many miles from shore and a happy reunion turns into a fight for survival.

Alien Implant

A brilliant female recluse sends a distress signal into outer space from a remote location. When the Aliens arrive, they realize it's not a distress signal, it's an ingenious trap designed to exact revenge on the extraterrestrials who abducted her as a child.

The Black Battalion

A fictionalized account of Czech soldiers who fought for the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam.

Company

Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends.