SELECTED FILMS

Mano Mendi lives on the Island of Santiago, Cape Verde. He’s the last cimboa player, a sort of one-string violin used to accompany the traditional batuque dances, banned by the church and the former colonial power for being considered too sexual in nature. A documentary about the revival of an (indeed very) sexy culture.

A stop-frame animation about a lady who hides away from the world and creates a camera obscura in her home. A film on the constructions people create, the way they influence our lives and how we interact with the world. Best Australian Animation Award at the 2012 WOW Film Festival.

"Cascatinha" tells the story of the club based on the namesake neighborhood of Petrópolis (Rio de Janeiro) in the early twentieth century through the eyes of Lézio, who joined the club in the 50s and never left.

Northeastern Brazil, 1942. Two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought. Although their personalities and lives are worlds apart, the two men develop a deep friendship, as Johan, in an effort to provide Ranulpho with job skills, teaches Ranulpho to run the film projector, and drive a truck. In this deliberately-paced road film, Marcelo Gomes reminds us that war is as close as Johan’s radio, broadcasting its relentless warnings that all lives are changed when the world is in conflict.

The documentary follows the story of an artwork by the artist Aecio Sarti, who paints on used truck covers. This time, as art, one of the canvases returns to the reality of the roads and witnesses a Brazilian reality that only a few people know.

Sonia Ferreira and Wilker Flores live and breathe hardcore rock and roll. They run the Okutiuka orphanage in the war-ravaged city of Huambo, Angola and dream of mounting the first-ever national rock concert. Raucous and righteous, this film follows their story, giving audiences a look at a rock show off the grid that is fulfilling, haunting, and real.