Masterpiece Monday

Rasga Mortalha A man hears the sounds of an owl that, according to the local legend, signals the arrival of death. He will try to capture the bird to bring joy back to the city.

Movimiento Continuo The history of an experimental housing project in Lima is the starting point of an exploration on the nature of transformation and hybridisation. Transfers, cuts and superpositions operate as transcriptions that explore various relations and configurations of the material to displace a fixed point of view.

El negocin... Simon Feldman's first movie, made while being a teacher at "Seminario de cine de Buenos Aires". Little to nothing is known about it, as it can't be found online. Not only that, but Feldman then remade this film but with a higher budget. The new version was made in 35mm while the original one was made in 16mm. Since the newest version is best remembered (and available online) this first attempt is eclipsed and forgotten.

Toys This short film, filmed at the Rural Exhibition, is a testimony that, based on 70 interviews with girls and boys of 9 and 10 years old, investigates the behavior guidelines imposed by conventional education and the results obtained. Boys are educated in a specific way, with very different life goals, and toys reflect this discrimination: kitchens, dolls, hairdryers, cosmetic equipment, the whole domestic world for girls. Creative games, those that awaken the imagination (trains, cars, building games, men in space), are intended for boys.

Quilombo Mata Cavalo Heirs of quilombolas need to conquer the regularization of lands that were owned by their ancestors.

O Cu dos ndios Desna e T... Documentary on the study of astronomy by two indigenous Amazonian ethnic groups.

Ghosts A journey back to the filmmaker’s childhood, as she unearths her roots in hidden family archives. Starting with the moment on a train when her mother gently broke her the news that her biological father wasn’t who she thought he was, she travels to the present day, where she finds only the ghosts of the fathers she would have liked to have.

Icamiabas A group of Amazon must defend the riches of the Veropa Fair from attack by a Bio Pirate.

The Lot A grocery store's carts are going missing and David is not the one to find them.

Girl Named Sue Based on the true story of DEA agent Sue Webber-Brown and her role in creating the Drug Endangered Child (DEC) protocol.