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“Imagination, instead of knowledge; play, instead of work; totality, instead of separation.” (Agostinho da Silva). Against a backdrop of  rainforest sounds, along the Pastaza river on the border between Ecuador and Peru, a group of children from the Achua community spend their days gathering, fishing and cooking, but above all playing. This is a film that comes across as a game that apparently has no purpose, but that has a deeply evocative result.

L’Europe Autour de l’Europe - Menção Especial

Festival de Belim - Nomeado secção Generation

Hatzin, a young teenager from Mexico City, travels to collect the remains of his father. But a casual encounter with a man who shares a physical resemblance with his father fills him with doubts and hope about his parent’s true whereabouts.

Festival de Veneza - Leoncino d'Oro ; Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival - Grande Prémio do Júri; Festival Internacional de cinema de Miami - Menção Especial

Totò and his son Ninetto are drifting along a road in Italy when they meet a speaking crow. Considered Pasolini's "most vulnerable, most delicate and most secret" as well as being one of his most funny films.

Festival de Cannes - Nomeado à Palma d’Ouro (1966); Festival de Berlim (1988), Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists - Prémio Melhor Actor, Nomeado a Melhor Realizador, Melhor Argumento e Melhor Música (1967)

This film invites us to contemplate cows, to get close to them, to see their beauty and the challenges of their lives. Not in a romantic way, but in a real way. It is a film about the reality of a cow, from grazing in green fields to giving birth, making milk and everything in between.

Festival de Cannes - Nomeado ao Golden Eye; Festival Internacional de cinema de Atenas -Melhor Documentário; BAFTA - Nomeado a Melhor Documentário

In times of the infamous Argentinian Corralito, the neighbors in a little town make a plan to recover the money they lost after learning that their bank manager and a corrupt lawyer have stolen it.

Academia de Artes e Ciências Cinematográficas da Argentina - Melhor Actriz Secundária; Cinema Brasil- Melhor Filme Ibero-Americano; Prémios Goya - Melhor Filme Ibero-Americano

Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is ilegal and morally condemned.

Prémios: Festival de Cannes - Nomeado à Palme d’Or; Associação de Críticos de Cinema de Los Angeles  - Melhor Filme em Língua não Inglesa

Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same age building a treehouse. What follows is a tender tale of childhood grief, memory and connection.

Prémios BAFTA - Nomeado a Melhor Filme em Língua Não Inglesa; Festival Internacional de Berlim - Nomeado ao Golden Berlin Bear; Festival Internacional Mar del Plata - Melhor Fotografia

After a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer, Ema, a reggaeton dancer, sets out on an odyssey of personal liberation, in this incendiary drama about art, desire, and the modern family.

Prémios: Festival de Veneza - UNIMED; Festival de Cinema de Miami - Melhor Banda Sonora

Pasolini wears the uniform of a guerrilla filmmaker, going out into the street, microphone in hand, to talk about sex. An unusual documentary subject by a creator eternally bent on challenging the limits and conventions of the cinematographic language.

Festival Internacional de Berlim (1982); Festival Internacional de Cinema de Locarno  (1964, 1987, 2020)

Small is beautiful and luminous. A film easily overlooked due to its subtlety, it recounts a day in the life of an actress (Sangok) who decides to go back to Japan. As the details of Sangok's day accrue (a spill on her blouse, an encounter at her childhood home), it becomes clear that there is much she is not revealing…

Festival Internacional de Gijón - Albar Prémio especial do Júri; Cine21- Prémio Melhor Filme do Ano