NEW PROJECTS
DEFIANT
Feature | Dir Coraci Ruiz e Julio Matos
Suzy is the mother of many children. A trans and black woman from the periphery, her mission is to fight transphobia in Campinas, the last Brazilian city to abolish slavery. In 2024 she decided to take a bigger step: to run for councillor. Through an intimate portrait of her life and campaign, we learn about the difficulties, joys and sorrows of doing politics without being a traditional politician, in a country that is averse to dissident bodies.
Granted a low-budget feature film grant from the Paulo Gustavo Law of the State of São Paulo 2023 and a documentary support grant from the AlterCiné Foundation (Canada); it took part in the Argentinian DOC LAB #LINK FIDBA 2023, the Chilean Encuentros BiobioCine 2025 -Pasantía Documental and was selected for the Cannes Docs in Progress programme at the Marché du Film. Premiere scheduled for 2026.
MIRANTE
Longa | Dir Coraci Ruiz e Julio Matos
Between 2013 and 2018, more than eighteen thousand Cuban doctors worked in Brazil as part of the ‘More Doctors’ Programme, enabling populations in poor and remote areas of the country to access primary care through the Public Health System (SUS). After Jair Bolsonaro's victory, however, the agreement with Cuba was broken and thousands of doctors left even before he took office. Those who decided to stay were considered deserters by the Cuban government and cannot return to the island, under penalty of imprisonment.
Today, more than six years later, distance and time have shaped the memories of those who left and those who stayed. Using the documentary device of exchanging video letters, the film ‘Mirante’ will tell the story of the presence of Cuban doctors in Brazil based on the stories of coexistence and mutual learning that took place during this period, the pain of saying goodbye and the contradictions of these relationships.
THE PICTURES
Feature | Dir Andrea Pasquini
A woman seeks to find her father to retrieve her only teenage photos, given to him when she was 15. A documentary feature film about the search for the father, but also the reconstruction of his memory.
THREE SORROWFUL AUNTS
For over ten years, I have been recording and trying to make this film, understanding that nothing and no one is perfect, least of all families.
My aunt Rosamaría was imprisoned during the dictatorship, my aunt Gloria left her daughters in Brazil, and my aunt Ximena took her own life at sea a few months after we moved in with her. In an attempt to reveal their stories, I am embarking on this journey in search of answers, memories and anecdotes, to break the cycle and not repeat the same mistakes with my children.
A final encounter, or perhaps a new beginning to reformulate the questions about what our idea of family is.
