Love By Hands

A collage-style video essay that explores the idea of love through touch. Guided by fragments of films, paintings, photographs, and other visual images, a sensorial and poetic narrative is constructed around the protagonists of Alan Stephens Foster's painting "The Fall." Like a moving moodboard, the work connects different artistic and cultural expressions to portray gestures of affection, desire, care, and presence between diverse bodies. All of this through the hands.

Ensaio Sobre Você

El color del amor

This short documentary explores the intimate and unconventional life of my grandmother and her relationship with magic and with the love of her life. With nearly 40 years between them and a union that never reached the altar, the story unfolds in a time when social norms and life expectations collided with their own desires and decisions. The documentary follows my grandmother’s life from her early youth to her maturity, through the responsibilities of motherhood, her craft, and love in its most unexpected forms. Through interviews, family memories, personal belongings, and the narration of key moments in their life together, this portrait seeks to explore the nuances of love and the complexities of building a family outside traditional structures.

AMPARO

A short film about rupture — about someone who defies the system and reclaims her life. The narrative portrays the everyday oppression of late capitalism, exploring the emotional and physical exhaustion of Alana, who finds refuge and the courage to change in Carol, her girlfriend.

Pinga Fogo

Light

A university professor on the verge of divorce and a new life is confronted with encounters that make him doubt his desires — and reality.

Closed Off

After witnessing the death of a child, Camilo, a young traffic officer, is plunged into deep introspection, haunted by recurring dreams of his own death. Amid this internal struggle, he reconnects with Leslye, who gradually helps him rediscover the value of life.

Vô

An animated short film that shows the relationship between a girl, her grandfather, and a little bird. A series of everyday events, ranging from daily meals to car rides, demonstrate the closeness and friendship between the two. A film about love, longing, and cherished memories.

Bon Vivant

In a captivating monologue, a character who calls himself a "Bon Vivant" reveals three principles he learned to genuinely love life. With lightness and depth, the short film invites the viewer to rediscover the pleasure of simply living.

Vuelo

Vampiro

Afetos (im)possíveis

Crónicas de una traición

Filmes de Amor, Canções de Guerra

Acho que tô gostando de você

Figure

A short stop-motion film about a wooden mannequin—a figure you can put in different positions to use as a model for drawing or painting. An arm wobbles, toes stretch out, the head slowly turns upward: something (or someone?) is gradually coming to life.

2G

Agadez in Niger has long been the starting point for people smugglers moving migrants through the desert to Libya. Under pressure from Europe, the Niger government has been trying to combat people smuggling, but the local economy offers few alternatives. Those who give up smuggling usually end up in gold mining. But it’s hard and dangerous work, and only a few make their fortunes.

Metamorphosis

In Metamorphosis, filmmaker and media artist Pim Zwier chooses a highly original form to depict the life and work of the German artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), whose study of insects laid the foundations of entomology. Her most important work revolved around the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies: she recorded the process in beautiful prints and engravings and was the first to draw the insects in combination with the plant on which they live.

Alreadymade

In 2004, a urinal was voted the most influential work ever in modern art. Famed artist and provocateur Marcel Duchamp claimed to have created “Fountain”—or rather, he bought the mass-produced product and signed it—but according to some, it is the lesser-known, flamboyant Dadaist artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven who should take credit for transforming this much-discussed porcelain “piss pot” into art.

The Story of Ne Kuko

When the Pan-African activist Mwazulu Diyabanza walks into the Afrika Museum in the Dutch village of Berg en Dal and leaves with an exhibition object under his arm, the police arrest him for theft. But according to Diyabanza, he is merely retrieving what was stolen from Congo during colonial rule and returning it to where it came from.