Tito e os passaros
Tito is a shy 10-year-old boy who lives with his mother. Suddenly, an unusual epidemic starts to spread, making people sick whenever they get scared. Tito quickly discovers that the cure is somehow related to his missing father’s research on bird song. He embarks on a journey to save the world from the epidemic with […]
Grit
In 2006, the drilling company Lapindo unleashed an unstoppable toxic mudflow into East Java, burying dozens of villages and displacing 60,000 Indonesians. The documentary focuses on the teenage years of Dian, a 16-year-old survivor who suffers the consequences of the tragedy for a decade and becomes a relentless advocate for environmental and human rights.
Understory
Understory is an extraordinary personal essay on a plant and all its cultural and economic ramifications: cacao. Traveling through Sao Tome and Principe, England and Brazil, the director walks between past and present, dismantling the schemes of European colonial oppression and investigating the possibilities of a fair exploitation of the plant. And in the various […]