Monique Rau

Bruna makes out with Andre before his trip to the beach. After that, she spends the rest of the day with her best friend Jota.

Toni is about to move. He decides to spend his last day in town drinking with his friends.

Winter holidays. Monique goes to the beach with her parents. With no friends around, she tries to find something to do. Then she meets a young man on the volleyball court.

“Almost Absent” ultimately refers to the gestures of a generation of films that have originated and developed amid the contexts and aesthetic restrictions of the pandemic. While elaborating these elements, the film also explores how our screen-mediated reality affects our way of looking at the world, and in what way this gaze allows us to reflect upon cinema.