MICROCYCLE

Des vertes et des pas mûres

Quatro Linhas

In his Miami studio, built as a solar observatory, a famous painter lives alone, without a wife or children. His only obsession is to paint at dawn. But for some unknown reason, as he prepares to finish his last canvas, that morning the sun does not rise.

On a clear and frigid Christmas Eve in 1998, in a small, forgotten city, a solitary taxi driver on the graveyard shift breathlessly awaits the sight of the International Space Station. As the hours count down, a parade of offbeat misfits derail his plans, propelling the story to its exhilarating climax. In this poetic, hilarious and often absurd tale, complete strangers discover unexpected unity and a newfound understanding of their place among the stars.

A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age story.

An Editor recounts the diaries of a failed film production as they attempt to construct a new narrative from the remaining footage.

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Eden

Iduarte is sitting on a lake bench, his intrusive thoughts stop when he sees a man dressed in yellow soaking the people around him.

A troubled man searches for flowers but ends up being tormented by a mannequin.

Copos D'Água

A woman discovers she's been married to a serial killer for fifteen years, albeit unwittingly. Her mind fractures as she examines her complicity -- should she have known? Could she have prevented him from killing? Or was part of her subconsciously attracted to his evil side?

A human-like Creature, emerging from the ancient depths of the Norwegian forest, ventures towards suburbia. The local inhabitants react in different ways to its unannounced presence.

A wandering young woman explores the crevices of her apartment, of her corporeal creases, as well as the shadows made up of those things. Through her journey, she comes into contact with fellow vagrancies: a nondescript man of around similar age; a young girl with similar, even familiar, eyes; streets that can only exist during those brief moments of glazing stares. The rain comes and goes, but the A/C never turns off.

Haunted by flooding memories of their parents' verbal abuse, an insecure person decides to stop reflecting and start living the life they never knew they could have.

A subway enforcement officer working in the oppressively gray Budapest metro gets a chance at love — but first he needs to find out why passengers are jumping — or being pushed — to their deaths onto the tracks.

Eve awakes in an unstaffed medical facility with no recollection of how, why or when she was admitted. She joins a group of outcast patients, who are attempting to recall what takes place during treatment. As Eve learns more about the patients, she begins to remember the terrible events that led to her sickness. An alien world at the edge of her dreams begins to bleed through, compelling her to write the transmissions down. Soon, these visions will consume her. Is she a prisoner, a patient... or dead?

A short film about a telephone engineer and his son as they both attempt to understand the past and the future.

What remains for me is to promote my own ruin. Aware of inevitable loneliness, the incarnation of cruelty.

The story of an invisible man who travels in search of an idea, told by a questionable narrator.