The Night That Holds You

"Protected by the mountains that surround the neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the city of Sabará, Brazil, a group of young people are having fun on their motorcycles on a dead-end viaduct known by the residents of the region as ramal ferroviário".

In a rainy afternoon drive, a man embarks on a journey through his memories. As he questions his faith, the line between past and present begins to blur, leading him into a maelstrom of fragmented images.

We all have dreams and most of people give up before achieving them. Le rêve is about mistakes don't matter. The important thing is to get up afterwards, to fight to get back on track and make our dreams come true.

An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

A filming exercise becomes a memory of young Nico's crush and fall for his classmate, Iris.

A grieving young inventor finds solace in repairing an antique typewriter.

A young woman rediscovers a letter from an old friend, forcing her to reconcile with the past.

For Sarah, her past has become a blur but she can’t shake the feeling that something horrible is locked away in her memories. Drawn back to her childhood home by a strange force, Sarah pieces together her past to unveil the truth behind the fate of her younger sister.

"When the wax that inhabits the soul is deeply and abundantly, tenderly and sufficiently kneaded, every thing that is transmitted through the channel of sensations will be engraved in the heart of the soul” - Socrates

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.

A meditation on memory around Iceland's famous Ring Road.

When Benny's younger brother, Loren, suddenly reappears after being missing for months, the two are forced to reckon with the drastically different ways they have chosen to live their lives.

Avenoir

A humanoid robot deliverywoman muses on the mystery of human nature as she drops off parcels around the galaxy.

A field laborer fights to survive in a hostile environment. The appearance of a strange presence and a revolver will change his destiny.

A boy, metaphor of today's youth, reflects, waits and contracts in front of the inexorable progress of capitalism. The youth of today is called early to be mature, to have the illusion that the world is small, dependent on technology and finally to an extreme competition. Faced with such a view, a large part of today's youth, is often tending to apathy, waiting without purpose, to a life without goals. It 's a phenomenon that the world doesn't know? But from the ashes comes a new life. So the young man is called to be aware of his existence to a new form of youth, where he doesn't fun anymore running among wheat fields, but he is oriented to sit on the subway playing with the smartphone.

The camera gets lost in the deserted streets and lonely reflections of the city lights. Without words, it captures the loneliness of souls who, although surrounded by crowds and concrete, remain invisible and disconnected. Every corner, every abandoned detail, every step echoing along tells an untold story, where the silence of the night is the only interlocutor.

A boy traverses through thoughts of past, present, and future on a contemplative trip through the city.