TRABALHEI ATÉ ONTEM

Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.

Paris, sum­mer 2020. Actors from “la Comédie-Française”, France’s most pres­ti­gious the­ater, rehearse Christophe Hon­oré’s new play, an adap­ta­tion of Mar­cel Proust’s “The Guer­mantes Way”. When the show is sud­den­ly can­celed, the dra­ma group decides to go ahead with it any­way, in the name of art and for the joy of act­ing together.

Juan, a seventy-year-old man with senile dementia, shares a room with Manuel, a young sparrow.

One day during the Covid pandemic, when classes are being held online, the teacher who is concerned about the students who have not attended the online classes decides to visit them. Also the mother of a four-year old, she buckles her daughter into the car and takes off for the students’ houses.

Every night, at eight o'clock, Hermann appears alone on stage to give a short violin concert, but his audience is not exactly that he believes it is. (Inspired by the real story of Hermann Schreiber, Vigo, Spain, 2020.)

El Viaje

On the wild west coast of Auckland in New Zealand we follow one man's enforced isolation. Pacing the beach, he wonders if those dear to him will ever be seen again.

A short poetic narrative about dealing with separation. Told in French and presented to English audiences without subtitles to leave the characters' feelings up to interpretation.

Inácio Garapa, Um Matuto Sonhador

Raúl is seriously ill with COVID-19 in the hospital. His sisters wait at home for a call that will give them news about his state of health.

The movie follows Kurdistan during the Covid-19 crisis in 2019, and how it ruined relationships between loved ones.

After having to quarantine together during COVID-19, a mother and daughter are forced to confront their personal obstacles and relationship tensions.

Three people from a former theater club get back in touch for the first time in 20 years during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each of them have led completely different lives, but an absent woman continues to cast a shadow over them. This story takes place over one night, and explores the themes of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic and connections between people.

Nueva Tierra

A girl struggles to return to her home country amongst the COVID-19 Pandemic.

A husband and wife are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Ben attempts to prove that he is stuck in a time-loop amidst the global pandemic, documenting the banality of this recurring day on his iPhone. But he soon realizes his hypothesis isn’t asking the right questions. With the unwitting help of his friend, Jeremy, Ben discovers that he is shifting through the multiverse and sets out to discover if a return to his previous existence is possible before his alternate realities run out and existence as we know it comes to an end.

An elegant dinner, which takes place in real time, brings together a group of intellectuals in the early 90s in São Paulo, Brazil: the hosts are the editor of the country's top news magazine and her husband, the company's lawyer, and the occasion is the wedding anniversary of the magazine publisher and his wife, a famous theater actress. The publisher has written an open letter to the president of the country, with serious denunciations, which will run in the upcoming issue. He risks being arrested this very evening. As tensions increase with the imminence of prison, secrets come to light revealing the conflict between the ethics sought in public life and the ethics practiced in private life.

Mike, a young adult, waiting to go out on a date with his boyfriend is thwarted by a life-changing event. It is told from the perspective of his mirror.

Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.