Caetano Gotardo

Uma Montanha em Movimento

The image of a body that is not in front of the camera. The absence of an image. The presence of a body. The materiality of a dream that is impossible to remember when one wakes up. Someone falls in love. Someone searches for words. Someone moves. Someone falls, or flies. Everyone dances.

Bury Your Dead

Edgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink of destruction, Edgar and his unlikely companion Tomás – a disgraced and excommunicated priest – embark on a dangerous road trip through a landscape plagued by chaos and despair.

Labyrinth

Ícaro and Diego, a couple in a date, lose their way in one of São Paulo’s rich neighborhoods. They try to escape this alien place, while a strange creature prowls.

Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter

Isabella, Jonata and Pedro are stuck at home for a weekend. Distressed by the state of the world and financial difficulties, the trio decides to go out on the streets of a dystopian São Paulo to relax, which allows them to meet many individuals in a similar situation, causing tragicomic and fantastic situations.

Unlearning to Sleep

Flávio loses his sexual appetite editing porn videos. José, his husband, is trying to create an equation that determines when humans will colonize Mars. Flávio is focused on a more internal journey, and José is trying to find ways to bring Flávio's lust back. Meanwhile, Hypnos, god of sleep and youtuber, tries to give people back the art of rest.

You Burn Us

A character who has a voice and a body narrates an interrupted love experience. This immersion in subjectivity, as well as some fragments of almost lost poems by Safo and Lucrécio and some musical paths, lead us through images of different bodies of other people in constant motion in the streets, at parties, at home or inside the subway, while they move from somewhere indefinite to another in the city of São Paulo - in an indeterminate mix between the most everyday concreteness of the gesture and the possible abstraction of dance.

Babelon

When an ordinary man attests the fakeness among the broadcastings and screens entanglement, a mysterious digital voice emerges to show him which secrets are hidden behind the false truths.

Your Bones and Your Eyes

João, a middle-class filmmaker, goes through a series of encounters with people like his long-time friend Irene; his boyfriend Álvaro; Matias, a young man he meets in the subway and has a sexual experience with, among others, some acquainted, others unknown. These encounters affect him and slowly begin to reveal a play of time frames which blends together life and creative process, present and memory.

Bird Boy

Gabriel is installed next to a tree in a noble neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Clarisse accompanies astonished and inert the treatment given to Gabriel, at the same time that leads a stagnant life and dependent of the mother.

Good Manners

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

Subybaya

Within me lives a silence. At night, he goes with his claws, hunting for something to scream.

The Care One Takes of the Care Others Must Take of Themselves

Tan needs to cry.

Kicks

Sandra is pregnant and wants a girl. Her husband Marcos wants a soccer player.

Story of a Feather

A teacher awaits the arrival of his late students. Far away, a young couple wakes up surrounded by trees. It’s ten-fifteen in the morning.

Choclo

The most mysterious object. The most concrete thing.

The Life of Matches Is Not a Piece of Cake, Kitty

Marcos hosts Robert in his house – and falls in love with him. When Michael Jackson dies, Marcos goes sick and Lígia, his sister, comes to help them.

New Dubai

In a middle-class neighbourhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what about love? Is love just a construction?

When I Was Alive

After losing his job and the end of his marriage, Júnior returns to his father's house. But that is not his childhood house anymore. His old room has been rented by a young woman and the place feels unwelcome and oppressive. Júnior develops and obsession for his family history, as strange things start happening in the house.

Matéria

Get down a little; I bow my head and disappear at the end of his bone.

The Japanese Boy

Two men talk by a window while they observe the neighborhood.

Eva Nil, Cem Anos Sem Filmes

Essay on Eva Nil, the first star of Brazilian cinema.

A Stem

Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.

Concert Number Three

A son and father must tell the mother the sad news.