Sleep With Your Eyes Open

Dormir De Olhos Abertos

by Nele Wohlatz

A coastal city in Brazil. Fu Ang, Kai, and Xiao Xin rarely meet in this silent comedy of misunderstandings. But during a hot, slow-moving summer, delicate bonds grow between them like islands in a sea full of sharks.

Malês

by Antônio Pitanga

A couple about to get married are kidnapped from their homeland in Africa and brought to Brazil as slaves. Separated by fate, both struggle to survive the horrors of slavery and end up involved in the largest revolt of enslaved people in Brazil.

The Falling Sky

A Queda Do Céu

by Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, Eryk Rocha

Based on the powerful words of shaman and Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa, "The Falling Sky" portrays the Indigenous community of Watoriki as it engages in a vital funeral rite known as a Reahu - a collective effort to hold up the sky. The film stands as a trenchant shamanic critique of illegal gold mining, the deadly mix of epidemics brought by outsiders the Yanomami call "xawara", and those Davi calls the "merchandise people." Showcasing the beauty of Yanomami cosmology and its xapiri spirits while also highlighting this people's geopolitical importance, "The Falling Sky" invites us to dream far.