André Pacheco

Gabriela is a young black pianist who will perform at her first major recital. However, a dream about her late mother destabilizes Gabriela's mind and heart, jeopardizing her performance. From a series of encounters over the course of a day, Gabriela will embark on a journey of reconciliation with her memories and her mother.

On the last days of his life, while succumbing to alcoholism in a hospital, famed writer Lima Barreto chronicles his trajectory story as a black, poor writer living in Brazilian society between monarchy's dying days and early years of republic with its countless social problems, which formed the basis of his many novels.

Very new to the neighborhood, I am intrigued by the calm that reigns there. I never see my neighbours. Except for this young girl who lives across the street from me. A young girl I can't figure out. In the day she appears before me veiled, and in the night she reveals herself completely naked. The situation begins to turn into an obsession for me, until the day I discover that appearances were so deceptive.

The life and work of the late samba singer-songwriter Candeia.