Arthur Alfaia

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

Like the perfect ending of a great film - that is the way filmmaker João describes the end of his 10-year relationship with Hugo. Despite breaking up, they remained best friends. However, reentering the dating scene brought a whirlwind of emotions, revealing that reality can’t be controlled like a movie script.

Arthur, 26, sends an outburst audio to his friend Rachel wishing to be the protagonist and not a victim of reality. A film about pains, about living and dying, about time – quite scarce, it seems – and about the body