Augusto Trainotti

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

From a repressive childhood to artistic revolution, Ney Matogrosso transforms Brazil's stages — and himself — through music, creativity and inner fire.

Haunted by violence and prejudice, he dials 145 and slips into the anonymous intimacy of Brazil’s most iconic HotLine – the Disque Amizade. Between desire and fear, pleasure and pain, his journey unravels the delicate boundaries between reality, fantasy, and dream.

Eva prepares for the fateful moment: meeting her boyfriend's family.

“Nobody Leaves Alive” by André Ristum is shot in beautiful but also distancing black and white. Looking at the Venice line-up, this seems to be a trend this year among the maestros of cinema. The film is inspired by true events that took place in the last century in the “Colonia” hospital in Brazil. Whoever didn’t fit the standards of society, or their family’s perception of it, was locked away, tortured, and killed. There were altogether more than 60,000 victims. Hope dies last, and some of the inmates don’t give up the fight. We’re reminded of film classics such as “One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest” or “Alcatraz”.

By placing a mirror in front of desire, we follow 5 interviewees and 6 performers who engage in a dialogue about how the fine line between desire and compulsion is navigated. Considering the hyper exploitation of desire through applications, what is freedom within a capitalist system that "liberates" while also oppresses?

A mother struggles trying to avoid her son of becoming insane like his deceased father, but maybe it's already too late.