Latin Connections Film Festival in association with Brasil: A Slow Film Festival presents: INTO THE VOID: COLLECTIVE DREAMS IN BRAZILIAN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA This programme showcases a selection of contemporary Brazilian short films that reflect the country’s rich filmmaking talent and its political (and poetic) resistance, particularly during the years of the Bolsonaro presidency. These films, awarded at prestigious festivals like Locarno, Berlinale, and Cannes, delve into powerful themes of physicality, nature, transformation, and exploitation. They explore the strength of human bodies when they come together, and the profound impact of collective action to, why not, imagine a new world. The human body, perhaps the very foundation upon which capitalism is built, often goes unnoticed in its potential to create change when we move in harmony. Beautiful, complex, dissident bodies. This is a programme that will take you from pure laughter to pure emotion, dare we say, tears. Featuring intimate, deeply humanist character studies, innovative glass-painted animations, and formally daring films that incorporate Amazonian myths and ghosts, it offers a unique space for contemplating identity, culture clash, migration, and the potential of connection-making in an ultra-capitalist era: all garnished, by the way, with some incredible music scores and beats. At its heart, the programme is a tender yet defiant reminder of the power of human connection in the face of overwhelming challenges. It calls for an anti-capitalist reevaluation of our relationship with nature, and the ways in which we are (dis)connected from it, from the bustling streets of major cities to the deep recesses of the Earth. A journey that takes you from hyper-urban spaces like Rio or São Paulo, to the Amazon jungle, to the outer cosmos, and to the core of the Earth. Are you ready? Fasten your seatbelts.