Surto & Deslumbramento

A reminiscence of the director's gentle awakening to sex before he loses his virginity.

Cecília, a successful young model, returns to Recife, her hometown, to spend Christmas with her mother. One night, a neighbour she hadn’t seen for a long time, João, shows her a bottle with a mysterious and intoxicating green substance. Cecília begins to fall in love with João, but also discovers he is involved in a secret cult around the figure of Salomé, the luxurious biblical princess.

Darling, he came to see me again today. I end every session more shook than the last. Because, unlike all my other patients, he shows no discomfort whatsoever with his sexual freakishness. On the contrary. I maintain my diagnosis: acute melancholia and flight from reality. He goes so deep in his delusion sometimes that he imagines he's some kind of prophet. As if he was part of a cult.

It feels so good to dream of you. It feels so real it fills me with pleasure. And I can't think about anything else.

My biggest dream, my ultimate, absolute dream, was basically to wreck a family.

A documentary filmmaker sleeps with his camera to film the dreams he has at night.

“Honey, thanks for taking care of the house. There's wine in the fridge. If Raja gets restless, just give him a cookie.”

A neighborhood populated by ghosts of a relationship and a tradition.

An experimental film collectively produced in 16mm at Maumau - Recife.

A documentary experiment that fictionalizes the reality of part of the LGBTQ+ community in Recife. For two years, with a cybershot in his hands, the director captured the attempts to maintain a network of affection between his friends and how this somehow results in cultural productions.

It would be a swan, it would be a heron; white magic evil eyes.

Autumn has arrived. Soon we will dive into the cold darkness.

Follows the daily life and memories of Elza Show, a drag queen from Recife dedicated to singing the great Brazilian radio divas.