Meibe Rodrigues

Purple Dictatorship

Yeda, the green-faced woman, sells homemade bread to support the house where she lives with her sick husband. Through the context of green-faced people, we know the reality of those who live on the fringes of a purple-faced society.

Dona

Between the crisis of street cinemas and the success of large shopping malls, we follow the story of Dona, a cleaning lady who spent her entire youth working at a major street cinema in the capital of Minas Gerais, Brazil. But with the theater facing imminent closure, she begins to fear for her own future and that of her coworkers. Almost three decades later, a more mature Dona works as a cleaner in a shopping mall cinema. In the end, she always wonders what it would be like to watch a movie in a theater for the very first time.

At night all cats are brown

The night of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is a time capsule that relativizes the passage, blurs the senses, and recasts the definitions of future in the life of young Junior - who cannot wait to be emancipated from absolutely everything.

Monalisa

Between memories and fantasies, Marcos, Maria e Monalisa face their insecurities, desires and fears.

SOFIA

Breu

I Never Thought It Would Be Like This

Through memories of her own past, the artist Meibe Rodrigues proposes a reflection on negritude and survival.

Arrudas Boulevard

Nilson, a guide at the Municipal Aquarium of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is one of those affected by the constant flooding caused by torrential rains and floods in the Arrudas River basins in the city, which is now facing the greatest flood in its history.

Ardenti Maleficis

MOIRAS

Deep within an old data processing center, through jumbled wires, ancient codes and fading recollections, three processors work on human memories. Suddenly, amidst the chaos, something begins to take shape.