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- Paulo is a 45-year-old Brazilian flight attendant. He is internationally famous in the after-hours world for the fabulous persona he has worked tirelessly to create, his artistic alter-ego, Gazelle. Paulo is HIV+ but never got sick before and now he sees his own life is in danger for the first time. With the sudden and tragic sad death of Eric, his partner of seven years, Paulo must pass through a life transformation. Looking to survive, he embarks on a conscious transformation, beginning with filtering what matters in his life. On his path, besides the new lover, he finds collaborators that push him forward in life and show more meanings for the word Love.
- Ten witnesses to the rise of the queer night scene in Teresina, Piauí, revisit stories and memories from the early 1980s.
- In the last few years, everywhere in the world, individuals and small groups of people have started to cultivate vegetables in their own gardens, in their allotments, in their balconies, in their terraces and in neglected places of their cities. They do that, because they want fresh and healthy food, they want to change their way of life, the place where they live and the urban environment. "God save the green" tells the stories of people who are regaining a sense of community through gardening and, at the same time, they are changing their lives and the places they live in. The stories take place in the peripheries of large and medium-sized cities in the northern and southern hemispheres: Turin, Bologna, Nairobi, Casablanca, Berlin, Teresina. The film evoke the nature beauty that can exist inside our cities. A poetical narration, based on Karel Capek and R. Borchardt texts, unfold the strong relationship between mankind and the urban nature. The narration flows into six possible and innovative routes to follow in finding a way to produce healthy and nutritious foods on one's own, perhaps even to sell some of them. The six routes are: the last garden in one of the most crowded peripheries of Casablanca; hydroponic cultivation in Teresina, Brazil; community gardens in Berlin; growing vegetables inside bags in one of Nairobi's slums; hanging gardens in Berlin, Turin and Bologna; Guerrilla gardening in Berlin. "God save the green" is a film about the creation of a new possible urban landscape, the third landscape, where green space is not merely a decorative feature but is something that is lived-in, creative
- Birth, life and death. The fates weave a wire of destiny.
- A reflection on the works and thinking of the last years of production by Torquato, grandson: such as the magazine "Navilouca", the film "Terror da Vermelha", the column "Geleia Geral" and the controversial Cinema Novo X Marginal, among other passages important aspects of Brazilian culture in the 60s and 70s.
- Eliseu is a quiet, lonely fellow. The kind that would go unnoticed were not for his peculiar condition: he crackles. Because of that he can't get around without drawing attention. When a young dancer crosses his path, something happens.
- A theater director is forced to interrupt the rehearsal of his new show to give a testimony about the exercise of Art in the State of Piauí.
- Paulo and Natasha are two young people in love who are both actors in the same theatre group. Even though she isn't able to meet up with him, she expresses her love in a note, a note that can only end in a broken heart.
- In Teresina, capital city of Piauí, a revolution in journalism seems to be happenning. In this short documentary, made mostly with the money of its makers, the film examines the struggle of the city's traditional newspapers (symbolized by the newspaper "Diário do Povo") to survive in a world that seems to be bound to be inherited by on-line websites. The film features interviews with four journalists--three involved with on-line journalism and the new owner of the "Diário," an idealist young entrepaneur.
- An intimate account on a 1000 km journey on a river in the North East of Brazil, on a self made raft, carrying a small household including two children. Life in slow motion with fleeting encounters along the banks. When the family arrives after a month in Teresina, the merchandise is sold, the raft dismantled, branch by branch, leaf by leaf.
- A sensitive documentary about old age from the female point of view.
- Gloria has a heavy heart and is preoccupied by something as she goes to visit her old college acquaintance, Ivette, who is simply obnoxious. Gloria finally breaks down and tells her what is on her mind.
- Dante is having a night of insomnia of those. Nothing brings him peace needed to reach sleep. Full of guilt and disappointments in his consciousness, he weaves the web of his unbreakable heavy reality.