Bad Living | Living Bad

The audacity that two girls demonstrate when they protest the lack of action in the face of climate change at the museum where Vera works inspires her to give rise to her own rebelliousness.

Astrakhan is the Russian city, 1979 the year remembered. A year and a half and a journey covering many kilometers, from Moscow to the Caspian Sea, to Azerbaijan. The beginning of the voyage is the search for a haven. Martim’s parents, who was 15 years old then, are militants of the Communist Party and see the Soviet Union as an ideal to aspire to. At the age of 57, Martim recalls his clandestine life, the studies and passions left behind and the ideal lost to time.

If on a foggy night a blonde woman. This is not exactly how Italo Calvino’s novel begins, but it’s how this meeting between the woman and two young men in a garden somewhere, on the outskirts of a city, begins.

The summer holidays take Inês to the house where she grew up. Recovering from a recent family mourning, we follow her return to the city she lives in. A heat wave follows her night walks.

Cosmos, dolphins, loneliness and techno. Butterflies, lovers and raves. We close our eyes, and travel the entire universe in a single night.

Georges Bizet’s famous opera Carmen tells the story of the eponymous gypsy woman, depicted as being impulsive and with an eye on smuggling. Taking this perpetuated stereotype into account, we visit a group of Spanish gypsy women who are claiming their own space.

The everyday monotony. Bureaucratic work, the shared custody of her daughter. Until her mother’s death underlines how much Helena lives in a middle space, between birth and death. The clarity that mourning brings, through nostalgic but humorous eyes, leads to new considerations about how to live the rest of her days.

A traumatic event leads to different ways of reacting among members of a group of friends. While some revolt, others move away from reality, looking for comfort in a virtual world.

Two stories separated by time and united by the concept of a ceramic dildo. In contemporary days, Rebeca tries out the artisanal manufacture of dildos that is not totally dominated by the usual heteronormative and phallic image. Centuries earlier, a discovery of a similar object unleashed an illicit relationship.

A little fish that murmurs that it is alive. A village where children do not know death. In his first feature film, Alexander David creates a community without adults, where children are governed by strict beliefs and where loss of innocence is the awareness of a world beyond their island.

A filmic essay that relates the aesthetic representation of dinosaurs with the history of capitalism, with the dinosaur as a figure of the imaginary that is shaped according to political ideologies, concepts of power, gender and extinction.