WIP Work in Progress
Six feature films in the process of being completed curated by Cinéma En Construction Toulouse foram apresentados a agentes de vendas, programadores de festivais, distribuidores e também consultores de montagem, criando oportunidades de visibilidade e apoio para a conclusão e circulação das obras.
The Cinéma en Construction é uma iniciativa que busca apoiar a finalização de longas latino-americanos, auxiliando-os nas etapas de pós-produção e lançamento. A edição brasileira foi conduzida em inglês, com sessões presenciais, e reuniu especialistas do mercado internacional. A metodologia incluiu sessões de feedback com profissionais convidados e orientações para estratégias de montagem e finalização.
Os filmes brasileiros selecionados foram:
Brazil | 2025 | 90 min | Fiction
Director: Douglas Soares
Screenwriter: Douglas Soares
Production company: Glaz Entretenimento
Coproduction company: Meus Russos
Tunico is a “Papagaio”, a sub-celebrity who gained fame by chasing reporters to appear on TV, often in the background of news stories, thriving on coverage of funerals and televised tragedies. After a serious accident at an amusement park, he meets Beto, a mysterious and ambitious young man who becomes his apprentice. Blending social satire and psychological tension, the encounter between these characters will reveal the hidden side of the relentless pursuit of fame in Brazil.
Brazil | 2025 | 106 min | Fiction
Director: Luiz Dantas
Screenwriter: Luiz Dantas
Production company: Plano Geral
Amadeu, a solitary and methodical butcher, lives on the margins. His contained world begins to shift when he meets Nádia, a young woman waiting for a lost lover who promised to return. Driven by a deep need for connection, Amadeu embarks on a quiet, emotional journey where love, rejection, and self-discovery unfold in a visceral choreography of flesh, silence, and longing.
Brazil, Portugal | 2024 | 90 min | Fiction, animation
Director: Fernanda Salgado
Screenwriter: Fernanda Salgado
Production company: Apiário Estúdio Criativo
After the death of her grandmother, Ana, a young black French woman, finds herself adrift in the city where she was born and has always lived, increasingly isolating herself in her grief. Following clues left by her grandmother, she travels to Belo Horizonte, in Brazil, and there she finds Alice, her double, renting her grandmother's old apartment. In deciphering the affective cartography of the city, its memories, and ancestral connections, Ana and Alice unravel what it means to become who they are.
Brazil | 2025 |106 min | Fiction
Director: Aly Muritiba
Screenwriter: Aly Muritiba, Lenadro Saraiva, Taísa Machado, Fernando Barcelos
Production company: Paranoid Filmes
MC Sabrina, a young funk singer, is known for electrifying parties in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Her talent runs in her veins: she is the daughter of MC Priscila, a pioneering funk singer who struggled to manage her success and lost everything. Living together in Morro dos Prazeres, mother and daughter have a tumultuous relationship, which becomes even more complicated when Sabrina catches the eye of Alberto, a successful music producer. He promises to make her a star, but to achieve this, Sabrina will have to change her image, leaving her roots behind.
Brazil | 2026 | 77 min | Fiction
Directors: Cristiane Oliveira and Gustavo Galvão
Screenwriters: Cristiane Oliveira and Gustavo Galvão
Production company: Crisol Filmes
Coproduction company: 400 Filmes
Porto Alegre, 2019. Luiza receives videos from a stranger, Veronica, who tells stories of her youth in Uruguay. What seemed to be a mistake turns out to be a harsh truth: the mysterious Verónica has the same face as Luiza’s mother, already deceased.
Brazil | 2025 | 110 min | Drama
Directors: Bel Bechara and Sandro Serpa
Screenwriters: Bel Bechara and Sandro Serpa
Production company: Macondo Filmes
Coproduction company: Manjericão Filmes
Vera, a teacher, and Alda, a cleaner, work at the same school and live across from each other. They're connected by Joana, Vera’s student and Alda’s granddaughter. Vera is trapped in an abusive relationship. Alda can’t read or write, having never had time for herself. As they grow closer, Vera teaches Alda to read, and Alda supports Vera’s attempt to break free. Together, they subvert power at home and work—but have to face new risks.