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A man and a woman. They want to see each other. One lives in Rio, the other in Sao Paulo. Both decide simultaneously, and without telling the other, to get in the car and drive to see each other. Somewhere halfway their paths will have to cross...

O Pulso (Pulse)

A young man is walking along a busy city street when, for no apparent reason, he drops dead. Life is over, but there are still feelings.

Festivals / Awards
25° Festival de Gramado, Cinema Latino, 1997, Melhor Direção e Melhor Direção de Arte, Best Director and Best Art Designed; 30° Festival do Cinema Brasileiro do Brasilia, 1997, Melhor Roteiro e Melhor Edição de Som, Best Screenplay and Best Editing; 5° Festival de Cuiabá, 1997, Melhor Filme e Melhor Fotografia, Best Film and Photography; IV Festival de Vitória, 1997, Melhor Fotografia e Melhor Direção de Arte, Best Photography and Best Art Designed ; 4° Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, 1998, Melhor Filme de Ficção com mais de 15 minutos, Best Film; 48° Festival Internacional de Cinema de Berlim, 1998, Representante brasileiro de curta-metragem na mostra Panorama; II Brazilian Film Festival of Miami, 1998, Melhor Filme de Curta-Metragem, Best Short Film; 14° Rio Cine, 1998, Melhor Filme pelo Júri Popular/TVE e Melhor Filme de Curta-Metragem, Best Film (Audience) and Best Short Film; Festival de Viña del Mar, 1998, 2° Lugar Ficção, 2nd Best Film (Ficcion)

Morte (Death)

An old couple gets ready for the "final journey". In order to forget nothing - flowers, music, luggage - everything is planned to the minutest detail.

Festivals / Awards
2003
32. International Film Festival Rotterdam

2002
Toronto Latino Film & Vídeo Festival
Rio BR Festival (Brazil)
9th Vitória Cine Vídeo Festival - Best Actor (Brazil)
12th Curta Cinema (Brasilien)
35th Festival de Brasília does Cinema Brasileiro (Brazil)
6th Mostra Tiradentes de Cinema (Brazil)

José Roberto Torero was born in 1963 in Santos in Brazil. His short films have won awards at several festivals including Clermont-Ferrand (?Nun et Simper?), Toronto (?Amour!?), Hamburg (?O Bolo?), and Greece (?A Alma do Negation?). He was nominated for the Oscar for ?Uma história de Futebol? (A Soccer Tale). He has also published four novels.

Indian Village

A Jesuit priest tries to teach the ten commandments to the polygamous tribe of the Guaranis in this humorous tale set in the early years of Brazilian colonization.

Festivals / Awards
4. Festival de Recife, Best Film;
4. Festival de Cinema e Video de Curitiba, Best Film;
Pelo Juri da Ocic - Organizacao Catolica International de Cinema, Best Short Film

O Branco (The Colour White)

Fredi, a young blind boy who lives with his mother, leads a relatively routine existence. Stripped of all the enchanting things that make daily actions interesting, Fredi finds joy in specultion about the color of the things around him. Prefering the color white over all other colors, Fredi lives a life ruled by his color perceptions. When a chance encounter with a pretty girl leads Fredi to look beyond his perceptions and into an entirely new world, he just may have to change his views.

Festivals / Awards
2002
9th International Film Festival Delle Donne, Italy - Best Short Film

2001
51. Berlinale / Kinderfilmfest - Special mention of the jury
5. Festival de Cinema de Recife - Canal Brasil Acquisition Award
5th Brazilian Film Festival of Miami - Best Film Direction
3. Int. Short Film Festival of Belo Horizonte - Best Brazilian Film (Audience Prize)
29.International Film Festival of Algavare FICA / Portugal - Salver in Silver for the Best Iberian-American Film.
24. Film and Video Guarnicê of Maranhão - Best Film (Audience Prize), Best Argument and Honourable Mention awarded by OCIC
31. Giffoni Film Festival, Italy - Best Short Film; Latin-American Film Festival of Biaritz - Best Short Film
Little Festival, exhibition for children in the 8th Vitória Film and Video Festival:Best Short Film - Audience Prize
1.Int. Film Festival for Children and Youth), Mar Del Plata - Best Short Fiction Film

2000
Festival do Rio BR Best Short Film; 7° Vitória Cine e Vídeo - Best Short Film and Best Screenplay
8. Festival de Cuiabá - Best Screenplay

Liliana Sulzbach is a journalist and has a master?s degree in political science. She studied Communication Science at the Freie Universität Berlin and then worked for the Hamburg production company "Kino Kompanie" as well as for Spiegel Television, Germany, where she directed documentaries. She has been an advertising film production coordinator since 1996 and today coordinates Zeppelin?s Cinema and Television Departament. She has directed several award-winning films, including "O Branco" (The Colour White), "A Invenção da Infância" (The Invention of Childhood) and "O Cárcere e a Rua" (The Prison and the Street).