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EM DESENVOLVIMENTO, 90 MIN , 2026
In a neighborhood where Brazil intertwines with Haiti, a documentary takes us to the CIEJA school in Perus. Under the spotlight of the theater, the students become guardians of memory. As they delve deeper into reading a play that addresses the forgotten history of the "Queixadas" strike during the dictatorship, the past resurfaces. Meanwhile, France, a Haitian student, faces the challenge of adapting to Brazil. In this intricate ballet between reality and imagination, the film takes a look at history through the eyes of women who live on the outskirts of the city of São Paulo.
DIRETORA
JULIANA SERFATY
Jo Serfaty directed the feature film Um Filme de Verão (72 min), about four young people from the outskirts of Rio, which was shown at over 30 international festivals. It received awards at L’Alternativa (Barcelona), Transcinema (Peru), an honorable mention at Doclisboa (2019), and a female highlight at the Mostra de Tiradentes with the Helena Ignez award for editor Cristina Amaral. It was also shown at festivals such as Lincoln Center (NY), Gothenburg, Documenta Madrid, Fidocs (Chile) and Edinburgh, and was praised by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the favorites to premiere in France. In addition to the feature film, he directed four award-winning short films, the children’s series Caverna de Petra (9 episodes) and the documentary De Volta às Aulas (6 episodes, Futura). Since 2021, she has been a member of the Sundance Documentary Fund selection committee and is a tutor at DOCSP and, in 2023, at FIDBA (Argentina). She is currently developing the feature fiction film Borda do Mundo (development award at Brlab and the only Brazilian film at Cine Qua Non Lab, Mexico) and the script for Refestança, directed by Vinicius Reis for Globo Filmes.
