These Latin American feature-length documentaries will be participating in this section of CONECTA 10. This category is aimed at projects in the editing or post-production stage, or those completed this year. The projects selected for the Connect with Distribution section are:
The Fabulous Time Machine
Country: Brazil
Dir: Eliza Capai
Prod: Mariana Genescá
Storyline: Clara (25), a young shaman in spiritual development, returns to Marajó Island, in Brazilian Amazon, to fulfill her spiritual duties within the pajelança cabocla tradition. Accompanied by a group of apprentice shamans, Clara goes through a moment of doubt and longing on the eve of her coronation as a shaman.
The young shaman
Country: Brazil
Dir: Rodrigo Antonio
Prod: Carlos Barbosa
Storyline: Clara (25), a young shaman in spiritual development, returns to Marajó Island, in Brazilian Amazon, to fulfill her spiritual duties within the pajelança cabocla tradition. Accompanied by a group of apprentice shamans, Clara goes through a moment of doubt and longing on the eve of her coronation as a shaman.
Where the Sun is Born
Country: Honduras
Dir: Laura Bermúdez y Jorge García
Prod: Servio Tulio Mateo
Storyline: Jorge García embarks on a spiritual and sensory journey toward his Afro-Caribbean roots. A revelation drives him to seek closure and reconnect with his ancestors, finding strength in the collective memory and resilience of his people.
Looking for Bariş
Country: Argentina and Colombia
Dir: Luna Mato Chague y Martina Cruz
Prod: Sarah Fernandez Oks
Storyline: Coca, an Argentine grandmother, falls in love for the second time in her life. She firmly believes that her late husband, Cacho, has reincarnated as Barış, a famous Turkish soap opera actor. Driven by her desire, she decides to travel to Istanbul with her granddaughter to find him.
Jailers
Country: Brazil
Dir: Julia Hannud
Prod: Sabrina Zimmermann
Storyline: The fear and constant surveillance at work reveal a system that even confines its female JAILERS.
Smell of Diesel
Country: Brazil
Dir: Gizele Martins y Natasha Neri
Prod: Mariana Genescá e Gabriel Medeiros
Storyline: Smell of Diesel portrays the collective traumas caused by the militarization of the favelas in Rio de Janeiro occupied by the Armed Forces. Through voices from within the communities, the film documents the struggle for justice and reparation by victims of human rights violations, which continue to be perpetrated by the Brazilian Army.
A Place of Absence
Country: Bolivia y United States
Dir: Marialuisa Ernst
Prod: Marialuisa Ernst Co-Productora Brenda Avila
Storyline: Decades after her uncle’s disappearance during Argentina’s Dirty War, a filmmaker joins the Caravan of Mother, a group of Central American women traveling the migrant trail in search of loved ones who vanished trying to cross the US-Mexico border
That soul stealing device
Country: Paraguay
Dir: Giuliano Franco Ochipinti
Prod: Juanjo Pereira
Storyline: Starting with the long-unseen photographs Italian ethnographer Guido Boggiani captured of the Ishir-Tomaraho in late 19th-century Paraguay, this film, over a century later, turns them into a powerful tool to deconstruct the colonial gaze that still defines how Indigenous are visually portrayed.
Landless Children
Country: France and Chile
Dir: René Ballesteros
Prod: Camille Laemlé, Nicole Bonilla, Johanne Schatz
Storyline: Two Chileans adopted in Europe embark on a journey. Daniel was declared dead at birth; Juan dreams of a wounded woman. Both seek to understand their origins, find a mother, and reconstruct their stories. Landless Children is an invitation to a journey—both mental and physical—into the depths of a forgotten land.
I absolutely refuse
Country: Mexico
Dir: Nina Wara Carrasco Gómez
Prod: Lourdes Manzano López
Storyline: In 2015, my cousin Andrea was murdered by her partner in La Paz, Bolivia; this made me realize it could have happened to me. Through her story, the silence in my family was broken, and we began to speak about our experiences of violence.
Together, we tried to understand how to keep resisting and how to heal our history.
I Will Never be a Cop
Country: Chile
Dir: Carolina Moscoso
Prod: Camila José Donoso
Storyline: A film essay that begins with my uncle Jorge’s archive of our family of cops. The film creates a dialogue between those images and my own recordings in which I imitate him. I question the inheritance of policing, the act of filming, and a political process through editing. But in my everyday life, love distracts me, emotions take over the film.
The Harpsichordist
Country: Brazil
Dir: Luiz Eduardo Ozório
Prod: Luiz Eduardo Ozório
Storyline: On the eve of turning one hundred, maestro and harpsichordist Roberto De Regina revisits his memories and reflects on his pioneering legacy of reintroducing early music in Brazil, while facing prejudice and resistance. A sensitive journey about art, time, and the courage to break barriers.
The Wind Will Blow
Country: Brazil
Dir: Delvair Montagner, Marcelo Díaz
Prod: Marcelo Díaz
Storyline: Varῖ Mëma, an anthropologist and a Marubo Indigenous woman, is no longer recognized as one of her own people. Paradoxically, she is also an outsider in the academic world. Delvair, an anthropologist who witnessed her birth in the 1970s, seeks to reconnect with Varῖ — and with the memories of an Amazon that no longer exists.
The Stationary Traveler
Country: Chile
Dir: Fernando Lavanderos y Sebastián Pereira
Prod: Francisco Hervé y Karla Falcón
Storyline: Two filmmakers propose to Cristián Sánchez, a Chilean cult director, to make a film. The condition is that he must bring the characters from his classic works back to life, but as zombies. He struggles to protect his artistic principles but ends up trapped in his own movie.
About Conecta
Conecta is an international documentary industry event aimed at Latin American producers and filmmakers with documentary projects in development, editing, post-production, or completed but not yet premiered.
The meeting brings together national and international industry professionals, including representatives from funds, markets, and festivals; distributors, sales agents, exhibitors; as well as platform and television programmers, and producers.
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