“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered exempt from punishment by the court. They feel time going by. Slowly. The film settles in this individual time.

If I didn’t blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but... this is me.

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

Luís phobia of water triggers a series of dreams that drag him to his death, simultaneously transferring his subconscious to his wife.

Child solidarity is stronger than death.

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.