In the small, sleepy Mediterranean town of Umag, the unusual appearance of a bear in the midst of wild asparagus season sparks a conflict, dividing the community into skeptics and those who believe the bear truly exists. Following a small local event that spirals wildly out of proportion, the film explores the blurry lines between truth and lies in the age of social media.
In the future, emotions and gestures have disappeared. But we are in the present: five researchers arrive on electric scooters in a village in the Basque Country, searching for what their time has forgotten. Through interviews and observation, they enter the intimacy of its inhabitants, until the boundaries between the different times begin to blur.
The footage from the director's wedding triggers a dark family history. Between reality and fiction, the story unfolds with the voiceover narration of her aunt, guardian of a secret whose revelation could destroy her.
Two friends who share a house with two apartments and a well in their garden begin to trade with it. One bottles it, and the other waters a vegetable garden whose produce she sells. They build a machine around the well to exploit it increasingly better. The machine works faster and faster.
In search of deliverance in a post-apocalyptic Philippines, a distraught mother takes her reluctant daughter on a secret pilgrimage to partake in their god-king's divine ascension.
Drawing from the world of rafts and canoes in Northeast Brazil, the film finds in conversations about color, landscape, and abstraction a gateway to the emotional imagination of local sailors. Between performance, documentary, and images of the São Francisco River regatta, its images weave together a narrative that blends the everyday with fiction.
