In the town of Canudos, young people take part in a casting test where they reveal their desires, conflicts
and what needs to be told in the movie. Together, they act out episodes from the Canudos war and the
saga of the Bendegó meteorite, found in the region over two centuries ago and regarded as a ‘sacred
stone’, while reflecting on their past, their identity and the possibilities of the present in the harsh reality
of the Brazilian hinterland.

1973. Glenda Earl and her husband disembark in the Far West of Bahia in response to a mysterious
advertisement calling for American cowboys to occupy the Brazilian Savanna. After introducing
soybeans in the region, as in a western, the Earls find themselves surrounded by the barbarism of
military neocolonialism. Now, Glenda’s grandson finds her diary, investigating his grandfather’s death
and conjuring ghosts of the Agricultural Frontier.

After receiving a series of letters written in the Tupi language by his 16th century ancestors, Isaias
Guarapira, the youngest shaman of the indigenous Potiguara people, sets out in search of an answer to
these documents, deserting the Catholic Church and confronting local political forces.

Lourdes is bedridden, experiencing Alzheimer’s. She communicates only through her gaze. A network of
female support mobilizes to ensure the necessary care for the matriarch at this time, composed of her
daughters and granddaughters. Among them is Mariana (38), granddaughter, director, and character of
the film. Faced with Lourdes’s care, the director evaluates if she is confronted with her own biological
clock. A film about motherhood .

Life and work of the creator, dancer and choreographer Maria Esther Stockler, who made an impact with
her presence, energy and beauty, eternalized in films and plays. woman facing the challenges in the
world of men in narratives always told under the ‘male gauze’. The marginal and free body as an art
platform and an instrument of life.

After four decades of social struggle in favor of agrarian reform, the Brazilian Landless Workers’
Movement decides to field its own candidates in parliamentary elections. The young activist Rosa
Amorim has been chosen to run for a seat as a representative in the state of Pernambuco. Her victory
marks the beginning of this film. A poetic road movie along the roads of the Northeast and through the
history of this movement.

João Silvério Trevisan (79) is a novelist and avant-garde filmmaker whose only film was censored by the
Brazilian dictatorship in 1970. 52 years later, he decides to document his journey of exhuming his
father’s body while shooting his new film: the story of a man who reaches sainthood by self-fellating.
The two men meet in this hybrid documentary that mixes reality and fiction, crossing fact and fable.

“Third Act” will follow the routine of Retiro dos Artistas, the main shelter for artists in Brazil, while
documenting the former actors and actresses who live there rehearsing the play “Hamlet” with a young
theater group. At the end, the actors will perform in a theater in Rio de Janeiro, in a profound reunion
with the stage and art.