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Poor People the Great

After working in Bangkok as construction worker, a man decides to return back to his hometown upcountry.

The story of a group of friends who meet at the home of Marcos (filmmaker and gay) in the pre-event of a costume party where the slogan is: "Men dress as women and women as men". During that previous one, the owner of the house shows his friends his first short film (Porno de Autor). A story about two teenagers and the relationship of one of them with the older brother of the other. The concept of the short, which proposes to tell a story in a very natural and everyday way, full of details and above all of sexual tension, ends up moving, inevitably, to the group of friends.

Documentary

Postcard to Daddy

As a child, Michael Stock was sexually abused - by his own father. 25 years later he is still looking for inner peace. In conversations with his family and friends and his own reflections, he paints an ever clearer, if contradictory picture of what happened and of the consequences for each of the family members. Old family films seem to show a happy family - excerpts from Michael's first feature film hint at his extreme adult life, overshadowed by his lifelong trauma. Yet in spite of the intense drama, the film doesn't have an atmosphere of anger and hatred but rather a surprising air of hope and love of life. Michael's aim is not to accuse the "perpetrator" but to understand. In the end, he takes his video "Postcard" to his father. With the camera running, he confronts him with his past.