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Three long-time friends, who are black gay men over fifty, arrange to meet up weeks before one of them moves to another city. The aim is, through a photo session, to reduce their nostalgia and strengthen their mutual support at a dramatic time in society, while at the same time planning future actions with the hope that this moment will pass.
Eight fables where consciousness, falsehood, nostalgia and fantasy are distributed into emotions and human sensations, exposing their souls before us.
Memory mechanisms are mysterious: we only see the stories we choose in order to construct our own reality. Every mark is a message in time, the invocation of an absence. To travel in the memory is to walk in time, zigzagging, a long road permeated by a dark, indecipherable logic… if we could choose seven moments to sum up our entire life, which ones would they be? The Dance of the Memory is a documentary-essay that guides us in that autobiographical search, where image and memory intertwine. It mixes archive material with an aesthetic and subjective tone.
A coming of age story about a boy in RIo de Janeiro, Brazil who, after his father's death, finds out about his family and where he came from.
