When A River Becomes A Border

The last stretch of the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin, victim of possession, imposition and exploitation for several generations, acts as a spectator of its own history through three aspects: its colonization, its romanticization and its negligence. Throughout this sensitive and sensorial journey, the river connects with its roots, and with different views and aspects that converge in its current state.

Spring of 1990. Economic blockade in newly Independent Lithuania. Ukrainian student Taras arrives to a small town in Lithuania, where in a big house lives his secretly beloved Regina. However, his unexpected guest appearance only causes more tensions in Regina's family. She has to make a decision: stay loyal to her parents or follow her future with Taras.

A young woman falls in love with a political activist who's wanted by the police.

Lauriana decides to go back to the place where Giovani, her boyfriend, died while ago.

One of Australia's worst environmental disasters. The film calls upon experts, Indigenous elders and locals, to unravel the cause and effects of this catastrophe on people and wildlife.

On a visit to their industrializing Southern China homeland, Rain, a rebellious Chinese-American risks their tense relationship with their maternal family to find the truth about their estranged father–whose legacy was entangled with the Baiji dolphin driven to extinction.

The film discusses the artificiality and the Fragility of the border between Cameroon and Chad, which is determined by the Chari river. The people residing around the riverbank go freely back and forth, and take advantage of these socio-ethnic corridors to sneak between the two nationalities in order to seize the opportunities presented to them. The film accompanies Waldiga, a university student in Chad, who as many others in this region has a life on both sides.

A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.