Metamorphosis’ Chantings or That Time When I Incarnated as Porpoise

Ainá Xisto

Driven by will to give life and realizing the hinder it’s inevitable to face the spiral of time. An abyssal record guided by morethanhuman relations through internal landscapes and authentic conversations to reestablish the flow of Metamorphosis: leaping from being to being like new ways of saying I.


FESTIVALS:

[2024] Cinéma du Réel [France]
[2024] Ann Arbor Film Festival [USA]
[2024] Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival [Portugal]
[2024] EUREKA University Film Festival [Colombia]
[2024] Blue Danube Film Festival [Austria, Hungary, Slovakia]
[2024] FIDBA - Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Buenos Aires [Argentina]
[2024] Bendita Tú Film Festival [Argentina]
[2024] Cinespaña - FESTIVAL DE CINÉMA ESPAGNOL ET PORTUGAIS [France]
[2024] Festival dei Popoli [Italy]
[2024] Entre Olhares - Mostra de Cinema Português [Portugal]
[2024] L'Alternativa - Barcelona Independent Film Festival [Spain]
[2024] Filmschoolfest Munich [Germany]
[2024] Caminhos do Cinema Português [Portugal]
[2024] Festival Jóvenes Realizadores - Granada Film Fest [Spain]
[2024] Spirit of Mekas [UK]
[2024] Beijing International Short Film Festival [China]
[2024] Festival Tous Courts of Aix-en-Provence [France]
[2024] Havana Film Festival - Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano  [Cuba]
[2025] Slamdance Film Festival [USA]
[2025] Glasgow Short Film Festival [UK]
[2025] Porto Femme - Festival Internacional de Cinema [Portugal]
[2025] Cavia [The Netherlands]
[2025] Humboldt International Film Festival [USA] 
[2025] Slamdance Film Festival [USA]

Experimental, Documentary
2024, Portugal, Brazil, 12’

Script: Ainá Xisto
Cinematography: Ainá Xisto
Sound: Ainá Xisto, Bernardo Bento
Editing: Ainá Xisto, Brás Moreau Antunes
Production: Ainá Xisto, Brás Moreau Antunes / Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Cast: Ainá Xisto, Evani Moreira Maia, Hinho Moreno, Pajé Natto Tupinambá


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