Unlimited Showcase

Limite, Mário Peixoto's 1931 masterpiece, lends its name as inspiration to this exhibition that houses the main space for experimentalism and innovation in the Festival, and which has captivated the event's audience since 2019. 

Each of the three programs in the exhibition explores different aesthetic and narrative aspects perceived in the short films selected this year. 

In the program "Earth, Moon and Other Worlds", the films establish a dialogue with each other at the intersection of multiple cosmic perspectives, stirring our planetary perception by playing with authorial visions of real or invented worlds. The program "Dead Can Dance" invests in the supernatural and in narrative possibilities inspired by the universe of the afterlife and phantasmagoria. Finally, "Psicocosmos" explores the inner worlds and the deep relationships that exist between reality and human subjectivities. 

Among the short films that were shown and awarded at important festivals such as Oberhausen, IDFA, Locarno and DocLisboa, the strong African presence among the 18 works in the exhibition also stands out – films from Algeria, Senegal, Angola, Guinea and Ivory Coast are part of the selection.