In a small Brazilian seaside town we follow the efforts of Paula, who is pregnant of her third child, to build a pool in her humble beach house, so the family can enjoy the rest of their vacation. Financial difficulties will interrupt the work and reveal certain aspects of a tense family routine, full of small frustrations.
Watch the official The Joy of Things 2022 trailer in HD below.
Patricia Saravy as Paula
Magali Biff as Antônia
Messias Gois as Guto (Gustavo)
Lavinia Castelari as Gabi (Gabriela)
Dircinha Macêdo as Senhora da Igreja
Thais Fujinaga Director
Thiago Macedo Correia Producer
Lara Lima Producer
Thais Fujinaga Writer
André Luiz de Luiz Director of Photography
Brazil 29 November 2021
Netherlands 03 June 2021
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13 November 2022
In Adios Amor, the discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot—Maria Moreno, a migrant mother driven to speak out by her twelve children’s hunger.
23 March 2022
Jasper does not want to be alone. He wants to share his life. Fransie is independent and prefers it that way.
12 October 2022
While her relationship with her mother worsens, a grieving young adult wants to see her father, one last time.
05 March 2022
In the face of AAPI violence, an intergenerational coalition of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, People of Color organizers come together to organize a march across historic Washington Heights and Harlem, as a continuation of the historic and radical Black and Asian solidarity tradition.
23 November 2022
Follows two couples meeting together for the first time after months of being on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
30 September 2022
An exposé into the world of online grooming and sextortion that is a present-day reality for one in seven children online.
01 October 2022
With only each other to depend on, 14-year-old Shamira and her mother flee tribal genocide. While they fight to escape South Sudan’s violent civil war, experts and defectors challenge those in power.
12 October 2022
A radio show by Count Slashula at 'Slash FM', on a Halloween Night, will be presenting and warning viewers about the creepy stories they are about to watch, involving death, blood and some laughs.
01 September 2022
Mauve is the color palette Monet used to represent his wife Camille Doncieux on her deathbed. It's also the color palette of suffering and complex trauma; of visible and invisible bruises, from the female gaze.
15 July 2022
Aman Khanna, a once successful singer, is drowning his life into alcohol, despair and self- destruction after his 6 years old son died in a freak accident.
01 October 2022
Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making.
12 August 2022
A mysterious protagonist is on a quest worth spending 150 years playing chess to unlock, and Sarajevo, now called Neosarayevo, is under the control of a sinister Cyberdyne-esque corporation - Sodyn.
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