Whip

For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodiment. Could cinema be an art of embodiment? By what rituals and actions could vision become tactile?

A girl wanders like a flaneur in the center of Athens: a Constitution, a War Museum, a Town Hall. She wears sunglasses and black clothes. "Kills" a boy outside the Galaxy bar and describes, sitting on the balcony of an apartment in Exarchia, the way the Molotov bomb is operating - it is an incendiary and not an explosive mechanism, he says.

Setting up as the prequel of two existing films of similar name, Belle de jour by Luis Buñuel, and Belle toujours by Manoel de Oliveira, the film is about the new story of Severine, the main character, with Paris as background. Two artists' ideas to recompose the original films make the beautiful and unique world in this movie. - 25 FPS

Based on Des Esseintes' literary black feast in A Rebours (1884) by Joris-Karl Huysmans.

Adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's "The Skin of Sorrow" or "The Wild Ass's Skin" (1831), said to be the last novel read by Sigmund Freud before his death. While reading it, he would have said: "This is the only book I needed".