Chinese-portuguese Short Films Programme B

**Cinematheque・Passion

1. Amarela

2024/15'/Brazil/In Portuguese and Japanese with Chinese and English subtitles

Director·André Hayato SAITO

São Paulo, July 1998. On the day of the World Cup final between Brazil and France, 14-year-old Erika Oguihara, a Japanese-Brazilian teenager who rejects her family's traditions, is eager to celebrate a world title for her country. Amidst the tension that builds during the match, Erika experiences a violence that seems invisible and plunges into a painful sea of emotions.

2. Bad for a Moment

2024/15'/Portugal/In Portuguese with Chinese and English subtitles

Director·Daniel SOARES

A team-building event goes wrong and brings the owner of an architect studio face-to-face with the lower-class neighborhood that his company is gentrifying.

3. Barbed Wire
2025/22'/ Brazil/In Portuguese with Chinese and English subtitles

Director · Gustavo DE CARVALHO

In Brazil’s rural countryside, two sisters and their new stepfather are forced to spend an evening in the emergency room of a hospital— while they struggle with their own family dynamics.

4. Cockroach Family

2025/28'/Macao/In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
Director·Niko HO

In the Fruit Market of Macau, Ka Kit takes over his parents' precarious business. Faced with the bad consequences of his parents' debts over the past 30 years, Ka Kit physically and mentally exhausted, and he is unable to cope with the situation.

5. Cult of Personality

2025/20'/Macao/In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles

Director·  WONG Chi Kit

Scheming older brother Yoshi teams up with diner owner Uncle Dog to stage a farcical "UN-themed spectacle," desperate to viral-wash their failing restaurant. Yukio—the unwitting younger brother planted as part of the act—accidentally becomes the city’s internet celebrity. Does anyone truly win?