Sentimental Education centers on the unique relationship between Áurea, a lonely 40 year old teacher, and a young man she has just met by chance – one of these encounters which mythology and literature are full of. A delicate soul who finds itself attracted to a beauty that seems to demand, disturb and move her. That shakes her up entirely. During the days following their first conversation, she will expose all her feelings through classes in which he will let himself be carried away. Until an unusual episode from the past is revealed and changes everything.

有三个朋友 Hilda, Matilda 和 Gaspar，周末，三个朋友Hilda, Matilda 和 Gaspar在意间市区破旧的公寓中相会，喝酒、聊天，一起度过了一段愉快的时光 ...

“If you had to choose between me and your mother, who would it be?” Capitu asks provocatively of her problematic lover. Elsewhere, they dance to inaudible music, with their friends, each couple keeping to a rhythm of their own. At times, this depiction of the memories we see one Dom Casmurro commit to paper with a flamboyant pen seems to be an interplay of conflicting emotions – particularly when jealousy raises its head.
Júlio Bressane, a major exponent of Brazilian avant-garde cinema and IFFR Film Maker in Focus in 2000, derived his material from the famous novel Dom Casmurro (1899) by Machado de Assis, who, like Casmurro, was tormented by epilepsy. Bressane composed this film in the form of a frank exploration of visual and theatrical possibilities; during a musical interlude, the violinist appears in the shot. Capitu and the Chapter is interspersed with fragments of Bressane’s previous works and leaves itself open to many interpretations.

A man living with his parents in a low middle-class apartment in Rio de Janeiro coldly stabs them with a razor and then goes to the movies. Marcia, a rich and dissatisfied young woman, takes advantage of a trip from her husband to go to her home in Petrópolis, where she receives a visit from an old friend, Regina.

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.