Filmed over seven years, the documentary follows Valter Hugo Mãe as he writes his novel “A Desumanização”, across journeys through Iceland, Brazil, Portugal, Colombia, and Macau. A visual meditation on solitude, loss, and belonging, featuring appearances by cartoonist Laerte Coutinho and Icelandic composer Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, mentor of bands such as Sigur Rós and Björk. The film is part of the project “The Meaning of Life”, which director Miguel Gonçalves Mendes has been developing for more than a decade: a series of nine features built as a kaleidoscope of contemporary figures, in which the filmmaker invites us to reflect on what makes us, as humans, unique beings.
Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
Director
Sherman's March65%
The Class of ‘9271%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
McQueen74%
180° South72%
Dawg Fight65%
Holocausto Brasileiro80%
Ronaldo69%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Public Speaking70%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Directed by John Ford70%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Diego Maradona74%
Love, Antosha74%
The U.S. vs. John Lennon67%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
