Sheffield DocFest 2025

DocFest Online: Shorts - Dreaming Trees

Expired June 26, 2023 11:00 PM
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Flowers give birth to dreams. A rock dreams of a man. Trees hold us as we grieve. And a community establishes new roots. These four films take us far beyond the individualistic human-centred view of the world.

With a cast of one hundred people making the street their home, a temporary community transforms a public square into a great stage.


Weaving documentary and radical theatre techniques, Brazilian artist and filmmaker Jonathas de Andrade brings together a cast of 100 people to reclaim a public square. Inspired by the techniques of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, this temporary community, made up of vulnerable and unhoused people in the city of Recife, Brazil, improvises a series of actions that transform both the space, the viewer and the community itself. From a kitchen to a dressing room, a parliament to a stage, the public square once again becomes a site of community, ideas and resistance.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    25 minutes
  • Language
    Portuguese
  • Country
    Brazil, Italy
  • Premiere
    World premiere
  • Director
    Jonathas de Andrade
  • Producer
    Leonardo Bigazzi
  • Cinematographer
    Gustavo Pessoa
  • Editor
    Fabio da Costa, Gustavo Campos
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