Offline
After a presidential decree that shuts off the Internet connection nationwide, two neighbours who have never spoken in real life but have a worship relationship online - one selling self pornography and the other consuming - meet and leave the big city for a day to live offline.
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Lui AvallosDirector
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Lui AvallosWriter
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Rodrigo MoreiraProducer
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Lui AvallosKey Cast"Lucas"
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Julio OliveiraKey Cast"Thiago"Gamebros (Netflix), HARD (HBO)
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Project Title (Original Language):Desconexo
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Project Type:Short
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Genres:Drama, LGBTQ, memory
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Runtime:30 minutes
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Completion Date:August 20, 2020
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Production Budget:2,000 USD
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Country of Origin:Brazil
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Country of Filming:Brazil
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Language:Portuguese
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:1:85
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Outfest Los AngelesLos Angeles
United States
August 26, 2020
Official Selection -
Chéries-Chéris ParisParis
France
November 18, 2020
Official Selection -
Mix BrasilSão Paulo
Brazil
November 11, 2020
South American Premiere
Official Selection -
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine LatinoamericanoHavana
Cuba
December 13, 2020
Official Selection
Director & Actor born and raised in Brazil. Graduated at UFSCar - Brazil, was an exchange student at Saxion University - Holland, and is currently getting a Master's Degree at Universidade de Lisboa. His past work, a screendance named "Além de nós", have been awarded and part of festivals in 6 countries.
Offline raises questions about how the desires, subjectivity and self-perception of contemporary society are submissive to image creation. As a young man born in the 90s, I feel that my generation lived consequences of a transition to a hyperconnected world. When I came across some archival images from my childhood, I’ve noticed a distance when it comes to the authenticity of those unstaged and not spectacularized images. In this sense, I wanted to create a film that would bring up reflections about identity, memory, post-truth and use my own archival images to build a self-fictional narrative that would help to propose possible solutions to the anxieties I felt, and other young people must feel as well.