AROUND THE #SUN
(80 min, Hybrid / Road-Movie)
#Fight-or-flight, they call. Begins in the amygdala, increases blood pressure, the production of glucose, there is a boost of energy, blood flow to muscles, heart output increases, the pupils dilate, sugar is released, palpitations, tachycardia, anxiety, tremor, knees shake, heart rate peaks, tunnel vision, loss of hearing. I feel a runner's high, I am under surveillance, I will open this #border.
On the day of his deportation, a young black, brazilian, queer, hacker races through Berlin. As he runs through the spring landscape, other cities and memories flash before him, revealing his journey as a migrant and offering an intimate portrait of a generation in transit, without borders.
Writen & Directed by Ygor Gama
Cinematography and Camera by Francisca Saez Agurto
Produced by Neue Reitz Filmproduktion - Berlin, Germany
and Espaço Líquido Audiovisual - São Paulo, Brazil
BEST FEATURE FILM IN DEVELOPMENT - AWARDS IN 2025/2026:
(80 min, Hybrid / Road-Movie)
#Fight-or-flight, they call. Begins in the amygdala, increases blood pressure, the production of glucose, there is a boost of energy, blood flow to muscles, heart output increases, the pupils dilate, sugar is released, palpitations, tachycardia, anxiety, tremor, knees shake, heart rate peaks, tunnel vision, loss of hearing. I feel a runner's high, I am under surveillance, I will open this #border.
On the day of his deportation, a young black, brazilian, queer, hacker races through Berlin. As he runs through the spring landscape, other cities and memories flash before him, revealing his journey as a migrant and offering an intimate portrait of a generation in transit, without borders.
Writen & Directed by Ygor Gama
Cinematography and Camera by Francisca Saez Agurto
Produced by Neue Reitz Filmproduktion - Berlin, Germany
and Espaço Líquido Audiovisual - São Paulo, Brazil
BEST FEATURE FILM IN DEVELOPMENT - AWARDS IN 2025/2026:
Creative Producer & Assistant Director
Lorena Pazzanese (Brazil)
(São Paulo, Brazil, 1989) holds a degree in Image and Sound Design from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been working in cultural and audiovisual production for over 10 years, collaborating with production companies, cultural centers, and as an independent artist. In film, she has experience as an assistant director on several award-winning Latin American short and feature films that have been recognized at major international festivals. As a filmmaker, she has contributed to the audiovisual work of artists such as Tadáskía, Diambe, Yhuri Cruz, Ellison, and Rafa BQueer. She recently released her first feature film as a producer, *Artéria: poesia em revista*, which premiered in 2025 in partnership with Canal Curta!
Director of Photography & Camera
Francisca Saez Agurto (Chile)
I was born and raised on the coast of Chile. I later moved to Argentina, where I studied Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires, continuing my training with the LAV Master’s program in Madrid. My approach to cinematography is rooted in experimentation and shaped by close cross-border collaborations.
I have worked with directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, Iran, and Germany, helping to create the visual language of films such as Las Demás (Rotterdam 2023), Shadowless: In Transit (CPH:DOX), Lo que se hereda (True/False) and Ceniza Negra / Land of Ashes (Cannes).
My recent projects include Nubes Artificiales, by Josefica Buschmann (16 mm, Chile), and A Natureza das Coisas Invisíveis, by Rafaela Camelo, which premiered at the 75th Berlinale. Currently living in Berlin, I am expanding my practice to include lighting design for the performing arts.
Writer & Director - Ygor Gama, Brazil
Ygor Gama (1988, Recife - Brazil) is an image and sound designer who graduated with honours from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina (2014). After 17 years working in Buenos Aires and Berlin, he moved back to Rio de Janeiro in 2023 and founded the production company Cinema do Futuro.
His first short film, el Leaving, was made on cell phones, premiered at BAFICI, and won the international award at Viña del Mar Film Festival, Chile 2012. Then he directed #YA, a hybrid film about civil disobedience during the Occupy Movement, which premiered at the 65. Berlinale, BFI London, FNC Montreal, Canal Arte, and around the world in 2015/16. Opening Film at Vienna Independent Shorts and Golden Horsemen Best International Sound at Filmfest Dresden.
He is alumni of Berlinale Talents in Germany and IDFA Doclab in the Netherlands (2016-2017). Since 2018, he has worked as a freelance curator in the selection committees of festivals such as the Berlinale in Germany, Vienna Independent Shorts in Austria, and Durban in South Africa. He was a jury member at the 36th Warsaw Film Festival and Short Waves in Poland, Fantoche Animation Festival in Switzerland and 65. Nordische Filmtage in Germany.
He was the video artist at Maqamat Dance Theatre in Beirut/Lyon, a leading voice of contemporary dance in the arab world (2018-20). And the editor of the brazilian/german feature doc Boalandia (47. Mostra de São Paulo, Dok.fest München) and the experimental short - I don't want to be Just a Memory (74. Berlinale, BFI London), both premiered in 2023. In 2025, he created a VR artwork in the sea of Rio de Janeiro - In the Search of a Miracle; commissioned by UNESCO, Museu do Amanhã and Boticário Foundation for the United Nations Decade of the Ocean.
Artist in Residency at Villa Waldberta (AIR Munich, 2022) and Museu do Amanhã (Rio de Janeiro, 2024), where he developed Save the Dance, a road-movie in digital landscapes. Funded by BKM - Ministry of Culture in Germany and SESC Pulsar in Brazil - Expanded Audiovisual Performance, the 3D animation short film is currently in post-production and set to world premiere in 2026.
His next film, Around the #Sun, received development awards from Sheffield Doc Fest (UK), FIDBA (Argentina), Bio Bio (Chile), FAM (Brazil), and Ventana Sur (Uruguay) in 2025/26.
Executive Producer -
Mathias Reitz Zausinger (Germany)
neue reitz filmproduktion
I work as a producer and multimedia artist between Berlin, Munich, and São Paulo. Since becoming a father, the center of my personal life has been in Neukölln, Berlin.
Having a familial connection to Chile, the history of South America has always been an important reference for my thinking, work, and interests. Before deciding to become a producer, I studied philosophy, cultural studies and Fine Arts in Munich, Lisbon, and Berlin and Fine Arts at the Academy in Munich. My main focus during my studies was the history of ideas in the early modern period. The research trips to Brazil during my studies and my engagement with local theory marked my personal shift toward the lusophone world and a growing interest in genuinely Brazilian thought.
Between 2019 and 2022, I lived in São Paulo, deepening my professional and personal networks in Brazil. In 2022, I conducted research and collaborated with Video nas Aldeias, an indigenous network of film- and video makers. My travels to indigenous territories in Pará and the Amazon, as well as to the quilombos in Maranhão, profoundly influenced me by witnessing the still-colonial present in the Global South.
I made my cinematic debut in 2024 with my film „Boalândia“, a feature-length documentary examining contemporary forms of cultural resistance in Brazil (World Premiere: São Paulo int. Film Festival 2024)
Since 2022 I hold a senior role as a producer and shareholder at neue reitz Filmproduktion GmbH. The company was founded in 1966 by my grandfather Edgar Reitz and is today based in Munich and Berlin. In our Munich-office we are running a in-house post-production studio, enabling us to ensure that all projects meet the highest cinematic standards.
Over the years, I have gained extensive experience in the logic and execution of major film productions, including September 5 (dir. Tim Fehlbaum) and Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting (dir. Edgar Reitz), among others. Today, reflecting my professional network, I am actively involved in co-productions with authors from Brazil, Chile, Taiwan, Morocco, and Germany.
Now responsible for this long-standing and well-established company, my goal is to revitalize the notion of auteur cinema, returning to the political roots of filmmaking. As a producer, I strive to realize projects that transcend borders, languages, and oceans, producing them within the existing network of funding institutions and industry interests while pushing the limits of bureaucratic restrictions.
Executive Producer -
Bruna Callegari (Brazil)
Espaço Líquido Audiovisual Ltda
Bruna Callegari (São Paulo - Brazil, 1983) holds a master's degree from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (USP), is a historian graduated also from USP and a journalist from PUC-SP. She has worked with audiovisual since 2005, acting as a producer, editor and screenwriter. She currently teaches and coordinates the documentary course at the Academia Internacional de Cinema (AIC) in São Paulo.
As the head of her production company Espaço Líquido Audiovisual, she also dedicates herself to directing, having made the short films “Visionica” (2013), “Retrato de Dora” (2014), “Farol Invisível” (2016) and “Deusa” (2017). The latter premiered at the 44th Gramado Festival, where it received the Kikito for Best Art Direction, and had its international premiere at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, in France.
As an editor, in 2021, she received the Best Editing Award at the 44th Guarnicê Film Festival for the documentary “Utopia, Distopia”, directed by Jorge Bodanzky. From the same director, she directed the series “Transamazônica: uma estrada para o passado” (6x60’, HBO), chosen as the best documentary series at the 2022 Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro.
As a producer, screenwriter and editor, she released the feature films “Poemaria” (2024, dir. Davi Kinski), which premiered at the 52nd Gramado Festival, and “As cores e amores de Lore’’ (2024, directed by Jorge Bodanzky), released at the 29th É Tudo Verdade Festival. Her first documentary feature as a director “Artéria: poesia em revista” premiered in 2025, in a partnership with Canal Curta!.