O Beijo do Escorpião

Our country ate it all up for too many years. Whores. Eaters. Filth. Where will we go next? It's time to choose, or this may well be the end.

On a desperately hot day in July 2020, the lone remaining employee at a Seoul art house cinema struggles to prepare for the premiere of an indie film amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Moments before turning 90 years of age, Alberto remembers his life, lived in Copacabana, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is a comedy about old age nowadays, with Copacabana as a background.

Antonio and Vicenta have just married and are ready to start their life together with an unforgettable honeymoon trip, but it is only possible for them to go to Pamplona during the Sanfermines. They expected to spend a few romantic and lonely days, but they find a city crowded with strangers and they can't even find a place to stay for the night. Finally, the owner of a pension prepares a bed for them in the lobby, but they will have to wait for all the guests to return to lie down.

The Nobel Medal of great Indian Poet Rabindra Nath Tagore was stolen in 2004 and it was never found. This film is a fictional account of what might have happened to the medal. A poor farmer accidentally finds the medal lying outside his house. He embarks on a journey to return back the medal to the government but is later dragged in to selling it with the help of his friend in Kolkatta city. What he learns about great Tagore and how do people of today take his philosophy is what this film is all about. In his journey he encounters different people with different takes on Tagore. What happens to him in the end is also highly unexpected.

A youngster hailing from a middle-class family must face off against overwhelming odds to succeed in life.