Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental and Art and Cinema
UNLEARNING HOW TO SLEEP
Unlearning How to Sleep
Gustavo Vinegar
Brazil
2021
Film
Feature Film
Flavio loses his sexual appetite by editing porn videos. José, his husband, is trying to create an equation that will determine when humans will colonize Mars. Flavio is focused on a more internal journey, and José is trying to find ways to bring Flavio's desire back. Meanwhile, Hypnos, god of sleep and YouTuber, is trying to give people back the art of rest.
general information
edition
venues
duration in min
95
date and time
premiere
World Premiere 5th ECRÃ Festival
indicative classification
18
conversation/chat
tags
editing, porn, sci-fi
trailer/teaser/excerpt
Gustavo Vinegar
Gustavo Vinagre graduated in Literature from USP. He has a degree in screenwriting from the International School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Some of the films he has directed include Film for the Blind Poet (2012), The Call (2014), New Dubai (2014), The Care One Takes for the Care Others Should Take for Themselves (2016) and Catastrophe Film (2017), I Remember More About the Crows (2018), The Blue Rose of Novalis (2019) and Vil,má (2020). He is currently finishing the feature documentary "God Has AIDS" co-directed with Fábio Leal, and is preparing to film the feature fiction film "Three Sad Tigers".
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