Based on segment “Vor dem Gesetz” from Franz Kafka book “Der Process”, a group of prisoners are tied by chains around a iron pillar. In front of the door is a guard, while one of the prisoners tries to persuade the guard to let him pass.

What if you suddenly discovered that life is brief?
Although it is a dogmatic truth, we all living it without really paying attention.
"Vita Brevis" joins us in four central and contemporary stories apparently unconnected, but eventually connected into a single message to the public.
Domestic violence, love, drug addiction and ambition are the main ingredients of this movie that aims to show a raw and visceral reality through the heart of four actors.

A comic web serie with nonsense sketches.

What is really a consequence of each one's reality?
Between the conscious and the unconscious, constructing and destroying, the loving and the hating, the human mind has the ability to transform the consequence of the acts when we think they are inconsequential.
"Between" is a metaphor. It is the lie between all truth, it is the magic of reality, the modesty in every truth, the mastery of naivety, the monotony of velocity.
This is the human being, for the best and the worst.
What really exists between extremes?

In a virtual world, they have changed the reality of each other.
A futile Youtuber and a shy nerd know each other from a phone call, and when they realize that they have a crush on people they can not have, they begin to help themselves online in the conquest of their passioned ones.
Opposites connect and the timid nerd Tiago, and the influential sexy Suzana, will become accomplices in the illusory world of the internet, when both try to recover from a broken heart.

"It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears."
Antoine de saint-exupery

This Short Film was made for the 48 Hour Film Project - Lisbon.
The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which we have to make a movie - write, shoot, and edit - in just 48 hours.