A Christmas Getaway

Third World is a homeless migrant man who takes us on a dreamlike journey through the city of São Paulo. Directed and performed by Renan Rovida, Stone Age is a spiral path through the ruins of the world of work. A musical and dreamlike movie. A poetic and fragmented fable, in which the Third World character, a worker, migrant and homeless person (who brings with him the physical comedy of the first cinema), walks and struggles through a brutal dream for survival. "Stone Age" is about Terceiro Mundo's spiral path through the ruins of memories and dreams, in a present that goes hand in hand with the past and the imagination, in the presentification of memories, with their few traces of a migrant life, when he was still part of the working world. His dream materializes in raw poetry, led by a chorus of women who push him like avenging furies in the moments when he needs it most. Third World unveils the fragments that keep the character alive with an underground and personal thread. His story is intertwined with that of the working class, from the coffee plantations to the decline of industrialization. What's more, by playing him myself, the layers of reading go beyond just a character, it's also the director himself embodying his own alter-ego and his wandering filmmaking. —Renan Rovida