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Directed by Carlos Eduardo Nogueira

No gasoline. No Internet. No telephone. Not even technological advances can withstand the aridity of the desert in this 3D animation. Lost in an inhospitable conceptual region, a cybernetic heroine attempts to free herself from her own technological constraints and escape the trap created by a world conceived for self-sufficiency. The filmmaker opted for intensely vivid primary colours, heightening the protagonist’s sense of desolation. The folk-inspired soundtrack immediately evokes American road movies.