Like Water Through Stone

In the Espinhaço Mountains one winter, a group of small-town Brazilian girls are coming to the end of their adolescence. Impossible romances link them with men from the outside, leaving marks on their bodies and the surrounding landscape. Among the parties, friendships, anxieties and contradictions of their passage into adulthood, each of the friends finds her own particular way to resist the changes and to live with the tangle of uncertainty.
With productions such as Cattle Callers (2005) and Acácio (2008), Marília Rocha (1978) can be counted among the best documentary makers in Brazil. Her moving Like Water Through Stone, a documentary in which the authentic, unsentimental characters seem to coincide with the raw beauty of the landscape, is a new high point in her oeuvre. Rocha is co-founder of the Brazilian film collective Teia.