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"Pivot" starts sweet, with a beatiful, shining and simple design. But it's not your avarege cute animation: the protagonist soon reaches unsetling and surreal grounds, in a very elaborate scenario for such a short narrative.

The main crew is an all-female one. Such things was not suposed to be still remarkable, but we are still going after the gender equality in the industry (and going after all equalities, for that matter). But "Pivot" is not about being "just" important. It's about bring a powerfull message through beautiful animation.

The werewolf myth is about the innocent who is damned.

The myth's fascination stems precisely from the fact that the condition of becoming a furious monster can strike a person who has done nothing wrong.

What if this inherent innocence of the myth were taken to its ultimate consequences, and the curse affected a child?

That's the wonderful premise of one of the best werewolf films of all time "The Good Manners" (a Brazil-France coproduction, shot in São Paulo).

Attention: it is not your conventional jump scare movie (although it has a few chills here and there). The film mixes with wisdom and creativity different genres. It is a dark fairy tale in which horror, comedy, drama and even musical numbers blends altogether. Makes sense, since one of the main references are the Disney old animated feature films.

It's two stories in one. The first half has a Hitchcockian tradition: the filmmakers do not hide from the audience the true nature of what is happening, but the protagonists still do not know. So we are apprehensive, hoping for them to find out. The second half is totally unpredictable and the stakes are higher.

An absolute highlight is the musical score form brothers Guilherme and Gustavo Garbato, with chilling and beautiful lullabies.