Late on the Planet (Tarde no Planeta)

World premiere

A boy feels the shadow of an irreversible environmental catastrophe drawing near. In the quiet of his backyard, he chooses to spend the last day before the world transforms beyond recognition alongside his mother. A meditation on the weight we give to the idea of finitude and on our precarious relationship with the more-than-human world, inspired by the novel of the same name by Leonardo Piana.

director: Julia Tonon, poet: Leonardo Piana, Brazil, 2025, 5 min, in Portuguese with English subtitles

About the Artist

Julia Tonon is a Brazilian director known for building intimate, poetic worlds from the seemingly ordinary. Her work emerges from a careful gaze towards small gestures, quiet landscapes and subtle emotions – finding depth, mystery and beauty in what often goes unnoticed.

She has directed projects for Havaianas, Armani, Nubank, Soho House, Aragana, Zerezes, C&A, Monte Carlo Joias, amongst others. Her independent work includes the Alice trilogy, selected for Mostra Mulher de Cinema and awarded at the Cinematography and Photography Awards, and the short film Late on the Planet, released by NOWNESS, featured on Directors’ Library, winner of Best Film at the Hombres Videopoetry Award in Italy, and selected for festivals such as MitreoFilmFestival (Italy), Detour Low-Budget and Experimental Cinema (Portugal) and Short to the Point (Romania).