Only Good Things: Frameline 2025 Completion Fund Spotlight

Only Good Things (Apenas Coisas Boas)
Directed by Daniel Nolasco · Brazil 🇧🇷 · 104 mins

Catalão, Brazil, 1984. The rural region of Batalha dos Neves is made up of large crop pastures, a few farms and divided in half by the São Marcos River. Antônio lives alone and isolated taking care of his small farm until the day he encounters Marcelo, a lonely motorcyclist who suffers an accident crossing the region. Antônio takes care of Marcelo’s wounds. The two fall in love and live a story that transforms, destabilizes and causes ruptures in each of them. Following Mr. Leather (Frameline43) and Dry Wind (Frameline44), Only Good Things is writer/director Daniel Nolasco’s second fiction feature film. It stars Lucas Drummond (Follow the Protocol, Frameline46), Fernando Libonati (producer of From Beginning to End, Frameline34), Guilherme Théo, Liev Carlos, and Renata Carvalho (HBO Max’s Joint Venture).

History has always been denied to queer people, who constantly need to be archaeologists of their own past. In recent years, Brazil has gone through a period of destruction of the mechanisms of cultural production, which made it even more difficult to produce films by and about queer people. This fact contributes to the impossibility of memory. Without memory, without a past, we cannot look at our present and build our future. Currently in Brazil, it is only possible to produce our films with the help of partners, institutions, and programs that encourage queer professionals to bring their stories to life. Thus, the support of the Frameline Completion Fund is essential for a film like Only Good Things to reach the cinema screens.

Daniel Nolasco (he/him) was born in the city of Catalão, in the interior of Goiás, Brazil. He has a bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) and in History from the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG). He has written and directed more than ten short films, shown, and awarded at several national and international festivals, such as Pedro Had a Horse (2023); Mr. Fox (2019); Neptune, (2018); Tatame (2016), among others. Dry Wind (2020), his first fiction feature film, made its debut at the Panorama Section at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.