Director João Gonzalez, who made his debut at Curtas Vila do Conde in 2017 in the Take One! competition (with the film “The Voyager”), and made his return in 2019 (with the film “Nestor”), has known, since 2022, a mediatic meteoric rise, with his film “Ice Merchants” picking up various Awards, starting in his debut at the Cannes Film Festival and all the way to the American Academy Oscars ceremony as one of the five nominees for Best Animated Short. Classically trained on the piano, the director frequently combines his musical ability with his auteur animation, taking up the role of composer, and occasionally the instrumentalist in his films. This session is a live performance by João Gonzalez, in which he will revisit, for the first time, “Ice Merchants”. In this session, his films “The Voyager” and “Nestor” will be accompanied by “Le ravissement de Frank N. Stein”, “Father and Daughter” and “Goodbye Jérôme!”, which will be presented with an alternative soundtrack composed and played live by the director.