Violence, in films, is often generated by an 'immunizing' logic, which according to Roberto Esposito, is typical of contemporary societies. Esposito says that the immunizing logic can be seen in State institution, laws, territorial organization or ethnic communities identified by a common element (language, religion, culture).

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A literatura de Cassandra Rios, cuja posição no cânone da produção brasileira é marginal, pode ser compreendida como um campo de batalha de forças que tanto constroem como fazem ruir a ideia de um ser lésbica como algo estável. Se, por um lado, há uma tentativa de legitimar esse modo de vida, por outro, uma escrita mais sutil, subterrânea e errática, desestabiliza essa legitimidade em nome de uma fluidez subjetiva que posterga a definição de uma identidade, ao trazer à tona uma série de transformações, linguísticas e diegéticas que propõem múltiplas formas de existência.

Abstract. The restricted vocabulary that is often applied to discuss Contemporary Brazilian Cinema (aesthetics of hunger, marginality, national allegory, identity, bad consciousness) reveals a sort of generalizing approach that ignores the lms' singularities and overlooks diverse af liations. Works by young Brazilian lmmakers such as Irmãos Pretti, Eduardo Valente, Rodrigo Siqueira, and Sérgio Borges are a real challenge for the critic inasmuch as they escape this vocabulary and propose other questions. The lms made by this young generation bypass traditional themes like urban violence and historical revisionism, thus demanding we rethink the political potency of Brazilian Cinema. Moreover, these lms are not concerned with images of Brazil, pointing out to a post-identity politics that go beyond narratives of nation, class, or gender. This proposal aims at discussing this Brand New Brazilian Cinema (Novísssimo Cinema Brasileiro) and its affective realism. No longer a referent for a sociological truth about Brazilian society, realism is taken as something that the image does, i.e., as an affect that challenges the viewer's response-ability. This paper discusses two lms (No meu lugar [Eye of the Storm, Eduardo Valente, 2009] and O céu sobre os ombros [The Sky Above, Sérgio Borges, 2010]) in order to assess the political relevance of the notion of realism, in its relationship with affect.

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