At the time of his full retrospective in Paris, and "following the migration of monarch butterflies that run away from the cold weather of North America," João Pedro Rodrigues answers the question made by the Centre George Pompidou, "Where are you now, João Pedro Rodrigues?", through a poetic, introspective, metamorphosing self-portrait, which at the same time summons the memory of his life trajectory - which is intertwined with his existence as an author – and meditates on his identity, his recurrent desires and themes of loss and discovery, from carnality to transcendence, through adaptations of texts by David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne. João Pedro Rodrigues is one of the most important authors in Portuguese cinema of the 21st century and one of the most represented directors in the history of Curtas, which has exhibited more than a dozen of his works, in the film theater or at the Solar Gallery, solo or in collaboration with João Rui Guerra da Mata, as a director, as an actor, as a member of the international jury of the festival in 2005, and even as programmer, in 2016, of a carte blanche - along with João Rui Guerra da Mata - of short film classics, simultaneously with the exhibition "Do Rio das Pérolas ao Ave", created by both of them at the Solar Gallery. The Portuguese competition included "Parabéns!", (1998) (now also part of 25th anniversary’s Carte Blanche), "Manhã de Santo António" (Vila do Conde Short Film Nominee For The European Film Awards, in 2012) and "O Corpo de Afonso", in 2013. That same year Curtas produced in the context of the Estaleiro, his film "Mahjong", in collaboration with João Rui Guerra da Mata, and in 2016 a DVD was released with all the short films of the duo. (SR)