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Theatre students André and Gabriel drum up support for resistance against the dismantling of culture policies in Brazil.

Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.

Cecilia is a therapist who runs a support group for cancer patients. Her rules: listen, don't judge, don't get involved. Everything changes when Juan and Lucía, two strangers with terminal diagnoses, fall in love in her group.

Raul and Saul work at the same office. Raul, outgoing and good-natured, comes from a broken marriage. Saul is shy, with a critical and bitter disposition, is recovering from a failed suicide attempt. In spite of their differences, they become quite good friends. But their colleagues begin to wonder whether there's something beyond friendship between them.

Luizinho is a young man passionate about Flamengo, fortunate enough to have his education paid for by the club, and plays in the team's lower divisions. A pupil of Rubens, the two compete for a spot on the professional team. Until Rubens introduces his friend to the woman he's in love with, Maria Helena. The problem is that she was Luizinho's childhood sweetheart, and the encounter rekindles their passion. A conflict begins between the two players that will be decided on the field.

To find the woman of his life, man makes a game up: he enters a subway train wagon, picks a woman he likes and waits to see whether she's going to take the same course and connections as he. If she is, he tries to make contact.

Maybe that's what they like, a little bit of melodrama.

During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring.

The story of one of Brazilian cinema's pioneers, Eduardo Abelim, from the start of his career, in Rio de Janeiro, until his filming of the 1930 Revolution. To promote his films, Abelim would even perform car stunts, give classes on the occult and offer guidance on mystical matters.

On mythical Augusta Street, in San Paulo (Brazil), a journalist who seeks answers for his angst dives into the world of prostitution and neo-Shamanism rituals.

The growing desire between Sandro and Maicon.

In the capital of southern Brazil in the 1890s, a beautiful and mysterious couple gained notoriety, both for the achievements of the husband, Dr. Gustavo Ramos, and for the morbid personality of his wife, Katalina Paulsen. When fear strikes, terrible secrets are revealed.

Watch “still here.”, a VHS story by filmmaker Marcos Gale about Rocco (Christyan McGray), a boy who walks between silence and memory, traversing loneliness, bullying, and introspection while reflecting on mental health and the simple — yet complex — act of remaining.

In the middle of boxes and souvenirs, Maria finds an old video camera. By revisiting the recordings she made with Ana, he revives memories of affection, complicity and absence: fragments of a time that insists on remaining.

In a distant province, Prana is chosen to marry Ozu, leader of her village. When young Kalki arrives at the place, they fall in love, but Ozu won't let this love being consummated.

Eduardo has a mysterious disease in his body. The appearance of crabs everywhere in the tropical city of Recife may have something to do with it.

The path of Paraguayan immigrants who drive to Asuncion and then arrive in São Paulo. They are rural workers, musicians, vendors and underemployed people. Two parallel worlds: the Guarani culture and the Brazilian adventure in São Paulo juxtaposed with Paraguayan songs and the Guarani language, spoken by the main characters.

Horacio, an old smuggler hiding from the law, lives in a surreal, baroque apartment with Petulia, his daughter, and Milton, his favorite thug. While he keeps his daughter locked up in her bedroom, Horácio flirts with his goon, for whom he has had repressed feelings for years. However, Milton's love for a mysterious woman, and Petula's attempts to free herself with the help of a former lover, clash with Horacio's tyrannical whims.

About the life and adventures of a gang of abandoned street kids known as "Capitães da Areia" (Captains of the Sands), in Salvador, Bahia, during the 1950s.

Julia is a successful journalist who lives in a comfortable apartment in São Paulo with her husband, a surgeon, and their young son. At first glance, her life seems perfect—but she hides a secret: a compulsion for risky sex. When her husband suggests the family move to a smaller city, Julia sees the move as a chance to leave behind her self-destructive behavior and become the wife and mother she always wanted to be. However, as the moving date approaches, her compulsion intensifies, threatening to expose her secrets and jeopardize her family and emotional stability.

The border between Brazil and Paraguay: living on opposite sides of a big river, Brazilian boy Joca falls in love with indigenous-Paraguayan girl Basano. A magical tale of impossible love and adventure in this land full of memories of colonial wars and indigenous genocide.

At the end of the 19th century, an influential man diplomatically defended the city of Curitiba against the action of revolutionaries in the south of Brazil to depose the country's president.

In an abandoned farm, young Tatu is tricked by three older kids into believing that if he overcomes certain challenges he will become a MAPUTO, a supernatural being. Tatu remains resolute in his pursuit even as the tasks become increasingly dangerous.

Roberto Ronan is a musician and piano teacher who receives the news that his father is sick. He returns to his hometown and spends some time in the house where he grew up. There the conflict that Roberto has with his younger brother, Henrique, grows at the same time as revelations about his family history are exposed.

Devising a fantastic universe, in which ancient make-up and costumes share the screen with contemporary elements such as limousines, helicopters and mobile phones, 'Philosophy in the Boudoir' intends to blur the borders of realism and make the spectator get closer to timeless issues. The boudoir inside an industrial plant brings an aggressive aesthetics to the teachings and orgies. The takes are developed in different ways. The franzy of orgies has a fast editing, whilst philosophical moments are long sequence shots. By bringing to the contemporary world a 200-year-old romance, we intend to trigger questions about the real moral changes in Western society. It is also interesting to highlight Sade's feminism. His female heroes are independent women, masters of their own sexual drive. At last, due to the solid theatrical background of the artists, the film was inevitably contaminated by unusual procedures, contributing to new possibilities of exchange between arts.

Ura Hee's sexually charged Emmanuelle in Rio tells the tale of an world-famous fashion photographer who is constantly dealing with the romantic advances of a music-video director. Their passions erupt in the exotic city of Rio de Janeiro

In Nordestina, a small town lost in the Brazilian badlands, young Karina dreams of becoming an actress and leaving to explore the world. Before losing his love, Dona Nazaré’s son, Antônio, takes the first step in a kamikaze crusade to bring the world to Karina. For that, Antônio leaves town and announces, in a TV show that he will set off on a sensational adventure: a trip into the future, starting from Nordestina’s square. A story where dreams contradict reality, geographical and political conditions threaten to block life, and love plays the part of the transforming element.

Five stories by Brazilian writer Guimarães Rosa: in the hinterland of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a man fears for his life after having killed one of the dire Brothers Dagobé, outlaws who have great influence over the region; a hitman asks a doctor what's the meaning of a name he has heard; in a farm, the landowner decides to share the use and property of the estate among his employees; a man falls in love with a girl, but she's said to have a dreadful disease; and the local butcher spends half of his time running after his mother and daughter, both utterly mad.

As a young archivist labours on the reassembly of a long-lost film print, her emotional life spirals into a tumultuous state that is mirrored in the degradation of the frames she so painstakingly works upon.

On a construction site in São Paulo, Leonardo, a young worker, starts to hear a strange sound coming from the ground.

The desire for freedom still resonates in Margarida and the idea of being stuck in a daily routine leaves her suffocated.

In Recife, Dr. Paulo is an important lawyer that has a daughter, Heloísa, with his paramour and living in the country. A few days before traveling to Europe, Dr. Paulo asks to a close friend to bring Heloísa to Recife. Meanwhile, his bohemian and irresponsible son Helvécio meets Heloísa, and without knowing that she is his sister, he tries to rape her, and she kills him. Heloísa is arrested and goes to trial without any evidence to prove that she self-defended her honor.

Intrigues and mystery involve the murder of Vitor, a member of an important family, just when he was trying to save his economic empire from bankruptcy. In court, a beautiful woman becomes the center of the entire plot.

Jean feels trapped in the logic of longevity that the pharmaceutical industry imposes on him and decides to plan a conscious suicide. He invites Helena to commit suicide to two. She, on the other hand, hesitates, knows that she will live well even if she needs to live alone, but she helps him in his intentions. The silence between them does not reveal distance, but intimacy. These are years of shared affection. Together, they will prepare all the details for the funeral. He dances death while she continues rehearsing life. In the process, the two realize that before the end, there is still a lifetime.

Virginia’s death during her 17th birthday shakes up a luxurious building complex. For most residents, it’s a passing tragedy. For her mother and her friends, it is the beginning of a transformation: the crack in their drywall cocoon.

Interned in a psychiatric hospital, Miguel is pursued by voices from his past. During treatment, he relies on the friendship of a resident doctor to find a way out of it.

Adelaide and Virgínia met in 1937, a year after the German arrived in Brazil, fleeing the Nazi persecution of the Jews, where she came with her husband and two daughters. Together, they founded and popularized psychoanalysis in Brazil, breaking down barriers and prejudices. They were doctor and patient for 5 years, colleagues for more than 30 years, great friends their entire lives.

Chico ventures himself into changing his life, regardless of the risks. In order to reach this objective he must rely not only on his courage but, above all, on Tereza.

Laura is a young woman who works as a self-employed social media strategist. She has never been in a serious relationship and values her privacy very much. After meeting Sabrina she believes they’ll have just another casual date at her apartment, but Sabrina is the type of person who gets attached easily. She becomes obsessed with Laura, insisting on a relationship.

Liz’s life now started facing changes every day, because of that, anxiety began striking her all the time, and one should never deal with this alone.

Young Ênio is having to deal with a lot at home. His family is falling apart, whilst his sister's friends bully him at school. Over the course of one fateful night Ênio goes on an adventure, in a tour-de-force debut about growing up.

Her mother’s distance, her father’s absence, and the traumas provoked by her stepfather form an ocean inside the girl Muriel, who is afraid of swimming. The animation, directed by Carol Sakura and Walkir Fernandes, poetically approaches through verbal and visual metaphors the experience of plunging into one's own pains so as to finally emerge.

Blurring borders between documentary and fiction, this film portrays a few moments from the lives of three people from Belo Horizonte: a transsexual prostitute and academic, a Hare Krishna soccer fan and a would-be writer.

Two friends discuss their love adventures, and the emptiness ensuing each new conquest.

A sophisticated couple opens their marriage to new erotic adventures.

After theirs father's death, Carl and Ana decide to go to Germany to rescue his unknown story. There, not only will they discover familiar tracks, they will confront and recognize themselves, to move forward in their lives.

Anna tells her girlfriend about the time she tried to read The Magic Mountain.

Cosmopolitan and provincial, Curitiba can be a good synthesis of conflicts. Through the stories of four characters who don't know each other but whose fates are intertwined—a car dealer, a motorcycle courier, a bus driver, and a paper collector—the film chronicles the daily struggle for survival.

The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking techniques to create a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities - with the promise of escape stereotypical representations.