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A very old lady waits for her son to arrive so that she can get out of sight.
Aurora
Documentary about the reminiscence of Balzac's works, spiritually and scientifically the documentary shows the strenght of this important work of French literature through the years.
Balzac's Last Novel
A photographer is looking for audacious bodies for her work… And finds an unexpected model. To the beat of Noporn, this short film tells of the power of their encounter.
From Time to Time, I Burn
A tale of love and death in a world where the state of exception has become the rule and the last days of humanity never end.
Os Sonâmbulos
Numa Só Nota
This allegorical docufiction provides the viewer with a lightly meditative and at the same time modern impression of the Christian holiday while paying witness to the transformation of the sacral space and the holiday's religious message. The film's anonymous protagonists from opposite sides of the world discuss the paths of their faith in this visually stylized and stylistically edited film.
Winter Miracle
Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro’s fiercely authoritarian and militarized government, Chitara’s women claim the streets for themselves as a declaration of radical political resistance on behalf of ex-cons and the oppressed.
Dry Ground Burning
Two young black friends from the same hood thrive a future as artists, but everything changes when the COVID-19 pandemic becomes a global issue and art can no longer be the main source of their income. Even thought, each in their own way, they strugle to continue with their artistic goals, besides the government and the circumstances conspiring against their ambitions.
...Lombrado
Brazil, the first week of 2019. A new president takes office in a scenario of fanaticism, prejudice, and violence. Locked in a hotel room, two teenagers decide to change the course of their lives, before it’s too late.
Before It's Too Late
Rio de Janeiro, April 18, 1945. Brazil's foreign policy aligns closely with that of the United States and opens a brief period of democratic rule after the end of World War 2. For years, hundreds of people were arrested and tortured by the Vargas regime. But with the external pressure, several political prisoners gain freedom.
Peacetime
Cássia goes to sleep to the sounds of her alcoholic father and wakes up with the crow of her rooster bred for cockfighting. Her routine obeys a disciplined logic of restlessness and hard work. Between driving her father's taxi and tending their rooster, she is on the verge of breaking out to find a life of her own.
Rinha
Tonho Tiê really likes living free, playing capoeira and drinking. During Carnival he meets beautiful Zulmira; they pledge love and projects for many children. But time passes and Tonho returns to being the womanizer he had always been. Zulmira, daughter of Iansã, cannot stand Tonho's brazenness, and asks her saint-mother to wash her honor with blood.
The Force of Xango
Umbilina e Sua Grande Rival
Paulo lives a troubled relationship with his wife Jessica. After a serious argument, he goes cycling and ends up getting lost in a region known as "The Whispering Forest", a secret place where men meet for sexual purposes with another men. Unhappy in his marriage, Paulo has no idea how much his life is about to change, especially when he meets Luigi, a young boy who exudes sex and freedom and that he will make him discover his true sexuality. It will be an explosive encounter that will force him to accept himself as a gay man.
Behind the Trees
A claustrophobic situation where you have to choose the right words to be free.
Free
The tensions experienced by three different people during the military dictatorship in Brazil: a politician, a revolutionary and a common citizen.
BLABLABLÁ
Three people get together to read the play that one of them wrote; a play that recounts the love that these three experienced in the past. But perhaps not everything is as it is written there, perhaps not everything - or almost nothing - was like that.
História de amor (últimos capítulos)
Luís celebrates his golden wedding anniversary with his wife Alice. After the party, when the couple recalls some of the moments they built, he reveals a secret: he had a great passion in the past.
Idolatrada
Focusing on the real-imaginary doubt, the film delves into the role of the stage actor alongside the set-up of Sam Shepard's 'Mente Mentira'.
Mentiras Sinceras
After the contact of a spirit from the forest, Pietro returns to Manaus to save her. He must prevent the city from being destroyed by a Big Snake that sleeps in the region's underground.
De Costas Pro Rio
Recently arrived from Recife, bachelor Paulo goes to a party in Rio de Janeiro and there he meets Lucíola, with whom he falls in love. Despite his friend Sá having announced that Lucíola is a prostitute, Paulo begins to experience great love with her, but cannot avoid being jealous.
Lucíola - O Anjo Pecador
While out with his friends for fun one night in São Paulo, Leandro is confronted with glimpses of his own violence. The film is loosely inspired by the homophobic attack that occurred in the Paulista Avenue area, in which teenagers used fluorescent lamps as a weapon.
Laio
End of Times. Father and daughter seek a place in the shade to rest.
Purple
O Baú
The daily life of Vanessa, Marília and their three children has a tight schedule of obligations and appointments. The two mothers must divide their tasks. A picnic with friends help to recover energy. Meanwhile, the family is forced to confront external threats. Their civil rights are endangered.
For the Family
Girassol
Ana Laura is a 40 year-old, good looking and well-informed TV News Anchor who's also a cocaine addict. Facing her career decline as the channel she works in starts to give more space to younger professionals, she faces a night of unusual events as she dives further into drug abuse.
Carreiras
To protect herself from a revolt by the workers on her family's farm, a reclusive designer locks herself in her armored car. The clock is ticking and the tension rises. Separated by an impenetrable layer of glass, two universes are about to collide.
Property
In a small Brazilian town, a teenage girl works everyday in a eucalyptus forest where she chases ants away with pesticides. Yet, her inner struggle turns out to be the real fight.
Ant Killers
Prostitute is impregnated by a wealthy businessman. Identical twins are born: Márcio created by the father and the mother another. The latter becomes a marginal, while the first, with the death of his father, inherits fortune incalculable. Upon learning of fortune inherited by his brother, the marginal killer, and takes its place in business. Everything goes well until an employee discovers the drama.
The Son of the Prostitute
This is the story of Vicente, a successful, married, economist with a nine-year-old son. It also tells the story of Antônio, the same man, living as a hugadores—one of the homeless, trash scavengers who live and work in Brazil’s enormous garbage dumps. Vicente seems to have it all, but as we watch his life begins to crumble little by little. Meanwhile, Antônio, already at rock bottom, struggles to rebuild his life.
Between Valleys
Nadia is a Haitian biologist living in Cuba, researching local wildlife. Until she receives a visit from deep waters, and the Cuban forest begins to speak in other languages. On that day, Haiti never seemed so far from Nadia.
Anba Dlo
A journey through the deeds of Paul of Tarsus (Alexandre Galves), one of the main propagators of Christianity.
Paulo de Tarso e A História do Cristianismo Primitivo
Nunca me Viram Gritar
Three lives linked by a tragic fate try to find a way out of despair.
Bitter Days
Nicolas notices that his eleven year old son Xavier spends his time not only playing drums, but also paying attention to a certain type of boys.
Xavier
A delivery man dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.
Neon Phantom
The shooting of “Rio e Luar” is about to begin. What the crew doesn't know is that Max, the film's director, is in a secret relationship with Hugo, his photography trainee. The situation becomes even more complicated when Hugo decides that it's time to tell the world how they feel about each other, even if it jeopardizes their careers in the prejudiced film industry of the 60's.
Rio e Luar
Pedro is a teenager who sells drinks in the traffic on a highway that brings thousands of people to the coast during the summer. Driven by curiosity and desire, he embarks on an adventure that transforms him profoundly.
Jacaré
Arthur is a man who got used to living in a small town, and who left his dreams behind to take care of his alcoholic mother and his brother. But the return of his childhood love to the city brings him new hopes. At which point the young man will find strength in faith in God.
Um Lugar Para Ser Feliz
A editora da parte de livros do Los Angeles Chronicle, Rose Lloyd (Christine Lahti), crê que tem uma vida perfeita. Ela tem um bom emprego, está casada há 25 anos e seus filhos estão crescidos. Porém isto começa a desmoronar quando seu marido, Nathan Lloyd (Brian Kerwin), que também é editor no mesmo jornal, comunica que está deixando de viver com ela para morar com uma jovem mulher, por quem está apaixonado e com quem está tendo um caso há um ano. Acontece que esta bela jovem não é uma pessoa qualquer e sim a assistente dela, Mindy (Abby Brammell). Rose vai até seu chefe para exigir que Mindy seja mandada embora, mas descobre que é ela que será demitida e que Mindy ficará no seu lugar.
Não é Tarde Para Recomeçar
Diogo is a cartographer and artist who is encharged to set the new frontiers of Portuguese Colonies in South America. When he reaches the center of the continent, finds apparently nothing but wilderness and ‘uncivilized’ natives with strange ways of living. But Captain Pedro, the rude scout who guides him through the jungle, involves Diogo in an involuntary act of violence which will tie him in an unusual way to that far away country. At the same time, the Portuguese colonists are trying to make peace with Guaicuru Indians (one of the few natives with horse-riding abilities). But peace doesn’t ever have a low price.
Brave New Land
European couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement with a local man, whom they hire as an employee, will change their plans.
República da Traição
A desperate mind can cling to many things in a tormented effort to compensate for emotional voids. They try to fill them with work, food, passions, alcohol, nicotine. In this way, an addiction is capable of shaking the most promising career and the kindest person. Betty is a young woman with many dreams, but her trajectory is put to the test as her mind begins to revolve around what is inside bottles. For her, it's what would fill the void in her heart, supposedly.
Suposto Fim
Vera is a religious woman who takes care of a vessel in the port of Manaus. She needs to deal with Sister Josi with whom she disagrees about how to handle the boat and how to live life.
The Boat and the River
A father receives a devastating call: his son was found dead. This tragic news makes him travel in order to identify and release his son’s body for burial, a journey that will force him to recognize his absence as father and find a way to reconnect with the memories of his own child.
A Song for Silence
In a black community on the outskirts of Recife, female solidarity ensures the celebration of Jade Nicole’s 8th birthday, even while her mother is away at work. The community, located on a flight path, hears the sound of airplanes as the children imagine wars from old movies. The adults join forces to survive their daily battles.
Trincheiras
Rafael wakes up in an abandoned hospital, blind and covered in bandages. Agonizing, he sets for a terrifying journey in the dark. Sofia, a doctor, follows him. Distressing images of recent events emerge from Rafael's memory, revealing his connection to Caio, Sofia's son.
As Órbitas
As Memórias de Hugo
Te Vejo Amanhã?
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.
Instante
At the beginning of the 20th century, in the interior of the municipality of Imaruí, in the state of Santa Catarina, a Christian soul was born that persists in believing in human goodness, despite the iniquities of this world. She is Albertina, the daughter of colonists of Catholic German descent. Even at an early age, she finds serenity and spiritual comfort in faith. His life is a response and undeniable proposal to the misfortunes and challenges of society at all times. His charisma and testimony attract the best in human beings, but also the worst that can be.
Albertina
Kaí is a mysterious shaman who emerges from the Rio Paraná to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of cold-blooded mercenaries hired to force them to sell their land.
The Ardor
Mauro is the proud owner of a "Video 80", a video rental shop that used to be a big hit in the 80's, now empty and forgotten. On what would be the store's last day, someone finally appears - but it is not exactly what Mauro expected.
Video 80
An artist penetrates him/herself with a cob of transgenic corn in the middle of a field, unawares that death is near. His/her sister Ana, who has been following him/her with his/her ashes, embarks on a journey into the Amazon forest that will become a quest as spiritual as it is erotic.
The Whisper of the Jaguar
Iolanda, a widow who is the matriarch of a large and complicated family, is the hostess of a large party in a mansion that brings back many memories. The celebration is marked by a barbecue with lots of gossip and fun among old friends.
Sonhos de Menina Moça
After some time distant, Marcela goes to her parents’ house to tell them she’s gonna marry her girlfriend, Bianca.
Welcome Back
João and his family set out on a day trip to Niterói, looking for a moment of peace. However, as the car moves along the road, a suffocating atmosphere begins to take hold. Through João’s eyes, the everyday encounters and microaggressions of racism start to manifest as supernatural haunts. In this chilling tale of childhood horror, the young boy's journey is shaped by invisible scars and a reality that bends under the weight of systemic violence. Where the road ends, the nightmare begins.
The Way
She menage to save from a fire a bunch of pictures and a diary written by hand. Those words and faces becomes the last traces left from the man she one day knew and loved. Crossing mountains and roads, she tries to remake his steps. The places she vists bring people, gestures, memories and histories that slowly become part of her life.