Under the blinding sun Clara struggles to see her family and the reality that surrounds her.
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Under the blinding sun Clara struggles to see her family and the reality that surrounds her.
The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributes" in order to get power.
Follows the relationship between two couples: An unemployed professor, Fernando, sustained by his factory worker girlfriend Rita, and sexist and reactionary Luís Carlos and inexperient Lilita.
Years after a rough separation, a couple meets again and travel to a wild region of Brazil that was once the scenery of their passion. Slowly they find out both have changed and must ask themselves if love has resisted the passage of time.
Melvin, a teenager, returns to his past in an attempt to remember who he truly was after feeling he left himself behind. He confronts his teenage and childhood selves to reflect on the pains and changes of growing up, realizing that "growing up means losing and leaving behind versions of ourselves." A nostalgic and reflective journey about time, childhood, and accepting the constantly changing self.
After leaving prison in 1992, Edir Macedo goes through a series of trials: the inappropriate conduct of other bishops of the Church, the attack of politicians and Catholics, his mother's illness and the tragedy of the collapse of the roof of a Church in São Paulo .
The lonely Jeruza lives in a simple isolated house by the seaside with the siblings Cassandra and Ulisses and the family survives by selling handicrafts for a local store. Her husband, Santiago, is a sailor who has been missing for many years. When the stranger Roque arrives at Jeruza's house late afternoon, he tells her that Santiago was murdered in a bar fight. Jeruza lodges Roque to spend the night and they have a one night stand. He then seduces Cassandra, who loses her virginity with him and he convinces Ulisses to have an incestuous relationship with his sister. Jeruza realizes that Roque, who has a dreadful secret, is a destructive being that is threatening her family. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Caio and Jane had a long relationship but like all good things one day it all comes to an end. With many unsolved issues and some love still there between, they engage in long conversations through the night remembering their past and imagining certain scenarios.
In ancient Greece, a young princess faces the king's order that one of her brothers who fought in the war should not be buried. Antigone buries her brother and pays for it with her life. Antigone's act is sacred, it obeys the human law of caring for our dead. King Creon's act is a political act, a punishment. Who is right? Inspired by Sophocles' play.
The adventures of a young man who becomes a bandit due to circumstances beyond his control. He seeks revenge for the death of his father, a defenseless victim of a powerful landowner who terrorized farmers in rural Bahia in the early decades of the century.
One night, a Brazilian woman wakes up in a country exhausted from violent acts. Republic is a short film realized at home, in the beginning of 2020s quarantine, in the center of São Paulo, República neighborhood.
Vicki is in love with Ana, but she has an abusive boyfriend. With the help of her brothers, Vicki devises a scheme to separate Ana from Thiago, but things can turn out to be quite violent.
Fiction/documentary about great Brazilian singer Nelson Gonçalves, where interviews about him are mixed with dramatization of episodes in his life. The film tell us about Nelson's childhood, the time when he tried his luck as a professional boxer, his career as a radio singer in the 1950s, the decadence caused by his cocaine addiction and his comeback.
By swallowing a pill of reality, the Bird feels all the sorrow of the world, where paradise and the unknown become hell for those who carry with them daily pain and wake up without knowing if they are really alive or not.
A woman waits.
A frustrated actor struggles to succeed in the dark world of entertainment while being haunted by his own inner world.
Lica, a woman with sight problems, gets a job at a company that makes paper flowers. After the sudden death of her father, she has to look after her brother and sister. However, soon after the funeral, her stepmother kicks the children out and Lica decides to live temporarily in her dead grandmother's house.
Teenager student Luana leaves school in a rush and records a farewell video to her mother. What happened up to that point is then revealed, beginning at the day she met her classmate Emília.
A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her future in a fascinating game between memories and desires.
A 12 year old boy dreams of becoming a goalkeeper for the national Brazilian soccer team, but first he has to overcome his own fears to convince his team boys club and his father who is against competition.
The body is not merely matter but a continual and incessant materializing of possibilities.
Beth, Milena, and Carina are three college students who've shared some of Rio's most wild and legendary parties for the past few semesters. After living in New York for a year, Beth returns on New Year's Eve a changed girl, willing to mend her ways and grow up. Milena and Carina, however, are not happy about their friend's change - Keen on stopping Beth form becoming "respectable" at all costs, they show up at her house with dozens of friends to celebrate the New Year. Before dawn, secrets will be revealed, friendships will be tested, hearts will broken, and tears (and other bodily fluids) will be spilled. As the night unfolds, we also witness past events in a seedy nightclub, which changed the lives of those three girls forever.
On the morning of her birthday, Márcia wakes up and finds a hole in the floor of the living room of the old family home where she now lives alone. Desperate, she asks Hélio, her neighbor and former boyfriend, for help. He comes to her rescue, bringing with him memories and a snorkel. Márcia hides the hole with the sofa and tries to appear normal to Luís, her brother, who arrives on one of his rare visits. The two then find themselves grappling with the preparations for the party, while wandering through the past in an attempt to find answers and stop the rift that continues to erode between them.
Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their consumer desires. However, even faced with the trials of absolute uncertainty and lack of hope, Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane insist on loving, having fun and planning their future.
The young Beto lives among provocative conversations and exciting escapes. On a hot day, a talk about the future reveals more than expected.
Julia returns to her hometown and the neighbourhood she left years ago after being swindled. She’s here to sign a permit to authorize her daughter to move in with her father, but more than anything, she’s come back to recover money that she left there, and which would solve a lot of her problems. Returning to her past is nothing like she expected it to be.
Early morning. Another day starts in the life of a lonely Japanese elder lady.
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.
Musical drama that uses popular myths of Brazilian culture to narrate a story full of meetings and misunderstandings, betrayals and loves, crimes and punishments. Against the backdrop of the Pernambuco backlands – its people and its culture, the cordel, the bandits, the cinema and the circus – the film is a universal drama, laden with unique poetry, where reality and the dreamworld mingle.
America, a famous Brazilian actress, transforms her existential crisis into a show watched closely by her biggest fan.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Solange and Gustavo, mother and son, lose a family member to the virus. As they deal with grief and face this new reality, the relationship between the two shudders and wounds are reopened, leading them to question which of them was responsible for bringing the virus into their home.
São Paulo, late 30's. Alberto is an intellectual and professor who announces to his friend and pupil Polidoro he won a scholarship to study in Paris. In Paris Polidoro receives a letter in which Alberto announces that he married Helena. Polidoro returns to Brazil in 1945, when there was a strong political agitation against the New State. Alberto invites Polidoro to spend a few days at his home in Campos do Jordão. After reaching the site he is told by Helena that Alberto was forced to travel urgently. She insists he should stay there until the return of her husband and, while waiting, she seduces him. Then, after several days of intense passion, she orders Polidoro to go away and never see her again.
Heitor and Matilde are two siblings who decide to murder their rich father in order to quickly inherit his wealth. They get the killing done, aided by Matilde's boyfriend Henrique, but after a while the three of them begin to recieve mysterious notes which suggest that their secret is in danger.
Three stories about children and adolescents in Brazil and the various violations of their rights.
Years after the breakup, Ana and Théo meet again and Ana offers her ex-boyfriend a ride home. Along the way, they fill the silence by talking about the past and what could have been.
In a rural town, the relationship between teacher and student goes beyond the classroom and transforms their lives.
The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe.
Roberto is blind and tunes pianos, isolated from the world and hurt by having abandoned his promising career as a pianist due to the accident that took his sight. One day, Roberto meets Suzana, the great love of his life, and his old passion returns with full force. But there's a problem: Suzana's engagement could put everything to ruin, separating the passionate couple once again.
In Bahia, in the late '60s, the alienated college student Lula spends his time protesting in the university, but without political orientation, wandering on the streets, smoking grass, trying to be an actor and having sex. Meanwhile, a common young man stalks women on the streets trying to have intercourse with them.
Duda is a young girl of 13 years intrigued by her mother's work. Beside a new friend, she starts walking at night, and crosses a border with no return.
Adri is a young woman newly formed arts in college who divides her time between the single friend, employment and therapy. One day she meets Mona, a well-connected architect and money. On the stairs of a building in Porto Alegre, a passion born of two very different people.
In Northeastern Brazil, twelve-year-old Maria is sold to have a better life as a housemaid. However, Maria is resold and sent to a brothel in the Amazon gold fields and put to work by the despicable Saraiva.
While visiting a home for children, a little girl meets Joseph, a boy whose only dream is to have a yellow umbrella. This unexpected encounter awakens his memories of the past.
Rubens is a carefree, charismatic swimming instructor who finds himself accused of displaying inappropriate affection toward one of his students by the boy's mother. Other parents and colleagues are only too eager to condemn him.
After two middle class teenagers commit a horrific crime, their parents debate whether they should protect their loved ones or let them face the consequences for their actions.
In a big city, a solitary computer technician meets an intriguing man on a website, where people share their fantasies.
The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They suffer from the proximity to the city, which brings lack of resources, pollution of rivers and springs, racism, police violence, fires, lack of infrastructure and sanitation, among others. Unable to live like their ancestors, their millenary culture is lost as it merges with the urban culture.
On a lark in Tijuana, a carefree Brazilian art student crosses paths with a brooding Mexican journalist, sparking a cascade of events across both Mexico and Brazil. As Dolores and Damián discover an intimate love and a mysterious spiritual heritage, they struggle with ever more costly choices.
A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by the Brazilian censorship. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981.
Blue Blitzkrieg is a study on depression. The product of this study was applied as a short film containing a fictional story about the last day of a young man who suffers from the disorder