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Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principles, is in charge of investigating Joana, a teacher who's accused of political crimes. After some false starts, he manages to arrest her, but is startled to learn that she's also a nun. The revelation doesn't alter the natural course of events: he must torture her in order to obtain a confession, and gets increasingly attracted to her.

Stopping in search of help, Luna meets Marcos, two very different people, but with many paths in life in common. A moment of conversation can change your destinations.

The story follows the journey of a teenager facing bullying and how it impacts his life. The short presents two perspectives: in one, the main character is unable to cope with the pressure, resulting in a tragic outcome; in the other, he decides to seek help from a psychologist and finds ways to overcome the situation, demonstrating that there is a way out and that asking for help makes all the difference.

Since childhood, Otto has dreamed of making a living from art, singing, acting, and shining on stage. But dreaming is expensive. Born into a peripheral family that never supported him, he discovers early on that talent isn't enough. When he finally gets close to his big break, he realizes that effort isn't enough when the system only opens doors to those born into it. A short narrated about hope, frustration, and the price of dreaming in a country that turns art into luxury.

After separating from her abusive husband, Analu knows Fernanda, a lovely lady who offers her shelter. The friendship between the two turns into an intense love affair, but Fernanda shows possessive and violent. The situation worsens when her husband discovers her whereabouts Analu and starts chasing her. And even worse when Fernanda also rejected, decides to put an end to the life of the lover, without considering the consequences.

A particular portrait about the migration of a family from northeast Brazil to São Paulo.

An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.

The film follows a few days in the life of a young actress who has lost her sight, but who tries to be independent, also addressing the tension and trust between the protagonist and a student hired to help her.

William Puente, an anonymous accountant, is mistaken for Gómez, a lobbyist wanted for regulatory offenses and shadowy ties. Forced to assume the identity of the man he should fear, he discovers in power an irreversible vertigo. Between his own life and the intoxication of influence, he must decide who he is willing to become.

American pastor Renee Murdoch, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, was tragically attacked during a run in September 2012. Hospitalized in a critical condition and with minimal prospects of recovery, she received the full support of her family and her husband Philip, who shared Renee's struggle with the world, hoping to bring together as many people as possible in prayer for her recovery.

A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.

Calypso and Ulisses live in exile in a collapsing world.

The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons himself to crazy and violent situations.

Four people with different values and standards meet in the urban chaos of Copacabana. Rita and Waldick come from the country, and befriend two Rio de Janeiro native guys, upon arrival: the playboy and surfer Paulo Roberto and a pimp called Tim.

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.

Different groups of people wander in a rainy, windy, dark world. They spend time together, trying to get away from their depressing jobs, meandering constantly towards a disturbing surreal queer fantasy.

A small town girl, who's an aspiring singer, tries to make a living out of music in the big city of Rio de Janeiro.

North American journalist Rachel Clark uncovers a terrorist plot aimed at overthrowing the current president of Haiti. As a result, the UN mission to stabilize the country is forced to intervene.

Toquinho is a young man living in Marechal Hermes, a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, together with his widow mother and a younger sister. Although he is poor, he is also ambitious, and wants to change his life. He spends all his time on the beach, at Arpoador, Ipanema, where he dreams to become a famous surfer. Besides, he usually finds Patricia there, a rich and liberated young woman, whom he likes a lot. To impress Patricia and satisfy some of her wishes, he lets himself be seduced by André, a gay guy who, in return for his sexual favors, promises him a trip to Hawaii for a surf championship.

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of his beloved, recalling simultaneously three different lives: one from the past, another from nowadays and another one from an distopic future.

Fred is a blind boy who lives alone with his mother. Out of his dull routine, in which nothing ever changes, he speculates continually about the color of things and claims to prefer the color white, which represents for him everything that is unattainable.

Winter holidays. Monique goes to the beach with her parents. With no friends around, she tries to find something to do. Then she meets a young man on the volleyball court.

Film based on the book "O Gaúcho" by the writer José de Alencar.

Haunted by heartbreak, a depressed painter obsesses over his artwork. But when a prying neighbor appears at his doorstep, he is forced to uncover traumatizing secrets.

A lonely elderly man travels through the suburbs to find someone who can play an old vinyl with a song by his late wife. In an emotional journey full of rediscoveries, the short film explores a relationship of true love and the need to preserve the most important memories of your life.

Amelie, a young woman who finds herself engulfed in unresolved grief, adds a new object to her collection that leaves her torn between nightmare and reality.

Two brides wait in a church room while their marriages don't begin. But they are not anxious, as expected: they do act like ghosts in existential horror. As they wait to be called to the start of their respective ceremonies, they reflect on their relationships and lives.

In Inadequate, by Mylla Fox, we follow the drama of Amanda, an obese young woman, and her mother, who is obsessed with her own body and a certain healthy standard of living. The insistence on imposing their lifestyle on their daughter causes that the relation of the two to wear to a point where Amanda can no longer deal with its mother. During the short is worked out the relationship between the two, with all the shocks, and still the need for affection that one feels for the other, after all.

Strong and feminine, "Why don't you cry?" addresses the delicate topic of suicide. Jessica is very closed, Barbara is a time bomb. The two meet when, at the stage of the faculty of psychology, Jessica meets Barbara. The coexistence leads Jessica to question her empty and meaningless life.

A film director and his wife retreat to the countryside to escape personal and professional struggles. With their autistic son, they seek a fresh start in a freer, more natural life.

Locked in the same house in quarantine, a couple shares their routine in apparent tranquility. The discovery of a secret, however, will make living together a nightmare.

Lucas and Caio are studying in the last year of high school and they are two inseparable friends.

A disappearance brings up a couple's toxic relationship.

Marcela disappeared without leaving a trace. Those who were left to deal with her absence try to figure out who and what Marcela really was and the reasons behind her disappearance.

Based on the true story of four friends who decide to install a communal pirate radio station called Rádio Favela in a shanty-town, to give voice to the outcasts' complaints.

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.

My Father's Truck is a part coming-of-age part road film about 10-year-old Mai Vy as she skips school one day to help her father with his passenger truck for hire.

In Vitória, the middle-age piano teacher Gertrudes sublets her apartment to two younger women, the unstable Lúcia and the nurse Madalena. Gertrudes misses and daydreams her former love and has a motherhood relationship with Lúcia; Madalena has a promiscuous life, having one night stand with the most different men every day and her behavior is criticized by Gertreudes; and Lúcia is dreamer that manipulates Gertrudes and expects that the handyman Alfredo becomes her prince charming. Their conflictive relationship ends when Madalena discloses their inner feelings and secrets to each other.

In a hospital bed, Eduardo, a married man, remembers his involvement with the young Anita, until their downfall.

A married couple lives peacefully with two children until the husband starts getting violent.

Mariana is a young woman from the interior of Minas Gerais who leaves for Rio de Janeiro in search of a man who seduced her and got her pregnant. But the rascal man gave her the false address, with only a photo as a reference. Staying at an uncle's house, she is faced with the difficulties of living in the big city, seeing that finding her husband in Rio is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Cecília, a depressed aspiring writer, comes home to spend the night with her dear friend Helena. But as she confesses her torment, her apartment becomes haunted and the two of them are preyed upon by a powerful Entity that traps them in a repeated cycle of pain.

Nair marries Renato for love, and is unhappy because her husband all the money with his lover, Arlete. Sónia, Nair's friend, is a woman who lives happy with a man out of wedlock. Sónia's example Nair to accept the advances of Jorge, a lawyer who lives separate his wife. During a jealousy fight, Nair kills Renato, and it will be Jorgewho will plead she is not guilty of murder, as she acted in defence, when she was facing her own death...