By approaching the process of sexual reassignment, the work mixes data and experiences, focusing on family relationships and the nuances of the feminine.
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By approaching the process of sexual reassignment, the work mixes data and experiences, focusing on family relationships and the nuances of the feminine.
Nara is pregnant. They say she won't be a good mother. But everything in life is a matter of choice.
A FAB officer makes a forced landing on the pasture of a countryside and arrives at a house, where he is greeted by Maria, a paralyzed lace maker. Without a phone so that he could report the accident to the Aeronautics School, the officer decides to tell everything about the School.
A 15-year old girl yearns to see the ocean, but her disability interferes. Unable to travel to the beach with her sister, Marina strikes out on an adventure of her own.
Famous crime story writer puzzles police investigator when all the women he gets involved with get murdered.
The image of a body that is not in front of the camera. The absence of an image. The presence of a body. The materiality of a dream that is impossible to remember when one wakes up. Someone falls in love. Someone searches for words. Someone moves. Someone falls, or flies. Everyone dances.
The life of jazz clarinetist Booker Pittman.
When American private eye Steve Marshall receives a mysterious summons to the sweltering streets of São Paulo, the mission seems clear-cut: find Louise Dunning, a woman on the run for the murder of her husband. But in the shadows of Brazil, nothing is as it seems. As Marshall closes in on his target, he begins to realize he isn't the one leading the hunt.. he's being steered.
A drug dealer accepts an unusual help for his troubles.
Amélia is a woman with an extremely exhausting workday, after not reconciling her professional and personal life, hallucinations and nightmares start to take over Amélia's daily life, leading her to realize that she is being haunted by the Creature.
The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was there for political reasons, and Jorge, as a common criminal.
On the way back from the swimming practice, Janaina is violently approached by the police. Safe back home, she differently faces her relationship with her father Julio, who’s a policeman.
A single and apparently humdrum scene in which various days all blend into one. A couple is having breakfast in the kitchen. He is older, greyer, more anguished than she, who is light, pretty and giddy. A morning like any other, were it not for the secret fact that it would be their last together.
Clara is eight and lives with mother and brother on the countryside. Just the other day the kids were playing hide and seek. Everyday miss happenings.
Helena Maria Balbinot, a countryside teacher from the south of Brazil, exchanged letters during 24 years with Brazilian modernist poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. The movie reveals part of these letters. Through scenes of poetry and extreme beauty, this friendship is reinvented in the audience eyes. A meeting between the poems of Drummond and the particular universe of Helena Maria.
In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes romantically involved with Lúcia, a fan of his who drags him into a mysterious crime plot.
Seeks new artists for a job interview.
Ana spend the afternoon recording a mensage to someone. Someone who need to be forgotten and left behind.
Fátima and Gonzalo are a couple of farmers who are going through a grieving process due to a recent family loss. One morning, Fátima finds a strange figure inside a bluish egg that she intended to cook. Her relationship with her husband start to fall apart, and only until they manage to face a painful fact from the past, that they will finally be able to heal.
With a box filled with unsold poetry books and the relationship with her parents deteriorating, Vanessa is losing hope. An unexpected visit rekindle new feelings.
Toby goes to a gay spa for the first time. Amidst the crowd of strangers in the hunt, he meets JD. Quickly, they form a bond.
Love and adventure in the Marajó island.
Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will live a fragmented love story while competing in different film festivals around the world.
Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.
A young group of friends goes on a cozy summer trip, but, everything turns dark, quite literally…
A rich and lonely old man leaves his old mansion in Ouro Preto to his nephew, who moves into it with his wife. But soon enough the house begins to acquire a will of its own, while the man’s personality undergoes a radical transformation, assimilating the habits of the dead uncle.
Pelé, a retired nurse, revisits his memories as a performer in the Boi Tira-Teima group from Caruaru, Pernambuco. Between longing for the past and the impossibility of celebrating Carnival in the present, he imagines what it would be like to return to Carnival one last time.
In a building site, a worker agonizes, after an accident, and tells his son about the virtues of honest work, but he's not heard. Turned into a vagabond and having mean people as company, the youth decides to get arrested in order to find a solace against winter. When he finally decides to follow his father advice and get himself a job, he falls under the influence of a policeman, under the false accusation of robbery.
A delicate history on the universe of discoveries and expectations of the adolescent when they find the love.
History shows the daily struggle of fishermen on the coast. Life gets more difficult when a windstorm hits the region, bringing misery. The arrival of an unknown further undermines the community and leads men to react violently.
Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends transform a small apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels", at first securing money and success, but...
Tania learns that her grandmother spent the last years of her life in the loving company of an alien. Together with two friends, she travels through rural Argentina to bring the creature back to its place of origin.
An Italian actress arrives in Belém do Pará, to stage the last moments of Carlos Gomes, author of “O Guarani”.
In the suburbs of Rio, the everyday life of T.B., a young woman who can't make up her mind whether to stay or to join her sister who lives elsewhere.
Mariana and her cousins are in a small town, on the funeral of their grandmother. In the car where they spend the night, the interior light does not turn off.
In 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the farmers who support it. Against this backdrop, Sinhá Moça falls in love with a young lawyer, and they get involved in a great love story.
At the end of the 19th century, a period dominated by oligarchies and the Church, young Camilla is forced to marry a wealthy farmer to rescue her family's social position. But on her wedding night, her husband discovers that she is not a virgin. Furious, he keeps her prisoner in his house, watched over by her laidmaid, and allowed to receive visits from only the local priest and sacristan, pending the annulment of the marriage. From there, she engages in a love triangle that questions the relationship between faith and reason. The film was shot in 2002, and released in 2008.
In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a beautiful girl. This forbidden love affair soon turns into an unbridled passion.
Maria Auxiliadora is a 24 year-old woman very poor, that she lives Joana, her 7 year-old daughter close to. Needing go look for the result of Joana's exam in the hospital, Maria asks the priest of the local church that takes care of her to return. In spite of Joana's insistence to go with the mother Maria insists that she is with the priest, because she distrusts that her daughter suffers of a serious disease. To entertain the girl while it awaits the mother's return, the priest decides to tell her a mother's history that dedicated her life to the son: Mary, mother of Jesus Christ.
An upper-middle class punk singer Andre, Magnata spends his time with his low-class friends, singing in clubs and wasting money. When he accepts a challenge to steal a Ferrari, he gets involved in a thriller that can lead him to a tragic consequence.