The disappearance of onças from the territory leaves the community devastated. Women from different generations face this conflict, which requires uncovering ancient secrets to bring the onças back before everyone else disappears.
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The disappearance of onças from the territory leaves the community devastated. Women from different generations face this conflict, which requires uncovering ancient secrets to bring the onças back before everyone else disappears.
Interlude is a short film that explores the perspectives of a relationship through Eduardo and Camila. While the first part reveals moments of connection and passion, the second part shows the nuances of heartbreak through Camila's eyes. Alternating between narratives, the film addresses the duality of human feelings, love and its impermanence, and themes such as change, loss, and acceptance.
In the 1920s, in the city of Cataguazes, Minas Gerais, a gang from the communist party caused chaos in the region's cinemas by swapping the original film cards for others with Marxist content.
On the eve of her wedding, Glorinha finds herself looking back at her life and confronting the injustices, sexual perversions, adultery and crimes that are hidden under the happy bourgeoise facade.
Aliya goes into the forest every day with three flutes, each imitating the sounds of three animals: an owl, a moose, and a bear. Until today, she had never used the latter.
Two friends start a new venture to become young millionaires
Shards of memory that linger, untouched by forgetting.
A recreation of the conceptual art of singer Lorde's album “Melodrama”, where through a frame the intention loaded with feelings of the artist's album is conveyed, including love, hate, drama and melancholy, experienced on screen by the actress giving life to the character Lorde, in her bedroom, on a sleepless night, lost in her thoughts.
Faith, love and lies.
In the mid-1990s, the Brazilian government handed over control of its railroads to the private sector. There was then a reduction of passenger train lines to almost zero and shrinkage of the rail freight network. The machinists, who once traveled with an assistant, began to work completely on their own in their long journeys. The film presents a subjective view on the daily life of these professionals and their solitary routine in the midst of a grandiose, tedious, desolate and at the same time passionate universe.
Lost in a beachhouse, Rodrigo searches in his memory for the romance he lived the previousnight with a woman, and how to find her.
Based on Stephen King's short story of the same name, “All That You Love Will Be Taken Away” introduces us to Alfie Zimmer, a sales representative on one of the most important days of his life (perhaps his last).
Guilherme struggles with romantic relationships until he meets Eli, but everything starts to change when Lucio discovers their relationship.
Cazé, a doorman at a building in the southern part of Rio de Janeiro, gets trapped with his son on the building's rooftop during a soccer game.
An obsessive photographer crazy for female feet; a man that projects himself on situations he sees on TV; a simple public officer that receives a proposal from a corrupt Judge; a slaughter in a marriage crisis and a broken heart secretary that dreams to get married. These five characters will have their lives changed from a hot weekend.
Izaquiel, black and gay, has been working in an old street cinema for a few years. The cinema's situation is not going well and its owner finds himself pressured into subletting it to an evangelical congregation. That's when Izaquiel finds himself drawn into a spiral of persecution and control by the new tenants, religious extremists.
A coming of age story about a boy in RIo de Janeiro, Brazil who, after his father's death, finds out about his family and where he came from.
"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the behavior imposed on women, they seek to rescue the strength of the feminine. The new woman, born in the Brazilian land, incorporates the Amazons and Santa Guerreira. At his side, the new man, more loose and creative. Closing the cycle, the initial road is resumed. " (HBH / QC)
The story of the famous "Polacas", Jewish women deceived into prostitution in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1900's. Ricardo interviews Mrs. Mira, who struggles to bring back memories from her mother's past as a Polaca.
Elias, in transit.
A simple farmer, attached to the memories of his father, struggles to stay with his family on their small farm, despite the difficulties imposed by the flooding of the Amazon rivers.
Shortly after leaving a troubled relationship, Italo falls in love with Daniel, his new neighbor. After discovering that Daniel is an ex-con, Italo feels pressured to question his feelings for the boy.
Jezebel is a seasoned TV reporter focused on the next juicy story that will generate the highest ratings for the TV station. She is on assignment to track down a man named Elias, who supposedly performs miracles, in the rugged backlands of northeastern Brazil. Bent on getting the next sensational news, Jezebel is determined to prove Elias a charlatan.
No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots in slavery that takes place in the northeast state of Pernambuco. As the Falstaffian character Tiao, Valmir do Coco leads a nonprofessional cast of authentic Maracatu practitioners in a tale told through dance, music, and the supernatural, set in the sugarcane fields outside Recife.
In Iquitos, during the era of military dictatorships, a consul must face the arrival of a daughter he does not see in years and the stalking of a military collaborator diplomat who comes to discover his protection to a deserter pilot.
Luisa and Rafael are a couple who live in a rural area and use various elements of nature surrounding their home to try to protect their newborn baby, who is at risk of being stolen by an evil entity. The characters rely on their memories and ancestral rituals to save their child from the entity, generating a radical change in their lives.
A young man who, as a child, had a strong relationship with his grandmother, goes to the big city and distances himself from his ancestry. When he returns to his community, he no longer identifies with that culture, but he is soon caught up in a dream when he remembers a distinct language in which he used to communicate with his grandmother as a child, reviving a strong relationship with his identity.
A woman prepares a delicious banquet for a dinner party.
Documentary about Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and the many facets of his work.
We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investigation with part of secret attempts, discovery of Soviet documents and a lot of investigation by the Brazilian media. It was all under our eyes.
The film is an adaptation of the play of the same name staged by the theater group Os Satyros. More than 200 characters from the central region of São Paulo, including residents, prostitutes, drug dealers, businessmen, transsexuals, prostitutes, actors and musicians were interviewed. These testimonials were the starting point to build the trajectory of eleven characters that intersect during a night on the town.
The disaster of the fall of a bridge, followed by the greatest of all disasters: human stupidity.
A humble family receives a real Greek gift: a luxury car, which cannot be sold for two years. To make matters worse, no one knows how to drive. Time passes, and the automobile ends up having quite unusual uses.
After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of his early masterpieces, offering a combinatory adaptation of five stories by the renowned Brazilian novelist João Guimarães Rosa. Openly embracing a mode of magical realism, dos Santos' celebrated film tells the story of a farming family defined by the absence of its father who abruptly abandoned his wife and children, sailing away down the river, including his son who continues to communicate with his father, speaking daily to him from the river bank. While offering an evocative vision of rural Brazil as a timeless land of mystery and solemnity, The Third Bank of the River is also bitingly satiric in the remarkable depiction of religious belief when the family moves to the city and its youngest member, a mesmerizing little girl, is revealed to be a kind of saint, capable of miraculous acts. -Harvard Film Archive
Anna, Russell and Bernardo, 3 middle class brazilians involved in a game of passions between the autorship of a succesful book.
A wedding in the interior of Rio Grande, 1930. Among the guests, a lover of the bride, accompanied by his pregnant wife. Amid the joy of the party, the lovers decide to run away. So, the groom gathers a group of friends and sets out to seek revenge.
A single mother finds her son who has been missing for years while fighting for her right to housing in an occupied community. While mean an old figure from Brazilian folklore enters the scene.
Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim. For more than a decade, Daniel nurtures a feeling of revenge for his ex-wife, which gains strength when their now adult son finds his mother in full professional decay.
Bastu's grandchildren and friends help her pick up the strands of her life after her husband dies.