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The fluffy Lúcia falls in love with the sad and decadent besieger who welcomed her on a rainy night. Passionate, but keeping her flirtatious and city-like outfit, she starts cleaning and renovating the abandoned house where she has taken shelter and where she finds new love.
A short film made with unused footage from The Red Light Bandit and Carnaval na Lama.
The story of Elio, a young heir to his father's company, with whom he has a strained relationship, that receives his first big task in the business: to pay his father's debts to a loan shark. This night a revealed secret will change the lives of these three men in violent ways.
"Vanity of vanities, everything is vanity" says the bible. The word flows from the tongue naming the pleasure of earthly life and judging it as beautiful, but shallow and useless; vanity is a deadly sin. A female sin. The man painted the woman, put a mirror in his hands and called it vanity. The woman in representation admires herself, but the one who really admires her body is the artist. Whose vanity? In VANITAS, we re-divide the woman in our bodies, showing the depth of what is palpable. If the Father's temple hides after death, clean and perfect, we reject them. We welcome Mother Nature in us, life-death in a perpetual sacred cycle, also honoring her dark face. You may wish to reach heaven, but it is on earth that your knees fall.
Luiz Antônio, a sociologist, had his political rights suppressed, during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Also, his wife Ruth had been tortured and killed. So he decides to hide in his niece Natércia and her husband Felipe's country house for a while. But she invites the intellectual Marcela and broker Ricardo for a weekend together. Luiz's world is upset and the existential problems of all get entangled, with unexpected results.
On a performance night, a female artist from Rio Grande do Norte mentally prepares for the show of her life. Performing in a setting reminiscent of a ruined dressing room, she decides to regain her strength. The outcome of this night could change her failing career forever.
Laura decides to shut down the internet and watch the world around her. She soon meets Agatha and they fall in love. Almost as if everything was programmed to happen.
Alex is a resourceful motoboy who cheats death daily on the most dangerous streets in the world. One day his close friend is killed by a reckless motorist. Alex seeks justice, but a corrupt cop stands in his way. The cop has orders to destroy all evidence of the motorist’s complicity in the accident, because of the driver’s wealth and status.
After losing her husband, a photographer questions her art and searches for answers.
A reflection through the eyes of small beings.
Based on the real story that happened with famous writer Franz Kafka in the 1920s. After finding a little girl crying because she lost her doll, Kafka is moved and promises to bring her every day a letter written by the doll, who is travelling around the world. This short-film with German-Expressionism inspirations depicts the scene where the writer gets home anxious to write the first letter.
A young gay man lives alone with his pet in the Amazon. He makes tea and plays music and lives a quiet, solitary life. Of course, sex is an indispensable part of his life, so what will he do when his desire strikes?
A morning in the lives of two transsexual women in Manaus, Brazil.
The singer Dalva de Oliveira and the composer Herivelto Martins lived intensely on the stage and in life. The 13 years of marriage and the disagreements, which gained emphasis with the separation, contributed to an important artistic and cultural production.
Protagonist is faced with an internalized feeling that emerges in a moment in memory
After an exhausting morning, a young woman drifts off to sleep and slips into a dream world. As her fantasies unfold, an unsettling feeling begins to take over. Is it just a dream, or could it be a nightmare?
After an argument with her mother about a photo from the past, Renata begins to be haunted by a mysterious figure. Facing her nightmares will be the only way to reclaim her life.
Women who run with each other.
A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins a group of poor beggars with the intention of finding a potential partner to marry in order to avoid her return to that place.
Set in Goianinha, a small town in the Brazilian countryside, the film follows the journey of young people who feel out of place in their own land. As they question their identity and sense of belonging, they face challenges in an environment where gender, racial, and sexual diversity still encounters resistance. While navigating both internal and external conflicts, they realize that, despite the town’s limitations, certain memories can redefine their connection to it.
Messi and Johnny are invited to a party at Barra da Tijuca. When they get trapped outside, they have the entire night to explore the streets, and to discover that this place wasn't made for them.
In a Roma people camp in Belo Horizonte’s metropolitan region, Mrs. Morena reads passers-by’s hands to earn a living, and Mr. Nonô sings to spend time. Among the daily chores, it comes to the day when Morena needs to face the saddest Roma ritual.
As soon as Mauro, an Administration student, discovers a strong vocation for mediumship, he drops everything to go deeper and dedicate himself to Umbanda, a religion he embraces so strongly that it makes him give up his studies. Determined to open his own spiritist center, Mauro moves to the countryside.
To prove the innocence of an unjustly accused student, a teacher begins an investigation at the school.
1983 — A young biologist returns home from studies abroad and feels something wrong with his body. This is the start of the AIDS crisis when the first wave of the epidemic hit Brazil. Lives will change, friends will be lost and the future is uncertain.
Victor and Verônica are classmates. The girl, who has never been kissed in her life, falls in love with Victor. One day, after a lot of pressure from his friends, he decides to have sex with her. Two months later, amidst feelings of fear and anguish, Victor and Verônica visit together an abortion clinic.
Bruno is a depressive and lonely guy who cannot sleep, in the meantime, he became a PVV volunteer, to help people with some kind of problem, in one of the calls, he falls in love by a woman and sees a new light in your life.
As a prayer, a character exhausted by her own life desperately calls out to something with no name as a last resource for help in her existence. Through the analogy of a lamp that slowly turns on as if answering her request, let there be "light".
In the midst of moral isolation, immoral transformation arises.
Despite being promised to another man, a young orphaned woman falls in love with man working at the farm she lives in , and together they escape. According tradition in Northeast Brazil, her aunt goes after them, in order to kill them for revenge.
In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of migrants move trying to find better place to live, at least with water. Some of them go to Recife, to get a vessel to Santos expecting to have a better life in the Southern. In the poor area of Recife, an old washerwoman launders clothes to survive and support her family. Her husband Zé Luis, a former sailor, is crazy due to a hit of the boom of a mast on his head. Her older son Raimundo works in a grocery and selling mangoes on the street, trying to save money to move to the Southeastern with his girl-friend Aurora. Her daughter wants to be a prostitute to have a better quality of life. Her younger son is seriously sick.
After being evicted, a family in serious financial difficulties moves into a tenement next to a cemetery. As soon as they settle in, they meet the neighboring couple who, upon learning of the financial problems of the newcomers, offer them a pact to be made through a magical amulet: the monkey paw.
