Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
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Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
Dione is a mysterious young man living with a family in a rural and remote place in the southern Brazilian plains. The quietness of the region is disturbed when a rich landowner tries to buy the small property where Dione and the family live.
Amador is a retired and ostracized gunman. Alone and bitter, he collects newspaper clippings of his old crimes in an album. After several humiliations, he will react with violence to the world’s hostility that surrounds him while also trying to get back to action.
In lawless badlands, reclusive Cabeleira sets out to discover the fate of his gunman father and grows to be a feared assassin himself.
A young mercenary is hired to kill Death.
In 1980, best friends Juliano and Joaquin join the gold rush at Serra Pelada, Bald Mountain, a mountain town near the mighty Amazon river. As the town grows in numbers, it also sees an explosion in violent crime and pollution. Soon the friends' dreams of hitting the jack pot are shattered. Winner of the 2014 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize.
A revenge. A hunt. Between dream and reality.
Kaí is a mysterious shaman who emerges from the Rio Paraná to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of cold-blooded mercenaries hired to force them to sell their land.
A betrayed man is hunted and left for dead. Long after, he returns as Castilho Paredes. With scars still deep he is placed in a family dispute to act as a hired hitman between brothers and sisters for a hefty inheritance that will draw guns and blood. As long as there are bullets, there will be vengeance
In an arid and poor region of Brazil, bikers search for a miracle to make it rain and save the land, risking their lives.
During the Rio Grande do Sul revolution of 1923, two brothers fight on opposite sides.
A mother finally has a chance to avenge her son.
Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland. During a difficult time, he finds himself in the middle of a trap that nearly kills him. Born again, Matraga resorts to faith and hard work in the pursuit of redemption. Years later, he arrives at the village reigned by the hinterland's ruler and his thugs. This new friendship will challenge his destiny. Inside Matraga, the Saint and the Warrior will duel until his time comes.
Cangaceiros arrive in the city of Sussuapara to rob their inhabitants. Who can stop them?
Limeville, the city of lime, fears it's legacy might be destroyed when the heirs of the land show up to claim the town and replace the lime with oranges. But there's only place for one fruit in this town...
"The Writer” tells the story of Pedro, a young cowboy who defies the writer of the short film (me). I used the footage of the film “Day of Anger” and changed the dialogues in order to create this comic book world ruled by the sacred script.
Mumbaca, a former soldier of a driving force who had become a bandit in the late 19th century, far from the crime and violence that spread throughout the Northeast, has his wife cruelly murdered by the notorious cangaceiro Alfinete. Lost in the inhospitable forests of the hinterland and separated by their craft, the two fight a particular battle while facing the inclement weather of nature and the limits of survival.
When borderlines were not limits for pioneers, the far north of Brazil became the destination for men and women seeking to build their lives, facing new challenges, new dreams. While for some, conquest came through hard and honest work, others achieved it through brute force and violence.
Project consisting of four short films, partially filmed. Scenes from one of these short films were included in the feature film Zombio 2.
In the countryside of Sao Paulo, in a little town called Icém, a man wakes up to take revenge.
Isabel, a young woman from Rio, receives the news that her grandfather Ismael's farm, her place of affection during childhood, was sold by her parents without her knowledge. Driven by her veiled memories, she picks up her mother's car at dawn and drives to the farm in an attempt to repair the past.
"It's not even a meatball!" Conducted in the regular Fiction course at Cinema Nosso in 2011. Teacher: Victor van Ralse.