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As head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Brazilian diplomat José Bustani became an obstacle in America’s march to war with Iraq. Ousted from his position, he now revisits the chilling events that marked a turning point in global power structures.
Scenes from life and Nara.
A young woman suddenly loses her hearing. Amidst the mental confusion, she is taken in by a deaf woman.
Maurino (Marcelo Mac) suffers from auditory hallucinations and thinks he is a vampire, even though he is terrified of blood. After a conversation with Doctor Edvar (Babu Santana), Maurino suffers another psychotic crisis and decides to walk the streets of Lapa with his favorite machete, talking to the voices that keep echoing inside his head. Your biggest concern is thinking you're listening to people's thoughts.
After an exhausting day, Pablo lies in his bed, where he begins to experience several bizarre events. Between his failed attempts to escape, he realizes that he can't for some reason. Maybe something from the past keeps him trapped. What motivated this situation?
Despite her position at the epicentre of the Brazilian bossa nova scene, singer Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, known as Miúcha, has been largely underappreciated. This documentary, which dives into her career and personal life through a rich collection of archives, aims to change that.
Kaio just wanted a night of sex with Eduardo, a guy he just met on a dating app. But strange things happen when the Santos family shows up unannounced and prepares a special feast for the two of them.
Through memories of her own past, the artist Meibe Rodrigues proposes a reflection on negritude and survival.
The minimalism of Sofia's life is broken with the arrival of a mysterious man named Yuri, who claims to be an old acquaintance of the girl's mentor. What is Yuri so desperately looking for? What does Sofia protect with such devotion?
Nicholas is a young aspiring chess professional player. After a losing streak he questions his dream. Then, he bets with himself one last game, which may define his fate.
Lucas is a young adult who needs to deal with the responsibility of working to support himself. When a camera he really wanted to buy goes on sale, the young man begins a search for ways to fulfill his desire.
One hair salon. Seven haircuts. Seven experiences of exile. The documentary stars the owner of the salon, Fernando “Pablo” Mupapa, as he unfolds from the haircut ritual to open himself up to the voices and reports of immigrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo living in Brazil. Through a connection with Africa, the dialogues between Pablo and his clients recorded by the filmmakers reveal assertions of identity and the dream of an anti-imperialist revolution.
When her boyfriend Thomas travels with friends, Hannah finds herself alone and vulnerable to the dangers of an obsessive stalker with a devastating secret.
Returning its activities in the middle of the pandemic, a theater company tries to record a play. But one of the actors hears the news that David, one of his colleagues, died. While the news fills the theater halls, the actors react to it differently and David's presence is reconstructed through mourning.
A free adaptation of the novel History of the Eye, by Georges Bataille, Janaina Leite investigates the relationship between theatre and pornography, a recurring theme in her last shows, in which it is claimed as a scenic art. Hybrid between fiction and non-fiction, Story of the Eye – A Porn-noir Fairy Tale mixes 13 performers, some amateur and sex workers including a porn actor, a camboy, and a camgirl. With the collaboration of erotic film director Lara Duarte and multi-artist André Medeiros Martins, who performs works on art and pornography on different platforms, the play follows the structure of the book to tell, in fairy tale settings, the story of three teenagers in their sexual discoveries. During intermezzo, the audience watches a gig with live music and performances. Between the blatant theatricality and the explicit of pornography, the show recreates this fable noir among the vulgar and the sublime, mundane and cosmic, ordinary and abyssal.
The movie tells, in a fun and reflective way, the rivalry between two angels in the heavenly office. Angeriel, a benevolent angel who always seeks to help people, is opposed to his partner Sataninha, a grumpy, unscrupulous being full of tricks to win any competition. Like a tug-of-war back and forth, Angeriel and Sataninha will compete on earth for the emotions of each human.
Young Iriana receives the news that she will inherit a big house. Soon, she discovers that the former property contains a fantastic story that will change her life.
Immerse yourself in the behind-the-scenes story of "Domingão com Huck", including Luciano's big career decision, the construction of a new Sunday program and everything that happens behind the cameras.
In “Orixás Center”, Bahian director Mayara Ferrão elicits a poetic-political atmosphere through a story unfolding from Yoruba cosmology. In the documentary, the performance of Black bodies gives rise to the archetypes of the Orixás, celebrating ancient memories and creating new imaginaries beyond the crossroads. Visual poetics delves into narrative poetics, echoing the beauty emanated by the Orixás.
With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on September 11, 1973 - and General Pinochet's dictatorship, which lasted 17 years.
Teresa tries to help Geovana as they both deal with their loss.
On a dark night, a horrible thing happens: a man stains his hands with red.
During audio for my mother, I perceive a dream cycle between memories that feed dreams based on reunions with images that evoke consciousness and the performance of the passage of time. I relive and transform a moment with my father, who died almost 20 years ago.
Fred is a successful publicist who is embarrassed to introduce his girlfriends to his eccentric Italian family. He meets Denise, the woman of his dreams, but she only accepts being proposed after meeting her family. Backed against the wall, Fred makes a date on the set of the margarine commercial he's been working on, but Denise mistakes him for Fred's family - and falls for them.
The São Francisco River crosses the Brazilian hinterland, lands marked by extreme aridity. This great river that was once impetuous and generous is now very fragile. Deforestation of its margins and overexploitation of land by intensive agriculture endanger the great diversity of its ecosystem. The lives of riverside dwellers are affected in its deepest integrity, as well as their areas. The São Francisco River is the vital flow of their existence and the central place of their hopes and imagination, but the general feeling is that if the river dies, everything will disappear with it. Women are at the forefront of resistance. They struggle daily to allow for the possibility of a future. Their children also claim this identity, which it is up to them to renew and make fruitful.
Ana, Lucas and Gabi are lonely young people who live in São Paulo's city center and find themselves out of place in the real world.
An innocent toy, an incurable longing and a child's desire can unleash forces never before seen in our world. Dudu, a boy who recently lost his mother, begins to be chased by his sticky slime, meanwhile victims are being made along the way... when The Blob meets Poltergeist, no one can stop Polterslime!
A work that brings together the voices of women of different ethnicities to tell, from each one's point of view, about the confrontations and pride in being an indigenous woman and helping to preserve their territories, cultures and ancestral knowledge.
At a time when capitalism seems to have metaphysical values never seen before, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. If not, we feel that there is no way out for late capitalism if not the end of the world: a climate catastrophe that will end humanity as we understand it.
Increasingly isolated, a boy seeks to free himself. For that, he will face emptiness and pain and will have unbelievable experiences.
The film follows the creation of the play "As Comadres" in post 2018 Brazil (after Bolsonaro's election), supervised by Ariane Mnouchkine, founder of Théâtre du Soleil in France. 20 women from different backgrounds come together, to bring to life this musical about the female universe. Beyond the theatrical questions, the film throws light on the women's desire and constant efforts to escape the dominant mechanisms of our society (including racism, for instance) and reformulate the paradigms of collective work.
If Jesus came to Earth today, would his teachings and philosophy be in line with the agitated moods we live in today? Batata Filmes presents a new collage project, mixing the playful Jesus of cinema with statements made by many of his followers, in an uncomfortable and provocative experience. Contains high offensive potential for small minds.
Jonas lives in a seaside town and has to deal with people leaving his town all the time. After his friend Giovanna has to move to the big city, Jonas isolates himself in his room taking turns between reading and watching with curiosity his neighbor, Gaspar, through the window. However, one day he hears a strange, incessant noise coming from his neighbor's house, a noise that seems to be being transmitted by a new girl in town, Sophia.
In a country where theocratic and inquisitive rituals of the collective unconscious serve the sacrifice of trans lives, “Until The Light Comes Back” is a ritual film that asserts the power of its protagonist over death as a mobilizing force, an enchantment spell and a rite of contradictions. This is because this is a film that understands contradiction as a core element in film characters and narratives to produce, like magic, other dimensions of reception.
A "short film gift" documentary that shows how Alzheimer's has affected and affects Julieta. These are affective movements that appear in the game between: pauses and flow, approaches and distances, music and silence.
Two sisters visit their late great-grandmother's house.
The documentary talks a little about the carnival experience that Arlindo Rodrigues had during his more than 25 years of artistic life.
Xavier decides to shoot with his cell phone his weekend with his best friend Miguel to tell the world and his father, Nicolas, that he might be in love with him. Xavier and Miguel is the sequel of the short film Xavier (2015).
Luiz Antonio Guinski's airplanes pervade the boundaries between image and word, composing a body of work that destabilizes matter to explore drawing, chance, symmetry - the body and the machine.
Cycling down the streets of São Paulo's West Zone, Munziger blindly follows his instincts.
The rise of the extreme right in Brazil from the perspective of artists whose works were censored.
Teacher and human rights activist Josimar falls in love with Luís but needs to delve into himself and understand himself in a new context of life and identity after receiving news that shakes him.