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Documentary about the poet, writer and playwright Hilda Hilst, considered by critics as one of the most important voices of the Portuguese language of the twentieth century. Through the use of personal sound and image files, interviews, meetings and fictional interventions, we will seek the memory and the presence of Hilda Hilst in her daily life at Casa do Sol, the farm where she lived in Campinas.
In the small village known as Vila do Vale Verde live three great friends: the young Piconzé, the parrot Papo, and the pig Chicão. The three lead a peaceful and quiet life in the small community where they live, but one day, everything changes: Bigodão, a famous bandit from the region, attacks the town and kidnaps Maria, Piconzé's girlfriend, forcing the three friends to embark on an adventure full of dangers and excitement to rescue the girl and defeat Bigodão.
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds himself hailed as a hero of the national liberation struggle.
Patricia is in love with Artur, who works in her parents’ farm. Both are very happy and full of plans, but Artur is violently killed by her father, leading her to die of a broken heart. Years later, their souls begin to torment those who live in the house.
Simple and popular hillbilly Jeca is forced to get involved in politics, when the leaders of the region, competing to be elected mayor of the town, try to get his support.
The year is 2015. Brazil has won the World Cup and is experiencing significant economic and nationalistic growth. However, it becomes the target of bioterrorist attacks due to a "leak" claiming that the world's oil supply would run out. Therefore, the country becomes a prime target for powerful nations because it is one of the largest producers of this substance.
A documentary about the educational children's TV show Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum that originally ran from 1994 to 1997 and shown to this day on Brazilian public television.
From a lifetime, a single memory has survived. Only one.
The documentary that began together with Mestre Môa do Katendê before his political murder, tells the life story of this capoeirista and founder of Afoxé Badauê, intertwined with the rise of black cultural manifestations in Bahia, based on a last interview left by him.
In the summer of 1970, Janis Joplin went to Brazil to get away from heroin. During her meteoric and nearly anonymous stay, the singer was thrown out of the Copacabana Palace, drank heavily, and met the love of her life.
Futebol Bororo, directed by Alê Braga and produced by TV Escola, discusses popularization and as symbols of football for the Bororo Indians of the Menuri village, in Geraldo Carneiro, Mato Grosso, as a form of identity and socialization.
Reminiscence: remembrance of what the soul contemplated in a previous life, when, beside thegods, he had a direct vision of ideas. Through the reminiscences of a 74-year-old woman, who became blind as a child, we see the world.
Brazil, 1930. Marcos and his family (descendants of slaves) left the Jequitinhonha Valley for the Mucuri Valley. Fleeing from the drought, hunger and violence in the countryside, the "quilombolas" sought a new territory to build their community. Decades later, when everything seems to be in peace, a huge construction company wants to build a dam in Marques' territory.
Gledson is a lonely worker who left his hometown with the dream of becoming an actor in Rio de Janeiro. Tormented by vague memories of his past, he sees his life change when he begins to write a book about Teresa, a prostitute who goes through death expecting a child and ends up on a fantastic island. When a friend of Gledson decides to turn his book into a film, reality and fiction mix: while Teresa has to decide what to do with the child born on the island and the writer deals with the challenge of becoming a creator, the film changes when the director confronts the experience of her own motherhood.
Around 900 thousand people are trafficked a year for international borders only for sexual exploitation. However, despite all the dangers, young Brazilian women to enter the world of sex tourism, believe that they will change their lives and their dream of finding a Charming Prince. A minority find a great love and get married. The film goes from the Brazilian Northeast to Berlin seeking to understand the sexual as well racial imaginary and power of young southern Cinderellas and northern wolves.
In "Solo de Violino", bank clerk and aspirant violinist Rodrigo is a serial killer. When his next door neighbor reveals that she is in love with his music and Rodrigo, he has difficulties in controlling his killing impulses. In "A Guerra da Malvina", four female thieves break in the house of the porn star David Cardoso to rob money and jewelry, but they end having sex with the actor.
This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society.
The troubles of a separated couple, the adventures of a bookseller in the home of a lascivious woman, and the confusion of a businessman from São Paulo.
A man gets home and finds his wife dead. In a silent impulse he takes her body and plunges on the road. This man had never left his hometown, Brasília. When his wife dies, he leaves pushed by this emotional collapse, and submerges the road and it’s fortuity, searching to reconstruct his own reality. She survives in his memory. The road and its environment play an essential part in this man’s process: the landscape and the people, spontaneously. The Sun Against My Eyes follows this trip, from the countryside plateau to the fluminense hills.
Set in colonial Brazil, the love story between a Brazilian man and a Portuguese-born dame sets fire to a political movement which brought freedom and democracy in Brazil for the very first time.
Greg (Jorge Caetano) is a screenwriter hired to write a script about Maria Guaranis, a radical-style artist who has gone missing. As the author produces the script, he ends up identifying with Maria and getting lost in the creation process.
Gabriel is surprised by the arrival of Júlia, his ex-girlfriend, who goes to his house to pick up some belongings that were left there. For him it's a chance to try to talk to her, for her it's just a necessary evil. However, the conversation between the couple makes them both realize that many other immaterial things remain even after the end of a relationship. What to do with these things?
Aspects of the Brazilian composer's life, highlighting musical excerpts from the "Série Brasileira".
Dino and Dalmo are twin brothers. Dino is very shy, and the other, the opposite: a true Don Juan. When Dalmo dies, after being shot by a furious husband, he is received in heaven by a Club of Don Juans. But, in order to be admitted, he must go back to Earth, incarnated in his brother's body, and correct three mistakes he had made in his previous life.
Álvares de Azevedo was a 19th century Brazilian romantic writer. He died prematurely (died at the age of 21), but left a significant work for Brazilian literature. Among her, the novel “Noite na Taverna”. The film, loosely inspired by the book, tells a day in the life of its author in parallel with that which is one of its darkest and most complex characters, Johann. Inserted in the same universe (a hypothetical São Paulo of 1850), Álvares lives a normal day of his academic life while Johann is involved in a death duel that triggers in several other consequences such as murder and rape.
On September 13, 2022, the death of filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard was reported by television news broadcasts.
A young woman disillusioned with life comes across a dream that makes her face her insecurities so that she can renew her hope and find another way of seeing the world and life.
"A Day with Jerusa" follows Silvia, a young, mediumic market researcher facing the hardships of underemployment while awaiting the result of a public exam, and Jerusa, a gracious 77-year-old lady, eyewitness to the daily life on Bixiga, a neighborhood filled with ancestral memories. On Jerusa's birthday, while she waits for her family's arrival, the encounter between her deepest memories and Silvia's mediumship allows them to travel through time and realities common to their ancestry.
A sound operator needs to show that she is capable to get the opportunity to work at a shoot to finally start her career in the film industry.
The comedy tells the story of Hermanotheus, brother of Micalateia and typical Hebrew of the year zero, companion, good shepherd and obedient. He receives the divine mission to guide his people to the land of Godah, in a satire on the biblical story of Moses. In a setting that represents an immense desert, actor Ricardo Pipo plays Hermanotheu, who encounters characters on the way from Cleopatra to the son of the Whole -Powerful. Actors Adriana Nunes, Adriano Siri, Jovane Nunes, Victor Leal and Welder Rodrigues take turns in the other roles. The voice of God, which appears in the off-screen, is by Chico Anysio. Following the group's line of satire, “Hermanoteu in the Land of Godah” visits the diversity of the Bible. The comedy also makes numerous quotes from the modern world, bringing the past closer to the present.
Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.
Victor and João were in love with each other as teenagers, but didn’t really know it. Reunited by chance six years later, they’ll spend one night together to find out what has changed and where they’ll go from now.
An interview with Babalorixá Mário Miranda, a black religious leader in recife, Brazil, who enjoys carnival dressed as a woman.
Unemployed, penniless in the big city and after accidentally stealing and killing his landlady, Antonio flees Rio de Janeiro towards Northeast of Brazil to find his mother. On the way he meets a beautiful woman and a pair of criminals.
A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do everything to end this environmental crime. But in the search for the paths that seem most correct, each one of them will go through more personal and moral conflicts.
A serial killer invades a company for yet another massacre, but a young fighter at the end of his shift decides to face him, risking his own life.
The memory of Olivia's father still haunts her months after his death. She returns to her psychologist in order to try closing her old wounds, but she finds things that were not able to be seen in the surface before.
Ana and Helen, two divorced women, were close friends as teenagers. Today, amidst the corona virus pandemic and in quarantine, they get in touch after 20 years via internet. Through video conference calls, memories, sensations and emotions reflourishes.
The Robin Hood from the movie The Trapalhões and his pack ruin the plans of a farmer named João Climério. He wanted to take the lands of his deceased brother and leave his niece Catherine with nothing. During a showdown, Robin Hood is injured and needs to be replaced at the helm of the group. And then the funny confusions begin! As a substitute is chosen Zé Grilo, a modest and at the same time confused pawn, who in the end manages to unmask Climero and save the beautiful Catherine for which he has a passion. In this mission it is aided by the companion Willie and also by a magic wand and a protective pen, provided by an Indian sorcerer.
