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In Northeastern Brazil, twelve-year-old Maria is sold to have a better life as a housemaid. However, Maria is resold and sent to a brothel in the Amazon gold fields and put to work by the despicable Saraiva.

Recently arrived from Recife, bachelor Paulo goes to a party in Rio de Janeiro and there he meets Lucíola, with whom he falls in love. Despite his friend Sá having announced that Lucíola is a prostitute, Paulo begins to experience great love with her, but cannot avoid being jealous.

Raised in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Damião joins a local drug gang to help pay for college. During a night shift, he spots hooded figures sneaking through the forest toward a church, uncovering an NGO tied to powerful politicians hiding rituals devoted to the King in Yellow.

A Video Essay on the work of director Franz Zwartjes.

This is a live DVD recorded for MTV in 2004, where the former Titãs frontman performs 18 songs from various phases of his career. As usual, when it comes to these MTV live recordings, the sound and production is very slick and elaborate, constituting a rich framework for Nando Reis' music. Worth special mention here are the versions of some of his own tracks that were previously recorded by other artists, such as "Relicário," "All Star" and the beautiful "O Segundo Sol" (all three by Cássia Eller) and "Do Seu Lado" (Jota Quest). The old Titãs material is also excellent, as for example the hit "Cegos do Castelo," the reggae "Marvin" and the slightly odd but humorous "Não Vou Me Adaptar." The mildly meditative "Mantra" is another highlight. On "Pomar" Reis is joined by the young band Ultramen from Rio Grande do Sul. The fine production and excellent song material make this perhaps Nando Reis' strongest effort as a solo artist.

The image depicts a reunion.

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.

As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens his eyes to the world beyond his 'casa grande' - not least that of the feisty, mixed-race firecracker Luiza. Cultures, classes and generations collide in this engrossing coming-of-age drama from Brazil.

In its narrow and winding streets, there are still churches, the old and rich houses in ruins and the houses of the poor, recalling the lavish past of the city of Laranjeiras, in Sergipe.

Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.

With influences from the Ramones, the Misfits, Buzzcocks, Pennywise, Green Day, and other old school punk and hardcore legends, CPM 22 recorded their first demo tape in 1998. Their popularity in the Brazilian underground scene led CPM 22 to record the independent album A Alguns Quilômetros de Lugar Algum (A Few Kilometers From Nowhere). Two years later they were included in the Brazilian MTV video-music award in the demo clip category with "Anteontem" (The Day Before Yesterday).

A musician of limited talent and obsessed with rock music sees his life collapse after a devastating family loss. Alone and penniless, he takes on a new job that forces him to wander the city, where he crosses paths with a wide variety of people who challenge his worldview. Between unsettling memories and these new urban bonds, he begins an erratic and transformative journey to confront his own ghosts and try to reconnect with reality.

Laura remembers an affair that just ended: for a few weeks, she and a married doctor, Alec, met every Thursday for lunch in a train station and a movie. They fell in love in this short period together. Based on the story by Noel Coward, and shot for Grupo Bandeirantes' tele-theatre.

​An unprecedented collection of pictures, characters and historical facts about the city of Rio de Janeiro, rescued by tv networks, documentary filmmakers and foreign journalists over the course of the 20th Century. The film reveals how Rio, its inhabitants and its cultural and natural attributes have been seen by foreigners. This is an opportunity to relive, through the eyes of a foreigner, social, political, technological and mundane events which Brazilians either did not manage to document audiovisually or whose works were lost.​

The film recounts personal memories of the Brazilian national team in recent World Cups and the dream of celebrating the long-awaited sixth title.

At Lara's 13th birthday, her mother takes her to a picnic in the park. Everything goes well until the girl disappears, leaving the mother in complete despair.

Three cousins ​​were set in a magical location in southern Brazil, known as Cerro Jarau. They grew up under the influence of the legend of a princess imprisoned in a cave, known as Teiniaguá. Among the three cousins​​, the girl is the bravest and who had the courage to challenge this legend. But all grew and she was helping her husband in the sale of a club. When the new owner of the site refuses to pay what you owe, your husband is pressed for a criminal to salute a debt, and it ends up practicing a robbery. His wife, betrayed and humiliated, decides to take the money and run to Cerro Jarau again, which will once again rediscover the ancient legends of the region.

Just like our memories, the stories we honor tonight were immortalized through a very unique vision of its creators. The winner takes it all.

The loneliness of the last person on earth.

Thieves hijack an aircraft loaded with diamonds, and then must face deadly Amazonian headhunters when the plane crashes in the jungles of Caxambu, Brazil.

A poetic essay that talks about the intense emotions of the residents in a metropolis.

Institutional film made for Petrobras in 1958, through a public announcement, about the company's actions for the training of technicians specialized in petroleum engineering.

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.

Brazilian music gets the royal treatment in this eclectic collection that features performances from such luminaries as Jorge Aragao, Fundo de Quintal, Alcione and Bezerra Da Silva. Songs include "Malandro"; "Vendi Meu Peixe"; "Amor A Primeira Vista"; "Do Fundo Do Nosso Quintal"; "Tendencia"; "Miudinho, Meu Bem, Miudinho"; "Pot Pourri: Poeira Da Idade/ Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar"; "Parabens Do Brasil Pra Voce"; and more.

Evanildo is being held at the mental asylum for a very peculiar crime. He claims to hear better than anyone else, yet he appears to be calm and controlled. As he tells how he committed murder, we understand a little bit more about his soul.

Luíza goes to her classroom, but she is not alone this time.

A suburban neighborhood in Recife (Peixinhos) shows that freedom has a past, present, and future.

Vida, a black trans woman, makes a point of dumping her mother's ashes without anyone's help, not even her girlfriend. In the solitude of her ritual, she is surprised.

An airplane pilot is hired to transport what he thinks are antiques, but when the police suspects there might be something more to it he sees himself in trouble with everyone involved.

It is a hot night in Cuba. Elizabeth de Victória, aged 22, is about to make her long-awaited debut on the stage of the biggest drag show in the entire province of Artemisa. But before she gives a live performance, she must confront all the difficulties preceding the show. A ruthless clock counts the minutes to the start of the show and the preparations of other drag queens reveal all the shortcomings of the debutant. Comments about the unknown girl can be heard whispered around the dressing room. The atmosphere is becoming denser as the successive drag queens finish their performances and everyone is awaiting the visiting debutant.

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.

Vitória is a girl with Down Syndrome who takes life as any young person of her age. Between swimming lessons, piano and college, she meets Afonso and the passion is instantaneous. The two will start a love story that no difference can shake.

The end of the holidays has arrived and it's time to go back to Limoeiro! While the gang gets together to organize a welcome party for Milena, Monica tries to deal with the expectation of receiving the perfect dating proposal.

How do we read the sky—and who taught us? This beautiful exploration of ancestral Indigenous astronomy in Brazil weaves lectures, conversations and community memory into a poetic meditation on knowledge, loss and the many ways humans understand the cosmos.

Five rich kids are trapped in a town dominated by the sugarcane mill empire. Doomed to wander around with nowhere to go, they seek unattainable pleasure to escape the never-ending cycle of non-belonging. Meanwhile, reality becomes out of sync and perception turns opaque.