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Bom Fim, in Porto Alegre, was a stronghold of the youth movement that took place between the 1970s and 1980s. The trajectory of the place is revisited through interviews with musicians and artists who lived those golden years.
In 1985, a daring worker of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Brazil denounced a massacre in the lawless region of Corumbiara. The investigations turned to a series of indigenous genocides in the area. Spanning 20 years, the film shows the search for proof and the version of the survivors, when they were finally found, hiding in the forest, terrified of white men.
An extroverted, cheerful, dreamer, Rosetta was raised in the “Traveling Circus of Pitibiribas”. From a very young age, she dreamed of following her parents' profession and become a circus clown, but when offered the opportunity to perform in public for the first time, she gets nervous and gets her number wrong. Consumed with the feeling of failure, she runs away before she could fulfill her dream
Hollywood Rock Festival 1993
ABYSSAL FISH is a creative film in the border between fiction, real and performance through the artistic work of Luís Capucho. A singular artist who survived the time when the HIV represented the death stigma. Building an amazing work of poetic power postdisease, Capucho surpasses the physical sequels that have left him mute and without part of his body movements for a while, until the current partial recovery.
A naked singularity is a gravitational singularity lacking an event horizon, a point in space where density is infinite and observable from outside the depths of space.
In a dystopian future, Joana tries to take care of her son, who contracted MYNOSY, the Mysterious Noise Syndrome.
A young engineer on holiday gets involved with a boy who has a strange relationship with the wind. Their close friendship arouses suspicion in the small town. When the boy disappears, the engineer is accused of murdering him.
The Three Musketeers (Dede Santana, Mussum, Zachariah) work at home Sra. Ana Rocha (Rosita Tomáz) and has the difficult task of going in Foz do Iguaçu retrieve an emerald necklace, with which the plant is Mr. Louis at stake, and Chicken Joe (Renato Aragão) who lives in a poor chicken coop offers to help. Arriving in Foz do Iguaçu, find the bad guy, but he sells the paste to a villain in Manaus, in the Amazon already, Chicken Joe takes some stones, are the villain but he sold to another bandit in Rio de Janeiro, where they find the villain and finally retrieve the necklace, and the stones that Chicken Joe took were actually diamonds.
Luísa decides to go after her father that she never met in order to understand why he abandoned her.
A generation reminisces about its own memory — what was it like to be a queer man in decades past? With São Paulo in the background, they reflect about the urgency of a life that was kept hidden for so long. And it is at Bailão that these various stories converge.
Renata, Nilza and Paula arrive in the big city in search of better opportunities and in an Argentinian casino they meet Adelino, the owner. Loren and Misaki leaves and Adelino rents a mansion with the intention of attracting millionaires to marry them with the girls. They know some men and the girls manage to get married, apparently resolving the group's financial problems. In order to help Adelino, the newlyweds decide to set up a matrimonial agency.
Cida is black, is 40 years old and works for Maria, an 80 year old woman, widow and childless, who is extremely racist. The mistress gloats about the maid, who puts up with being mistreated in silence, but finds a form of revenge in a game of chess.
During a night of boredom, two friends dive in the mystery of a childhood event that puts the safety of their memory and everything that surrounds them in check.
Every man wants Maria Helena... she has a pimp called Marcelao who wants her to do porno movies. Tired of everything, she leaves everything for real love and passion.
17 year old Helena lives a love story that will incite her search for freedom. However, she will also discover that growing up involves difficult decisions that will lead to disappointments and losses.
The film focuses on unpublished texts that deal with the signs of physical fragility, cinematographic preferences, evocations of ancestors, mentions of childhood and memories of Gilda de Mello e Souza.
In the 1990s, two brothers were accused of murdering eight women, one man and one child in the Serra dos Órgãos region. In the eyes of the suspects, Sergeant Téo realizes that the trial of the press, police and local society is fundamentally racist, and begins to have doubts about the conviction of one of them. Based on a true story, the film is a work of fiction about the famous case of the "Necrophil Brothers."
Gregory is in love with a carnival masquerade. He goes after her every year. His friends make fun, but he's a romantic convict. Luisette is a transvestite in search of affection. Together they spend a night of intense love. The next day, Gregory takes Luisette to a beneficent soccer game with friends dressed as women. As she plays he falls in love. Luisette captivates him by his sincere love.
The documentary addresses food preparation within Candomblé and the affective and sacred relationships that permeate food.
Successful at work, Fernanda is an example of women of the third millennium, free to make their choices and independent. Yet in her personal life she finds herself struggling to find a husband. Like other women of her generation, Fernanda put her personal life on hold to devote herself to her career and now suddenly feels her love life situation has become an emergency. Being single at 39 is quite different from being single at 29, after all "the fertile egg has an expiration date"!
In a rainy afternoon drive, a man embarks on a journey through his memories. As he questions his faith, the line between past and present begins to blur, leading him into a maelstrom of fragmented images.
Did you ever wonder what will the future of health-care hold? How will advances in medical A.I. change our lives? Will algorithms eclipse doctors entirely? We hope not. Instant Doctor is a short film to show appreciation for doctors and health-care human workers everywhere.
This observational documentary was realized by filmmakers at the State University of Paraná. It follows the Federal University of Paraná’s Téssera Dance Company in black-and-white images as the group’s members prepare the dance piece “Black Dog”, a work about confronting depression, in June of 2017. The film’s story, structured in chapters, presents archetypal characters overcoming individual crises for the sake of collective expression. “The pack must walk together”, says the company’s stern but compassionate leader, within the context of a pedagogical work about the importance of a show going on.
"Matriz.doc", directed by Otavio Sousa, is a film about the making of Pitty’s album Matriz. It features behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with collaborators, and visits to key locations in Salvador, Bahia, connected to the artist’s early career. The documentary explores the creative process and the cultural influences that shaped the album.
In the near future, three young people document the final days of their hometown, knowing they will never see it again.
Apiyemiyekî? addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in 1970s, when during the Brazilian dictatorship indigenous lands in the mid-west were invaded for the construction of the national road BR-174 and the installation of a mining company. Illustrations about the period, created by the indigenous population, including children, reveal a traumatic history, referring us to the present day.
A documentary examining a Brazilian ex-convict turned evangelist and his daughter, who preach to huge crowds throughout Brazil.
Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal village. She is involved with Jeison, who also works on the coconut farm and who free dives for lobster and octopus in his spare time.
Three young men from the beach neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro lead a carefree life, in spite of having no money. After meeting Denise, who presently turns out to be Dênis (a man), they start to learn some tricks and their lives begin to change.
As filmmaker Jairo Ferreira shoots his life and friends in Super 8mm he also becomes the vampire of the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo. In O VAMPIRO DA CINEMATECA Ferreira develops a poetic representation of his idea of “inventive cinema” without a plot in the classical sense. Ferreira mixes situations of everyday life in the streets of São Paulo with scenes from classics of film history, which he filmed from television or from a projection with his Super 8 camera. The author as a vampire sucks from various sources – not only in cinema, but also in poetry and music – and creates a portrait of his time.
Everything changes in Fani's life when the opportunity arises to do an exchange program and live in another country for a year. The revealing conversations by phone or MSN and the constant notes during the class turn to another subject: the upcoming trip.
Kira, a botanist who is also the daughter of elves, must fight the evil wicked witch Algaz. In her quest, Kira will be helped by Epifania, agood witch, elf Daphnis and even Queen Dara, the fairy mother.
A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
The repulsive, the ignoble and the deplorable. The bloodthirsty, the despicable and the humiliating. Peas, dinners and monkeys.
Slowly we recognize traces of a couple's history. Joana, living isolated in an apartment between books and mysteries searching for an "ideal world" and Jota living on the streets searching for a confrontation with the real and trying to give back the final word to the "other"..
Part activist and part globe trekking photographer, Sebastião Salgado is most famous for recording the migration of people and culture around the world. In this extensive conversation, Sebastiao Salgado revisits his adventurous career via the breathtaking images he captured.
Jongo, a renowned photographer, and Candinho, a young and inexperienced journalist, arrive at a decaying country club of São Paulo's high society, run by women involved with the law.
Francisco, imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital, is challenged by Dr. Luiza to confront his memories and accept the truth about an alleged crime. As the line between reality and imagination blurs, Francisco's pen becomes his only anchor to freedom.
A needy guy, an impatient waitress and a complicated pizza order.
The history of Simião Martiniano.
Tiny is a girl who takes care of her pet carnivorous plant with lots of love and fresh ants. On the eve of her 7th birthday, Tiny wants the plant to call him by her name, but the plant demands more and more ants. The ants, tired of being eaten, work out a plan that involves poetry, umbrellas and a time machine.
William Puente, an anonymous accountant, is mistaken for Gómez, a lobbyist wanted for regulatory offenses and shadowy ties. Forced to assume the identity of the man he should fear, he discovers in power an irreversible vertigo. Between his own life and the intoxication of influence, he must decide who he is willing to become.
