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A room full of memories.

Tenement women from the Bexiga neighborhood become prostitutes, induced by a mulatto woman and a crook.

The story of João "Jango" Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military.

Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories.

A short film that deals with the social and historical importance of Rainbowfest for Juiz de Fora, exploring the first edition held after the death of one of its founders, Marcos Trajano.

On a rainy afternoon, an absence haunts a father's life.

Reviewing home videos, filmmaker Paula Gaitán constructs a curious narrative about her youth while talking to her children. A filmic note in the form of an essay based on material made in Super 8. "Of which there are no limits, and full of affection and imagination", says the author.

A simple woman finds herself trapped in a toxic marriage, living a daily journey of submission and unhappiness. With few social ties and no future prospects, she looks for a job to become independent.

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.

Through the eyes of a child, the peace of the countryside is shattered when Burú brings something that should have never entered the house.

A woman gets trapped into the bathroom, there she must face her fears and a supernatural entity.

Jorge is a private investigator that has a questionable character. He seeks information about the death of a young boy in a small city in the countryside of Brazil, that is full of unfriendly strangers. Nightmares with a woman that he has never seen before, Mariá, torments him. Their meeting, in a haunted woods, will reveal that it is not by chance that Jorge is part of this mysterious investigation.

Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own life, but the conditions he imposes raise difficulties to the work of the young director.

Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.

A man dies and in heaven receives the mission of helping his former boss love life.

“Always keep Ythaca on your mind. To arrive there is your ultimate goal. But do not hurry the voyage at all. It is better to let it last for many years; and to anchor at the island when you are old, rich with all you have gained on the way, not expecting that Ythaca will offer you riches. Ythaca has given you the beautiful voyage. Without her you would have never set out on the road. She has nothing more to give you. And if you find her poor, Ythaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what Ythaca mean.” Konstantínos Kaváfis

It's Friday night. Pedro and Anastácia are at home, like millions of other couples in São Paulo. Locked away in the living room of their apartment, Pedro and Anastácia's relationship finds an opportunity to reveal its degree of wear and tear. História Familiar portrays the banality of everyday life and contemporary emotional malaise.

Somebody is selling songs for two recording companies, simultaneously. The owner of one of them hires a detective to find out the swindler's identity. But the private-eye is clumsy, and messes things up even more.

A striker who challenges the best in the world and sings that the rival fan is a fool. A footvolley duel at night, on the eve of a classic match on the sands of Ipanema. A star player who proclaims himself a god against the kings of Rio and says that his rival is a piece of shit. It all seems so distant, because it is. But those were just a few ordinary days in Rio de Janeiro football in 1995.

Nirvana falls into a coma after a boating accident. After she wakes up, doctors find that she can no longer distinguish between reality and imagination. Nirvana decides to escape before being taken to a psychiatric institution.

A documentary about deconstructing what seems complex to create something simple, something meaningful. The documentary introduces Alice, who co-wrote the script with the director. A surfer, skateboarder, artist and transgender woman born in Maceió, in the Northeast of Brazil, Alice builds her identity and finds ways to exist in a society still marked by prejudice and violence.

The history of Simião Martiniano.

An experimental short for a TV Coragem channel program.

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the Vaccine Revolt.

Young Daniel is dying to lose his virginity, but his love life is completely messed up. His father, seeing this, invites a cousin from São Paulo to help his son become a stallion. However, the cousin's arrival only ignites the boy's fire, who can't even see the beach girls.

In a port in the far south of Brazil, Leandro makes a living informally collecting soybeans that were lost during transport. But the crisis gripping the country puts his livelihood at risk. Without prospects, he wanders around in his car with the music blasting. Late into the night, he sets out in search of company, but nothing goes as planned.

Manuel is a crafty cowboy and swindler who lives to serve his two great loves – his fiancée Das Dô, and his mule Beija-fulô – and his business of selling unsound horses to suckers. The killer Targino arrives in town looking for a horse. Thinking that he is being clever, Manuel sells a sick horse to the assassin. Targino swears that he is going to kill Manuel, and dishonor Das Dô’s reputation after he’s dead. Under pressure, Manuel calls on the magic of Toniquinho das Pedras to protect his body. However, the witchdoctor demands the mule Beija-fulô as payment. Manuel, sees himself in the dilemma between having to choose between his fiancée Das Dô, and the mule, Beija-fulô.

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.

The life of Italian Brazilian ethnographic and stage photographer Emidio Luisi, through testimonies of friends and colleagues, and the showing of his works.

A girl who cares for an older woman tries to deal with her distress through sound by violently materializing her desire for silence.

Five friends get together to tell old horror stories...but what they didn't know was that the perril was closer than they thought.

Narrative of the process of building an identity as a trans illustrator who uses monstrous images to communicate his feelings.

A lonely woman enters a bus and gets closely observed by all the passengers in a strange and intriguing manner. She doesn't understand anything about those stares and doesn't know how to react to them. What could possibly be wrong with her?

Two mothers, a crime. Two sides of the same story and the hard process of moving on after losing the anchors of their lives.

A 1923 Brazilian silent comedy film directed by Luiz de Barros, now considered a Lost Film. Augusto Aníbal Quer Casar is recognized as the first portrayal of an LGBT character in Brazilian cinema history.

Clara, a newly hired nurse at a psychiatric hospital, witnesses abuse in the institution’s neglected wards. When she tries to report the torture of a patient, she ends up being interrogated by the police. But instead of clarifying the facts, her answers only deepen the suspicions.

Meetings between Bahian artists from different generations and their creative processes of reinterpreting classic Bahian compositions.