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The film documents the construction of political thinking of the newest candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Brazil by the female PARTY, the actress Georgette Fadel, from her relationship with an unusual troupe of ten people who accompany her on an initiatory journey in search of hers greatest reference, Pepe Mujica, in Uruguay.
Set in 2005, Castelo is a traditional photographer who reflects technological changes at a time when digital photography begins to take over the market.
A film that records the rehearsals of a Brazilian theatre troupe directed by Victor Garcia, and then the conflicts that break out as they tour Iran and France with a performance of Calderon's autos sacramentales. A problem with a scenery prop sparks a crisis in the group and the film chronicles this disaster.
Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city. Meanwhile, a rich girl falls in love with a poor composer. Based on the musical play "Pobre Menina Rica", by Vinícius de Moraes and Carlos Lyra.
Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.
A small-town school teacher leads an apparently normal life, including a longtime boyfriend. But she secretly has several lesbian affairs until the women in her life start being brutally murdered.
Narrated by Selton Mello.
After losing his scholarship to the course, Márcio finds himself faced with his last chance to enter medical school. As the Entrance Exam approaches, the young man is immersed in a universe of competition, paranoia and violence.
Three young people witnessed a mysterious event in the skies over the city of Imperatriz (MA). After a year, they decided to return to the location, even with storm warnings approaching. During this journey, they discovered that families were being secretly evacuated from the city. Faced with this mystery, the friends were confronted with the question: how to wake a city forced to sleep?
Erick is a high school student who works through the Young Apprentice program as a delivery boy for a video game store. The story begins when he chats on social media with a boy he's interested in, until the relationship doesn't go further and he has to face his frustration with the help of his best friend, Duda.
In a small town in São Paulo State, everyone lives happily: Tinoco and his bride Joan, Lollipop and Nha Barbina. One day come the men in charge of opening a railway arrive bringing with them trouble. Paul, one of the engineers, Joan tries to alienate Tinoco, who is accused of stealing money. Workers go to jail. Tinoco is delegated to investigate the case, to prove that their innocence.
João Moreira Salles' "Nelson Freire" is a film-documentary about the great Brazilian pianist, who is certainly among the five great pianists of the world today. Nelson Freire is a quite discreet / shy person and João Salles respected this feature of his personality. During almost two years he followed the pianist around the world to compose a film, made of 31 thematic sections to cover the many aspects of the life of this genius of the piano.
A mysterious encounter in the middle of the forest that continues to repeat itself day after day, endlessly. An infusion like that of a labyrinth of the mind: strange, cyclical events intermingle with novels, short stories, and history, as if in intervals between naps, dreams, and readings during a nameless narrator's period of solitude in a cabin in the woods.
The young model Karen works in isolation when she receives an unexpected visit from Anna, a love from the past.
Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.
Movie director in his forties and in existential crisis falls in love with an unknown teen girl he sees walking down the streets, without knowing she's the daughter of the woman he's having a relationship with.
Soldiers from the Military Police stand at the counter of a decadent diner, where they can eat greasy food without paying the bill. When they discuss their violent job in one of the biggest cities in the world, they make it clear who, in the name of the law, is allowed to commit the most hideous crimes.
Heartless Mrs. Mavilda runs an orphanage where kids live in miserable conditions because she keeps all of the donation money for herself. She hires a new assistant who, along with Santa, helps children finally have a merry Christmas.
After farewell, the waiting. After the waiting, the return. After everything, all they wish for is to be together and one day is enough for them to wait for the next one.
Religious beliefs linked to football.
Two college classmates find out the world is supposedly ending tomorrow, just before a major assigment. As the clock ticks, they begin to see their campus and everything else with new eyes.
Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.
Corrupted by the power of Cipriano's Black Book, a Jesuit and his followers begin a reign of horror in colonial Brazil, until they be cursed to live forever trapped under the graves of a cemetery. Now, centuries later, they are ready to break free and spread their evil all over the world.
A pair of eyes tries to see what it cannot.
In the past, when white people didn’t exist, we used to hunt with our yãmĩyxop spirits. The whites came, cut down the trees, dried up the rivers and scared the animals away. Today, our tall trees are over, the whites surrounded us and our lands are tiny. But our yãmĩyxop are very strong and taught us the stories and chants from our ancients who walked around here.
The life of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig in Brazil. He wrote the famous book "Brasil, País do Futuro" (Brazil, Country of the Future). He and his wife Lotte, in a mysterious death pact, decided to kill themselves in the week following 1942 Carnival, in Brazil.
Hellen is a scientist who creates a plant-person, Quimera, in a small terrarium. They long for an impossible encounter.
Filmed in a mini DV, the film "República Tiradentes" is an affective poetry, based on the stories of gafieira dancers, actors, rascals, girls and all the bohemians who lived and live moments of joy and glory in downtown Rio de Janeiro. It is a tribute mainly to the origin of the gafieira.
After inheriting a fortune Tereza Cristina, Crodoalvo Valerius, better known as "Crô", is tired of life millionaire. Determined to find a new muse who can devote his life, he begins a personal quest that makes interview several turkeys. Your goal is to find one that is best qualified to own that he can serve as a steward, as he did with his former employer. However, after much review, just realizing that his ideal muse is exactly the one I had ever imagined.
Based on Guy de Maupassant's "The Night".
André is a middle-aged rocker, decadent, alone and forgotten, who lives off the crumbs of his successful days. His mother is an award-winning writer, who lives as a recluse in a country house and commits suicide when the degenerative disease of old age begins to threaten her independence. André then goes to her house for a weekend, getting rid of the furniture and books, sharing them with friends and family. In an increasingly empty house, he is faced with his own inability to solidify himself as an adult, to escape his mother's shadow and find his place as a man and artist at forty years old. Surrounded by the bush on all sides, the protagonist's depression leads to increasing paranoia, intensified by alcohol. Lost in a scenario of delusions, memories and literature, André will face his internal and external nature, in a war where everyone nearby can be a victim.
Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador.
With the unexpected end of her relationship, Bruna finds herself lost and heartbroken. What happened? Was Sabrina’s love just an illusion, or is there something deeper that Bruna still can’t see? Pain, memories, and the search for answers lead her through this emotionally intense journey, filled with reflections from the past.
Traces the relationship between Tina, a young Mexican trans woman, and Eliana, her grandmother, as they navigate Tina's transition and struggle to build a life for themselves as undocumented immigrants in New York City.
The movie depicts the political crisis that led to the suicide of president Getúlio Vargas, in the 19 days that preceded August 24, 1954. The crisis began with the attempted assassination of journalist and politician Carlos Lacerda in August 5, 1954, at rua Toneleros, Rio de Janeiro, in which Major Vaz was assassinated instead. Investigations pointed to Gregório Fortunato, chief of Vargas' personal guard, as the orderer of the frustrated assassination. This incident was one of the most importants in the history of Brazil.
In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressane's youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction,
A woman, a man, and a bombshell news story.
A heavy rainstorm destroyed everything in the land where Jussara and her family inhabited. With no alternative, they moved to a big city.
A countercultural movement that took place at Ipanema Pier marked the history of all participants. Painters, musicians, actors, surfers and others came together to change the system through peaceful demonstrations, including drugs, sex and new experiences. After decades of events, the main participants recall the events.
Lunatique is a sci-fi short film about a lonely woman who fights daily for survival in a post apocalyptic world.
The plight of a young filmmaker witnessing his potential future slipping away amid a suspended scenario.
