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The film seeks to address the risks that Ziraldo's work takes. In a building abandoned ten years ago, the cartoonist's "Santa Ceia", a six-meter-high work painted in 1967, is far from the public and subject to the effects of time
Pedro and Rebeca are friends and study in Portugal. Rebeca is Brazilian and Pedro is Portuguese. During coexistence, the two young people deal with feelings of non-belonging, loneliness and long-distance relationships.
Surveillance cameras capture movements in diverse locations around the world between December 24, 25 and 26, 2020.
Cida decides to end the cycle of violence in her home and be an example to her daughter, Fia.
This documentary exposes the emotional and physical effects that various forms of silencing have on women.
Hugo and Isaac are cousins, but they have not been in contact for years. The first is openly gay and the second claims to be straight. Practically two strangers with opposite personalities. Hugo has been living alone in the apartment his grandmother gave him, until Isaac arrived and the two had to share not only the apartment, but also the bedroom. Between some conflicts and arguments, the two end up getting more involved than they ever imagined.
The tale of a shattered La Ursa, an imprisoned image that carries another one within it, a lurking one. From the inside of the void, La Ursa faces back a turmoil world that crumbles and destabilizes. You can only see a reflection, a snip, a Carcase.
In the north of the state of Pará is the largest block of protected forests in the world; an area of Amazon rainforest the size of the UK and home to a multitude of stories. Indigenous people, ranchers, squatters, quilombolas, businessmen and politicians reflect in their own way the impacts of the possible expansion of the BR-163 into the forest, as far as the border with Suriname. The highway project was created at the time of the military dictatorship, and until today as a shadow over the region. But this is not a movie about a road. It is a film about the abysses that separate those who share the same land.
Max, a decadent private detective with a gambling addiction, looks for suspects that might be behind the assassination of a man that also has a gambling problem.
Syrian brothers Adel and Hadi Bakkour take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro fighting for democracy in the country where they chose to live. History repeats itself: before they had to leave Aleppo to protest for freedom. Back he inherited his mother, Lawahez, and his father, Abdo. The family is reunited six years after the separation, in a changing Brazil.
The sci-fi fiction film takes place in 2044 when mysterious spheres appear in five different landscapes of the globe, one of them on the coast of Pyramiden, an abandoned town on an Arctic Ocean island. The objects start to emerge as a result of the intensified melting of polar ice, which affects landscapes worldwide. The film investigates the occurrences by creating speculations about these apparitions which have a particularity: they cannot be captured by cameras, just by human eyes. The film comprises images of scale models produced in the studio and scale models matched with the landscape filmed by a 16mm camera with a time lapse motor.
When a new celestial body appears in the universe, a remaining post-collapse community promptly sends the scientific research group known as Cosmovisionary Women to explore it.
Three corrupt emeritus from the same small political party involved in a plot of sex, corruption and betrayal are the main characters of an agile, dreamlike plot that refers to the best achievements of Brazilian marginal cinema.
Kauã dances in the hill, like a bird of prey.
We accompany different women, in their most diverse moments, while they, in their own way, summarize what BEING A WOMAN really IS.
The tragic melody of a transgender woman who was murdered by her lover.
Vilnei Collares, a shattered filmmaker, tried to survive by producing films without a budget in his hometown, with little support from local merchants. As he struggles to save his marriage, stay out of jail and win an award at the Tupanciretã film festival, Vilnei prepares to produce his controversial dramatic feature “Filhotinho de Bukowski”, in the hope of not having to get involved in local politics .
"When the wax that inhabits the soul is deeply and abundantly, tenderly and sufficiently kneaded, every thing that is transmitted through the channel of sensations will be engraved in the heart of the soul” - Socrates
A young man invites some strangers to an orgy, but when he suspects he has been drugged, he calls his transgressive psychiatric for help. But the disconnected messages and interpretations lead both of them to an extreme situation in which daydreams and reality are confused.
A film that uses the very premise of acting, of the game between real and real fiction, to imagine a world in which art becomes impossible and the artist useless.
In an arid, remote place, three people live monotonous lives: every day, while the woman feeds the animals and does the laundry, the man of the house and his field hand plow the land. But when an unexpected event breaks that routine, the oppression and cruelty will manifest unfettered.
In 2018, Brazilian band Expurgo was invited to play in the Obscene Extreme Festival, in Czech Republic, and went on a tour through the interior of Europe. In their luggage, the group took 15 years of stories, friendship and extreme music. The documentary gathers testimonies, behind-the-scenes footage and the concerts of the Minas Gerais band on their first tour of Europe.
Young man finds puzzle in his latest apartment. The new residence will not be your home sweet home.
The rising YouTube star (kind of actually) Theo, is called for a meeting with his ex-wife, Helena, at a (quite strange) bar. As they discuss their old and present affairs, the Barman try to tone them down. Their actions will lead to a difficult choice (at least for them) that neither of the two would ever imagine.
Through cinema, it is possible to recognize situations and think about them theoretically from other perspectives. Inspired by the discussion of the classic text by Mariza Peirano. The film uses excerpts from Brazilian filmography to reflect anthropological concepts such as culture, politics, ethnographic field and identity.
Identity conflict, loss of traditional ways of life and resistance. Past and present in current experiences. Documentary about the Iny people, who live in the village of Santa Isabel do Morro, on Bananal Island, Tocantins. Meanings and tensions between the recovery of the original traditions of leaders and elders and the incorporation of white culture by indigenous youth. Processes of experiences and memories: dismay and resistance in facing the Iny identity. Delicate record of different imagery views in the intertwining between indigenous filmmaker and the film's director.
Colonel Ustra (1932-2015) is the only military man convicted as a torturer during the dictatorship. Today he is exalted as a hero. But what is the truth? Through internet searches, Brazil's past is being reconstructed and collides with the present.
Combining fragments of images and climatic fields, Lumens unfolds space and time based on an experience with rhythms and repetitions, where everything that returns always returns differently.
