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A woman lost in a mall parking lot tries desperately to find her way out. As she wanders aimlessly between parked cars, she struggles to maintain her sanity and resolve a decaying relationship via her cell phone, discovering the hard way how much she may have contributed to being the victim of her own labyrinth.

This work, an experimental film, is the result of extensive archival research whose mission was to find the most absurd commercials on TV in Pernambuco, memorable VTs in the 80s and 90s marked by aesthetic rudeness and sometimes naive communication. This film became a champion of pirated copies in rental stores across the country, still on VHS.

The Pernambuco painter Cicero Dias created an unparalleled art for the world. Close to a modernist and influenced by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger and Joan Miró, he marked the history of Brazilian art.

On the eve of leaving the informal work sector and being hired, Samuel is haunted by his work instrument: the engineer mascot.

Dora is a German-raised teenager visiting her enigmatic Brazilian grandmother for the first time. While trying to return to Germany at all costs, she discovers the incredible history behind the women of her family.

Documentary focusing on Brazilian samba singer Bezerra da Silva and the composers he chooses to record: simple people, workers living in the poor slums of Rio de Janeiro and its suburbs.

After 7 years living abroad, the son comes home to try and reconnect with his father. Over the dinner table they share a meal, memories, grievances and so much more that needed said but never was. After so long apart, what will be different this time?

The vibrating effects of sound waves on a watery surface draws a haunting image. "UN" is a performance created and developed by brazilian sound artist bella.

An exercise critical of the official culture, based on a performance of the Vivencial Group. Scenography in the streets, alongside monuments of Recife.

A Lisbon night is traversed by the intensity of René, a precarious young Brazilian who has anchored in town, immersed in personal and existential conflicts. Queer parties, love, rejection and loneliness move through her body, out of place between the two continents. Stephanie Ricci captures the experiences of a free soul on the run, of one who doesn’t know where, how and when, with vivid sequences and conversations that impregnate a magnificent city portrait.

The repulsive, the ignoble and the deplorable. The bloodthirsty, the despicable and the humiliating. Peas, dinners and monkeys.

Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of Black Brazilian culture.

Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom.

On the morning of her birthday, Márcia wakes up and finds a hole in the floor of the living room of the old family home where she now lives alone. Desperate, she asks Hélio, her neighbor and former boyfriend, for help. He comes to her rescue, bringing with him memories and a snorkel. Márcia hides the hole with the sofa and tries to appear normal to Luís, her brother, who arrives on one of his rare visits. The two then find themselves grappling with the preparations for the party, while wandering through the past in an attempt to find answers and stop the rift that continues to erode between them.

A nameless woman waits for a mysterious man she is in love with. As time goes by, she moves through a range of emotions born from his absence and her solitude, reflecting on the stillness she finds herself in.

A three-part documentary about Brazilian soccer—from the players who reach the top to those who don't make it there.

35mm, Color, 95min42seg, 2.624m, 24q, Eastmancolor

Documentary about the world of hip hop and the daily life of those who seek to survive from music in Brazil, all set in the traditional neighborhood of Lapa Carioca.

Valdomiro gets involved in yet another scheme, this time involving the same people that tricked him into losing everything - and he brings everyone from Ms. Jô's hostel along.

These men are all dripping in sweat, but it doesn't matter.

A young woman, holding an important secret and refusing to bow to oppression, exposes the individual dynamics and relationships established in her family that has lived in isolation on a deserted beach for ten years.

Roberto, divorced with a failing business, his son Itay, a spoiled child that snubs his father and despises soccer, and the grandfather Samuel, an enthusiastic soccer fan that recently found out he doesn’t have much time to live, depart spontaneously to the World Cup Games in Brazil- their former homeland. Their unplanned trip turns into an emotional journey that changes all of them forever.

The film tells the story of Chen, a Chinese immigrant who lives as an invisible person in the city center. Amid homesickness, difficulty communicating in Portuguese and tiredness from work, Chen can't fit in anywhere. At night, alone and when the streets are empty, the asphalt becomes meditation and there he can dream. It is a fiction created and set in real locations in collaboration with the characters themselves, all non-professional actors who play themselves, creating a portrait with documentary aspects, both of their lives and of the center of Curitiba.

Pedro, a 70-year-old gay nurse, is taking care of Daniela, his ailing transgender friend. In order to find her a vacant hospital bed, he decides to help an arrested and wounded criminal to escape.

For the people of São Paulo, in the early 1930s, Getúlio Vargas's Provisional Government had become a dictatorship. The civil war lasted three months. The conflict resulted in approximately 800 fatalities.

Pierrot Dubois, an esteemed French thief, leads his partners Amélie and Jean-Luc on a daring mission: to steal a valuable diamond from a vault in São Paulo's largest bank.

On a night like any other, the lonely Lucas casually meets Patricia Gennice, the most gorgeous girl in town, and she invites him to come to her house for a date in one hour. From then on, everything will go wrong for Lucas on his way to Patricia's place: he is robbed, kidnapped, threatened, tortured, sees angels and demons, and worst of all: he finds himself without condoms!

The life and work of singer, musician and actor Jards Macalé.

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

Raquel and Denise share casual moments before a movie, unaware that their lives are about to take a drastic turn. A sudden illness causes Raquel to faint, and when she wakes up, she finds herself trapped in an unfamiliar room. Panic sets in as Denise appears with a knife in hand, revealing a disturbing secret. With time running out, Raquel must find a way to escape before it’s too late. But what truly drives Denise? The answer may lie in a chilling list of “things to do before dying."

Parents and children are reunited after 13 years apart. This is the starting point of the film, which follows the process of affective reconstruction of director Marcos Yoshi's family, crossed by the flow of migrations between Brazil and Japan, known as the dekassegui phenomenon. The story of a family of Japanese descent torn between the need to make a living and the desire to stay together.

Paulo works as a journalist for a print publication and is a man of many women. He has a long-standing affair with a wealthy married woman and also begins a new relationship with Luísa, a young call girl who is his client.

Serginho was one of the founding members of the historic Coligay fan club, the first fan club formed exclusively by homosexuals in the history of Brazilian soccer. Here, he tells a bit about his story and also about his relationship with Magia, one of the most recent seven-a-side soccer clubs in Brazil, formed only by homosexuals, who compete in championships and tournaments exclusively for LGBT's with the goal of bringing together a space of respect and welcoming amidst the still sexist and prejudiced scenario in soccer.

The film follows the life of a couple of singers from Münster who became known for covering the most prominent voices of distinct eras of Schlager music. While Markus got recognition through youtube tributes to Udo Jürgens (known for introducing French Chanson in 1970’s Schlager) Steffi often performs the repertoire of Helene Fischer, a contemporary Schlager icon who opened the genre to a Global Pop standard.

Helena, a forty-year-old woman whom, during a period of crisis, begins to receive anonymous letters from an admirer that watches her daily. Meanwhile, she tries to keep it hidden from her partner, João Pedro. Based on the novel by Czech author Milan Kundera.

The independent documentary produced and directed by fans about 15 years of the Colorado World Cup