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An outcast makes a journey through a dam in Sierra Maestra, place of origin of the Cuban Revolution. As in a short story, we are guided through this attenuate landscape gradually crossing the delineae cartography of a body that with every movement is diluted, finally becoming one with the habitat.
Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.
In an enchanted world, five little princesses study at a magic school. Despite being diligent, Cindy, Bianca, Hime, Iriá and Zade always get into trouble.
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.
Returning to the past in filming a home routine, Jorge reflects on the damage caused by a violence that grew inside him.
A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.
The life of jazz clarinetist Booker Pittman.
In a reality where movement is always necessary, Ytalo, as he heads to work for another day, realizes that his world is different.
Babi is a woman who lives, loves, and moves around the city with the same intensity as she pedals her bicycle.
Short musical film paying a tribute to samba composer Zé Ketti, one of the greatest popular artists of Brazilian music. In a jam session, in the late composer's house in Inhaúma, a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, a group of friends get together to play his music while a "feijoada" (typical Brazilian food with black beans)is being cooked in the kitchen. The samba-players, first-rate samba stars themselves, remember Ketti's great hits in a homage to the man who was best known as "a voz do morro" ("the hill's voice" - but hill as a metaphor for a place where poor people build their shacks in slums, in opposition to city, where middle-class people live in Rio). Among the guests, names of the traditional "samba-school" Portela and ex-partners. Also, the presence of a black hat on an empty chair, represents the composer himself, who died in 1999, after a life of many accomplishments in music, and appearance in three of Dos Santos's films: "Rio, 40 Graus", "Rio Zona Norte" and "Boca de Ouro".
Mojica owns a movie-themed bar where he speaks about his passion for brazilian films.
Inbetween fiction and documentary, this film sails through the brasilian street resistance following the parlamentary coup of state.
A successful 38-year-old attorney leads a normal life until her daughter is shot by criminals. Desperate and powerless that her daughter's attacker hasn't been arrested, Carla decides to take justice into her own hands.
Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.
Brazil, 21st Century. An indigenous boy is born in an isolated village in the north of the Amazon. His mother and brothers believe that he is the reincarnation of Makunaíma, the creator of the world we live in, and that he would have returned to save the planet from the apocalypse. Seeking to understand about his origins and his mythical identity, the young Makunaima meets Ci, the mother of the forest, with whom he falls in love. When Ci disappears, Makunaíma decides to cross the country after the man who took with him the last memory of his great love: a magical seed with mysterious powers.
In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes.
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.
Tells the story of detective Remo Bellini, who gets pulled into a web of death and mysteries that take him to a world of illusions where everything is a self-created fantasy. He's taken by this evil inside that makes him lose a sense of reality with visions, anguish and loneliness - everything takes him down a path of no return. He can't understand what's happening, but the deaths surrounding him are getting closer and closer. It's a race against time before it's too late.
A film in three movements. In the first one, we find a historical synthesis of Brazilian architecture, from the slaves' dwellings to the Ministry of Education Building. In the second segment, architects such as Burle Marx, Lina Bo Bardi, Grigori Warchavchik and Joaquim Cardoso talk about architecture's social function. In the third movement, inhabitants of some Brazilian cities discuss the space they live in.
It feels so good to dream of you. It feels so real it fills me with pleasure. And I can't think about anything else.
A young girl of 13 lives with her mother on an isolated property. They are awaiting the return of their father and husband. But instead, another man appears, transforming the relationship between the mother and daughter. Based on two short stories by Brazilian poet Hilda Hilst.
Ariel Kuaray Ortega returns to his hometown to visit his grandfather in a region of Brazil bordering Argentina. He wants to finally hear the full story of Canuto, a fellow villager who turned into a jaguar and then died a tragic death. A plan soon arises to make a film about the mysterious Canuto, with the villagers playing all the roles.
A documentary about child gestures.
Hit man does his part in a deal, but doesn't get the money he was promised. For the treason, he decides to eliminate them all.
In a black community on the outskirts of Recife, female solidarity ensures the celebration of Jade Nicole’s 8th birthday, even while her mother is away at work. The community, located on a flight path, hears the sound of airplanes as the children imagine wars from old movies. The adults join forces to survive their daily battles.
Carlito, a bank clerk in Rio de Janeiro, is an engrained megalomaniac. Aided by his girlfriend Marta, he executes a wild plan that involves Milton de Souza, a married businessman, director of a factory.
Deusa works as a toll collector on the island where she lives. Used to seeing the movement of travelers, she had never thought about her own destination. When a whale runs aground on the beach, Deusa feels different.
The Water Law is a Brazilian documentary that explains the relationship between the new Forest Code and the Brazilian water crisis.
The trajectory of Rosa Magalhães, the most successful carnival designer in the history of Rio's carnival.
A boy is buying vegetables for his family in a street market but suddenly something changes in the way.
Mites is a small experiment about a cinema that has survived without the presence of man and without the films made by men. Or simply a film about the current conditions of a Brazilian cinema in ruins.
Presented and conducted by the actor Caio Blat, the documentary tells the story of the murder of the newsman Jonas Eduardo Santos de Souza, executed when he was improperly barred at the door of the Itau bank.
Tailor is a transgender cartoonist that shares in his web page other trans people’s experiences and their challenges in society. Film about transgender, made by transgender crew.
In a big city, a solitary computer technician meets an intriguing man on a website, where people share their fantasies.
Adapted from the short story "O Espelho" by Machado de Assis. The story suggests that our “external soul”, tied to social status, prestige, and the image others have of us, is far more important than our “internal soul,” that is, our true personality.
This short film is an attempt to explore "Star Wars" (sic) style interplanetary wars. It stars Marcos Braun and Carli Bortolanza, with interpretations in the best "low budget" style possible.
"Pureza" tells a story of a mother, Pureza, who goes in search of her son, Abel, disappeared after leaving for the mining in the Amazon.