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After failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra, a talented violinist is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school. He soon finds his world transformed by the power of music and friendships formed with his pupils.
In this anthology of horror episodes, 13 bizarre stories are told by independent film directors of Southern Brazil. Between ghosts, serial killers and demons, they conduct their strange, very strange stories.
In the farm where she lives, among the araucarias, the girl defies the imposing presence of its father and enters the old cabin, where it is faced with a disturbing truth.
A woman wakes up at a strange house. She had a bad dream and now she needs to organize the fragments of this dream to know what is real.
Pietro, a retired man, lives with his dog. When the dog dies, Pietro becomes unmotivated without the companion of the animal. One day he decides to go to a senior ball where he meets a lonely lady like him.
2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable society into a regenerative planetary culture. This can be achieved through a personal and global change of consciousness and the systemic implementation of ecological design.
Paulo Coelho is the world’s most translated living author, his books having sold over 165 million copies. But he was not always the inspirational global phenomenon he is today. Like the heroes in his spiritual classics THE ALCHEMIST and THE PILGRIMAGE, he long-searched for his calling, flirting with death, escaping madness, falling in love, and making rock ’n’ roll history in Brazil, all-the-while striving for success as a writer. A wild ride through a lifetime of stranger-than-fiction adventures, PAULO COELHO’S BEST STORY is a profoundly moving film that goes straight to the heart of the most beloved literary guru of our time, revealing the most incredible wonder of all: the man behind the masterpieces.
Lucas devotes his life to church work after a tragedy. When an exorcism case gets out of control, he has to figure out who is under the Devil's influence.
A Guarani girl begins to question her place in the world.
How much does urban space influence our interior space?
After 20 years of marriage, Ana Lúcia and her husband Fábio decide to get a divorce. Fábio, however, decides to move to an apartment across the street, in front of the window of his former apartment - where Lúcia still lives. Both will have to learn how to deal with job crisis, problems with their daughter and this whole new situation.
Conceição Tavares is one of the most forceful, critical and original voices of Brazilian economic thought. This documentary gives an account of her life and work, while taking stock of more than half a century of a country looking for a future.
The day a man almost runs-over a puppy, he meets the love of his life. The couple and their dog live the dream, until she wants out.
The story of three friends, talking about love and past relationships as they go out on a night in São Paulo.
Vampires rule the world for thousand years disguised as wealthy humans, while humanity has been relegated to middle-class, poor and miserable. Hopekillers use the suffering within the human blood to process their technology.
Zu, a twelve-year-old boy on the way to buy flour for his mother, winds up in the clutches of armed paramilitary narcotics officers.
A series of surreal events highlights the malaise of a young woman facing the rituals of marriage.
Isolation colonies kept thousands of leprosy patients inmates. In Brazil, hundreds of them still remain in these institutions where they were compulsorily taken from a policy based on secular prejudice and hygienist methods.
Multitalented performer Clarice Falcão packs a year of ideas into one special with songs, skits and jokes dedicated to each month on the calendar.
Osvaldão, a guerrilla leader, is hidden in the woods with guns in his hands, pursued by thousands of soldiers. He is feared by the military dictatorship and adored by the people. The film tells the trajectory of this boxing champion who became commander of the Araguaia Guerrilla.
A collection of three short stories and one poem by Edgar Allan Poe adapted for the screen. Berenice, Morella, The Raven and Ligea like never before seen on film. The movies explore the sensuality, the opium driven dreams and the horror which are the essence of Poe's works. A visually stunning work by the same makers of horror-indie-hit 'Morgue Story'.
Reveals the real, day-to-day life of penitentiary officers from São Paulo, Brazil.
One day, Eduardo arrives at his house and discovers that Julia, his wife, tried to commit suicide. She left her husband and two children without saying goodbye. After some time, she comes back home. He tries everything to set her straight, but the impossibility of knowing her fully grieves him. The shadow of the suicide and the inevitable ghost of a new chance hover over their heads. Eduardo insists on understanding his wife, but an increasing jealousy and an unexpected discovery of her past torture him. He does not realize that, most of the time, the search for control easily becomes an obsession.
This communist and parliamentarian leader was arrested and tortured, and became famous for having written the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla". Greatest name of the left-wing militancy in Brazil in the 1960s, Carlos Marighella acted in the main political events of Brazil between the 1930s and 1969 and was considered enemy number one of the Brazilian military dictatorship. His life was a great act of resistance and courage.
The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous way of life amidst the region's massive deforestation. Living deep in the rainforest, Pakyî and Tamandua live off the land relying on a machete, an ax, and a torch lit in 1998.
Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.
Gloria Polk is a decadent writer who decided to return to writing a fiction book after 17 years of absence. One day, she decides to open her home to Carol, a young journalist who lives in his building and is married to her former husband. Excited about the opportunity, Carol realizes that Gloria has an obscure facet which meant that she had great difficulty in relating to other people over the years.
The trajectory of the Brazilian punk band Plebe Rude is told in an acid and good-humored tone. Through internal dialogues, the members and contemporary characters of the phonographic industry expose differences, exorcise hurts and analyze how changes in the Brazilian scenario in recent years. The group draws a musical panorama from the events of the 70s and 80s, the group's most successful period alongside the biggest names in national rock.
No man is a failure when he has friends.
A celebration of the centenary of the writer, journalist and democracy activist Antonio Callado. The documentary describes the life story and works of this writer who always sought to understand Brazil. In the early days, he believed in the myth of a country focused on its origins, on the Indians and the fight for freedom. Afterwards, he recognized that he had lived a useless passion and became disenchanted. But his work has the characteristics of a continuous account of the struggles of the common man, in search of love and a better life.
In an arid and poor region of Brazil, bikers search for a miracle to make it rain and save the land, risking their lives.
Julia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke up, Julia is thrown into a desperate, painful process. Her life and her values have been tinged with unbearable melancholy and her life's measure seems reduced to out-of-focus fragments of her memories. Her inner turmoil and conflicts hamper a process now made necessary - that of readapting to her new life. It is impossible for her to disguise her pain when she attempts to narrate emotions.
Grounded in his room for having done a thousand and one antics at his school in recent days, Thomas - a boy stuck with a bully - is faced with a mysterious book left by his sister in his room. When reading the book's name aloud, "Tell Your Story or Deliver Your Soul," Thomas begins a fantastic and terrifying journey that will make him reflect on the disrespectful way he treats his friends and schoolmates.
The thriller "Damned Memory" tells the story of Yoko (Leticia Takara) who lost her memory recently. Cintia (Mariusa Bregoli) tries to help her remember. Strange events occur in the house during the night, causing horror to friends and to all who enters there. Yoko has strange visions pounding in her mind and it says something inhabits her house beyond Cintia and her. Gradually, Yoko will recover, but what comes up are memories that must never be remembered.
The feature film ' The Birth Reborn' portrays the serious obstetric reality in the world, which is characterized by an alarming number of cesarean or deliveries with traumatic and unnecessary interventions, as opposed to what is known and recommended by science today. This situation has serious perinatal, psychological, social, anthropological and financial consequences. Through the reports of some of the leading experts in the area and the latest scientific discoveries, the film questions the current obstetric model, leads to a reflection on the new paradigm of the twenty-first century and the future of a civilization born without the so-called 'love hormones', released only under specific conditions of labor.
During Christmas lunch, two boys plan to sacrifice a bully relative to an imaginary god who lives in a well.
A librarian founds a copy of the fabled Necronomicon, only unleash hell on earth.
Hermano is a doctor who plans to climb a dangerous mountain. He feels guilty about the death of his best friend and needs a test of courage. But Hermano's wife reveals that she is pregnant and he needs to make a decision.
Six teenagers go through life changing events while they try to keep a very strong friendship with each other.
Film director Petter and special effects specialist Alexandre join forces to produce a new film: You, Dead. The characters in this production are dead people, who serve as a mold for the believable masks of their faces. Anyone is subject to being a character in Petter Baiestorf's movie.
During one night, a woman walks through Rio de Janeiro, and hears the music around: jazz, rock, eletronica...
Through rare and precious footages and gigs with great artists such as Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Hermeto Pascoal, Djavan, Nara Leao, Luiz Gonzaga, among many others, "Dominguinhos" reveals this genius of Brazilian music, creator of a deeply authentic, universal and contemporary work. The film values the sensory cinematic experience, a journey driven by Dominguinhos his own.
After her husband loses his job, Helena opens her own grocery store. Soon, increasingly strange events begin to plague her store, making her question her sanity.
During a night of boredom, two friends dive in the mystery of a childhood event that puts the safety of their memory and everything that surrounds them in check.
Adaptation of Herman Melville’s work Bartleby, the Scrivener. The head of a public office in Brasília hires a new employee named Bartleby, who initially seems to be the solution to all his problems.
Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.
The passing of the years is merciless for everyone. In the film, seven seemingly ordinary characters lead their lives seeking, each one, what they believe brings personal satisfaction. But, even with different and distant lives, they come closer by the way they guide their existence based on worldly concerns.
He never knew how to leave and she never learned to ignore him. The reunion in three small parts.