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In the Brazilian megacity São Paulo athletes from around the world run the traditional New Year's marathon. At the same time in an Amazonian jungle backwater 19-year-old Jô is running like a world champion. He has skipped town with the generous New Year's collection from the church and is being followed by the out-of-breath town sheriff Rui, a fan of the marathon. By pure luck he manages to capture Jô. Rui may have missed the race on TV, but not talented runner Jô. In the cell sit Jô and a dream. He trains Jô for a year until he is at his peak performance. They then make the long journey to São Paulo. Sheriff Rui sends his prisoner and marathon man Jô into the big race, the legendary New Year's marathon of 1999, the race into the year 2000. Surprises await.

A raw report from Rio de Janeiro shows how poor residents fight for space and dignity on beaches often treated as exclusive, exposing the social tensions behind a seemingly simple day at the sea.

Fifteen years after their split, a man and woman reconnect during a chance encounter and reconsider their new loves and lives.

Many memories, some uncertainties, four young people and a soccer tournament.

At a romantic dinner, a couple begins to observe the table next to them, as they suspect a killer is lurking. But first, they need to reach a consensus. Is he really a killer?

Orphaned young man turns into a werewolf on full moon nights, causing panic in a small country town.

Green covers a wandering planet in cosmic time-space

Selminha is back! Now wealthy and willing to pay generously for all her needs and desires. The problem is that a poor person’s happiness is brief: a namesake heir appears claiming that she is the legitimate inheritor and Selminha’s assets are frozen. Her only source of income becomes a minimum wage salary of R$30 per day. However, Selminha has already forgotten how to live the hardships of poverty. And worst, she is the patron of the Quintino community, and with her financial difficulties, the community also feels the squeeze.

Ricardo is 10 years old, lives in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and has nightmares about Velho do Saco, sort of a Brazilian bogeyman, “who takes out the eyes of misbehaving children”. It is not easy to distinguish truths and lies when the loss of innocence is confused with the loss of sight.

The scientist Udo Gierer is on the trail of Theodor Koch-Grünberg, the famous Amazon researcher at the beginning of our century. While traveling on a river steamboat, he meets and becomes friends with 14 year old José Junior. He takes José with him on a flight over the rain forest and tells the boy about the importance of the Amazon as the lung of the world.

After a tough breakup, Caio starts a bizarre rice experiment to test the power of love and hate. What begins as a self-help project spirals into obsession and delusion. As his mental state decays with the rice, the line between experiment and emotional collapse blurs.

In 1989, a chance meeting with his trans neighbour Joana gives teenager Carlos a glimpse into the possibility of queer futures. When the two meet again years later, a great friendship emerges across generations

A filming exercise becomes a memory of young Nico's crush and fall for his classmate, Iris.

Leandra is in her mid-30s: she wants to get married and have children, but she does not have a boyfriend. Her sister, Sonia, is married and has two children, but all she wants is a night of fun with her best friend, Marinati - a workaholic lawyer who went to fall in love just when her career is on the rise. Marinati is Keka's boss, who is looking forward to the trip she's scheduled to save her marriage.

Keyla the police officer and the unprepared detective Claudio could not be more incompatible. However they are forced to form a duo to solve the series of mysterious murders that are happening in the quiet city of Joinlândia.

Helena Maria Balbinot, a countryside teacher from the south of Brazil, exchanged letters during 24 years with Brazilian modernist poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. The movie reveals part of these letters. Through scenes of poetry and extreme beauty, this friendship is reinvented in the audience eyes. A meeting between the poems of Drummond and the particular universe of Helena Maria.

A priest and his intern go to the Filbergues family home to check a case of possession.

"Clandestine Soul" is a sensory and emotional biography of the Brazilian political activist, Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcellos.

Francisco is a young man who loves to dance, but life has imposed other obligations on him. Between taking care of his mother and being responsible for the family glass shop, he has to deal with the memories of the past and the dilemmas of following his dream as a dancer. When family ties are broken, he sets out on a personal and artistic journey, rediscovering in dance the way to face his traumas and find his self.

The mother is dying, the father has never cared. The two sisters Ana and Ju, however, remain strong and in solidarity with each other - even if the world around them collapses and asteroids fall from the sky.

In 1970, at the height of repression by the military dictatorship, five imprisoned guerrillas came to the public to renounce the armed struggle and praise the regime. With the repercussion of the declarations, the government decided to transform the retractions into a State practice. He started to torture opponents to make mea-culpa. Until 1975, around forty prisoners participated in the “repentances”, as they became known. Os Arrependidos recounts the little-remembered story of former militants who, very young, dropped everything to risk their lives for a cause, were arrested and tortured, and became a propaganda weapon for their enemies.

The adventures of a gang of thieves and murderers led by violent Caveirinha. A radical disruption proposal from the postulates of the Cinema Novo, a film with a loose narrative structure. Through the actions of a group of outlaws, the director sews in scenes that propose iconoclasm and elation as forms of opposition to the military dictatorship oppression.

An obsessive photographer crazy for female feet; a man that projects himself on situations he sees on TV; a simple public officer that receives a proposal from a corrupt Judge; a slaughter in a marriage crisis and a broken heart secretary that dreams to get married. These five characters will have their lives changed from a hot weekend.

Based on the historical fact of the arrival of the Portuguese royal family to Rio de Janeiro in 1808, Cidade Invisível proposes an upside-down archeology when questioning the myth of the Marvelous City and the irreverence of the Carioca.

The special brings the continuation of the plot starring Gilda and Lúcia in the series 'Amor e Sorte'. After a period of forced coexistence due to social isolation, they face a new reality.

Toni has his mind set to the 70's, when he was the king of the dance floors and used to date Vera. Nowadays, lonely and disillusioned, he always visits the disco where he used to dance, now abandoned - until the day he is bound to face ghosts from the past.

An intimate drama about an aging war veteran forced into a retirement home, where he confronts the ghosts of his past and forms an unexpected bond with his Black caregiver.

Spanning 10 years and 10,000 miles, One Day We Arrived in Japan shows the stories of three Brazilian families who set off to Japan in search of a better future – a mother and daughter, a young couple, and a family of four with a small child. The film captures the passage of time, forming layers of memory and revealing how the families’ dreams and expectations stand up to a grueling new reality on the other side of the world. Since 1990, hundreds of thousands of Brazilians of Japanese descent have gone to Japan to work. This unique documentary brings to light the gripping personal stories behind a major transnational phenomenon.

A relationship coach questions her professional capacities when a person from her past resurfaces.

Lysergy slices hovering under cathode tubes

A documentary showing how carnaval is recieved by the tradicional gaúchos people and the struggles for the festivaty to have recognicion on its own.

Short film about schemers involved in Brazilian politics and how they cannot have confidence in each other. They are more violent than Italian mafia, as it was said.

Luz and Denise grow up in the midst of the adversities of being LGBT in the extreme south of the city of São Paulo. Between Vogue and poetry, from church to city access. The dreams and uncertainties of youth flood their existences.

Afonsinho, Paulo Cézar Caju and Nei Conceição started their careers in the mid-1960s, a time of strong political repression in Brazil. Originally teammates of a celebrated generation of the Botafogo football team superstars, they did not give up their freedom when the military dictatorship decided to take control of the field.