During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, two strangers connect through emails, sharing their experiences of isolation. Between empty streets and open windows, the town plots an encounter.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, two strangers connect through emails, sharing their experiences of isolation. Between empty streets and open windows, the town plots an encounter.
Mario and Gabriel meet one night. Mario goes to a political demonstration. Gabriel wants the divine manifestation. The street is the only possible stage for the two.
Part of a series of short documentaries about black musicians and singers made in the 1970s, it portrays Luiz Melodia in the intimacy of his life and the close relationship with his family and friends in the favela of Estácio, as well as stories about his career.
32-year-old Janete has her life on hold. With her dad ( a reformed colonel from the military police) facing a death state in the hospital, she does nothing but spend his last days beside him. While waiting for the inevitable end of this painful journey, Janete writes incessantly, sometimes on her laptop, sometimes on a notebook.
The life of a Lebanese immigrant through 50 years in Brazil.
Moraes has a crush over a men in uniform.
After the death of his wife, Paul finds himself trapped in a world where the only connection established is by waves electromagnetic, murdering interpersonal relationships. Paul wants to break free from loneliness, until he finally meets Sofia.
What remains for me is to promote my own ruin. Aware of inevitable loneliness, the incarnation of cruelty.
The history of the famous Brazilian bantam and featherweight world champion Eder Jofre, who tries to deal with his personal life and the obligations of a world class athlete, with the mentoring of his trainer and father Kid Jofre.
Documentary short film about the director, Leonardo Raimundi, and his trip to São Paulo, Brazil, alongside his friends on September 2023.
An anguished woman awaits her love. A film is made about this. The parallels between the love between the woman and the film team are interspersed and show how this feeling can be both a pain and a joy.
See through the eyes of a young actor ready to take on the world.
Simeão is a good and simple man but a little too lively for a small city in the middle of Brazil. The most respectable citizens of this town start to think about how they are going to kick him out.
Dório faces the end of a life full of errors and regrets, Marco only lives to see where life will lead him to, Almeida wants to take justice into his own hands. They all meet in an unique kind of moment, «the right moment».
Birth, life and death of a carnival sculpture. Linked to the mythology of the Orixás, a metaphor of creation based on the Babalotim doll, a boy idol who has lived through many carnivals.
2064. Cora, a Danish woman, finds an unfinished documentary in which Benjamim, her Brazilian father, attempted - fifty years earlier - to investigate the story of his own parents: Teo, who, afflicted by insanity, died when he was still a child, and Elenir, a mysterious woman he’d barely heard of. In the course of his investigation, Benjamim discovers that both characters are part of a complex family puzzle, filled with traumas and taboos, and starts seeing himself as an important piece in the puzzle. The footage found in Benjamim’s documentary is reorganized by his daughter, Cora, in an attempt to understand her family’s lost past.
An Ivory Thorn is a story adapted from the universe of Marina Colasanti's wonderful tales. In the plot, a King obstinate in the hunt for a rare animal, a unicorn, and a princess's passion for her father's object of desire. Dilemma that sometimes, even fairy tales are not able to solve.
Iara, a beautiful young woman, sometimes described as having green hair, light brown or copper-colored skin (as that of an Indigenous Amerindian from Brazil) and brown eyes, connected to a fish body…typically thought of as a Mermaid. When she felt a man around she would start to sing gently to lure him. Once under the spell of the Iara, a man would leave his family to live with her underwater forever. Iara is a free interpretation of this old tale, but this time with a Sapphic twist.
A short film about Brazilian underground filmmaking of the late 1960s and 1970s, known as the "Cinema Marginal" movement.
“When the curtain opened, under a colorful universe of feathers and sequins, she appeared on the stage, snaking lascivious movements, to the sound of a rumba or a merengue”. Piu Piu, as the actor, set designer and costume designer Elpídio Lima was known, is considered the oldest transformist in Recife. In the 1950s and 1960s, he performed at the Barreto Junior Company, on the stages of the Almare and Morroco theaters. He was one of the creators of the Companhia Tra-la-lá, a swish theater and liked to imitate the singers and actresses Sarita Montiel and Carmem Miranda.
In the past, when white people didn’t exist, we used to hunt with our yãmĩyxop spirits. The whites came, cut down the trees, dried up the rivers and scared the animals away. Today, our tall trees are over, the whites surrounded us and our lands are tiny. But our yãmĩyxop are very strong and taught us the stories and chants from our ancients who walked around here.
Janaína is an actress in crisis as she witnesses the collapse of a country. There seems to be no way out, but there's still something to be done.
The theater, the actress, the actor: a love-hate relationship, a dispute, performances, the stage and life.
I love you! Says the wind to everything he touches. I love you and you are part of me.
Years after the breakup, Ana and Théo meet again and Ana offers her ex-boyfriend a ride home. Along the way, they fill the silence by talking about the past and what could have been.
A teenager tests his limits by attending a costume party, where his anxiety manifests itself in the form of a looming shadow.
Documentary explores the life stages of different people.
A tender homage to singer Elza Soares, a symbol of the struggle of black women in Brazil since the early 1960s. In an intimate atmosphere, Elza is interviewed together with different friends, like Maria Bethânia and Paulinho da Viola, with whom she performs songs about love, religion and social inequality. Be prepared for one of the most striking voices you have ever heard.
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.
The story of a legendary figure in Brazilian culture, the multifaceted Carlos Imperial. He was a convinced womanizer and cafajeste, he was a director and actor, created TV shows, composed songs like “Vem Quente que Eu Estou Fervendo” and “Mamãe Passou Açúcar em Mim”. In addition, he is responsible for launching big names in Brazilian music, such as Roberto Carlos, Elis Regina and Tim Maia.
SATELLITES is a documentary about the passion for soccer told through the points-of-view of characters who were following somehow the final match of the Brazilian Soccer Cup. The film moves the focus from the game to the field's margins, to the fans, to outside the stadium. The movie intends to capture the tension, atmosphere and charm of a final match. SATELLITES translates, based on images captured during that game, the sensation of being at the stadium watching the game with no images of the game itself.
A man awakes in an abandoned shed.Confused, he finds itself tied to a chair. Standing in front of him is an unknown man, who begins a weird speech about his unique professional ethics, until the conversation rovers to a new and tense situation.
A young man decides to leave his troubled farming village for the city. Desperate, the girl who loves him will do anything to solve the town's problems and convince him to stay, even give herself to another man.
Freud studies Lacan's head while Lacan dismembers Freud's ear and the philosophy of butchery takes shape in academic intellectual dementia. They both say in chorus: "The truth can only be told in the fabric of fiction. Those who want it don't go crazy. Love is giving what you don't have to someone who doesn't want it. I think where I am not; therefore, I am where I don't think myself."
A young man from Brasilia struggles to connect with his autistic brother. His quest for understanding leads him to study music therapy in Argentina and traditional music in India.
A black essay on trains, beaches and space occupation.
A story full of mysteries and emotions. In this continuation of the webseries, Viih Tube and her gang need to find out who is the Anonymous Recanto, which is spreading the secrets of the school through social networks.
Memories of Maura tells the story of a familiar relationship seen by the point of view of Alice, an eight years old girl, that had to move with her parents to her grandma's house Maura, that suffers with a degenerative disease. In this context Alice will have to deal with this new reality.
Nossa Chape tracks the rebuilding of the Chapecoense football club in Brazil after an airplane carrying the team crashed on November 28th, 2016, and left all but three of the players dead.
Documentary on the life and times of one of the most prominent Brazilian samba composers, Cartola (Angenor de Oliveira).