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Based on the well-known poem by Jayme Caetano Braun, Bochincho, O Filme tells the story of an old man who, together with business partners, evokes his memories of a picturesque episode of his past in Rio Grande do Sul.
An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.
A couple discusses their first night and relationship.
Famous gunman Judas is hired to avenge the death of the city mayor, but his plans take an unexpected turn when he falls in love with the daughter of the colonel he is supposed to assassinate. Amidst the unfolding drama, the police attempt to broker a deal with those involved, but the arrival of the colonel’s nephew, an engineer with plans to build a dam in Degredo, disrupts the delicate balance.
In this short film made of a single sequence shot, a man drives through the city streets, talking on the phone while trying to find a way to move forward, but the past is a restless passenger.
A man is found dead. 8 women are the suspects.
How to arouse a numb people who had everything, who had bought all the dreams that money can buy and knew it had been a bargain? [J.C.Ballard]
O Aleijadinho, a study of the work of Antonio Francisco Lisboa, the architect whose cathedral de Andrade had assisted in the restoration of more than 20 years earlier. de Andrade dedicated the film to his father, who had sent him on the expedition.
The story of two famous surgeons who are led, under mysterious circumstances, into the presence of an even more mysterious personality.
At a bar, a lonely mantells the story of the incredible romance he has just lived to three strangers.
A man sitting alone at a table drinks his coffee and feels a strange sensation coming from his chest. Maybe it's nothing, or maybe a sinister urge is rising from within his body.
Fred is a blind boy who lives alone with his mother. Out of his dull routine, in which nothing ever changes, he speculates continually about the color of things and claims to prefer the color white, which represents for him everything that is unattainable.
A believer, when reading the bible, feels the power of God entering his body, and fights against the Holy Ghost in the holy battle of metalanguage.
Maria Adelaide, a simple woman from the Northeast, discovers in the great city of Rio de Janeiro an identity that remained hidden.
This intimate look at a São Paulo birth center features interviews with mothers, activists, doctors and midwives. Third in a series of films.
A heated episode in Nicolas and Natália's Christmas Eve, two siblings need to organize the decorations and the feast on time before their parents arrival. And just like that, racing against time to execute everything perfectly for Christmas, the siblings come to the realization that they'll need to deal with much more than the preparations, but their relationship with fraternity.
O Mistério do Taurus 38 is a collection of four episodes of the TV series O Vigiante Rodoviário, starring Inspector Carlos and his faithful canine companion, Lobo.
The film features biographical data on one of the most popular Brazilian poets -- CASIMIRO DE ABREU.
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.
The film is the life of a woman from birth to death. All scenes will be real. The character will be lived by several people, of different ages, in different regions of the country. Filmed as a documentary, it will be transformed into fiction through the manipulation of images.
Obsessed with the practical effects of classic cinema, an amateur director decides to orchestrate a real building explosion for his next film.
In the mind, which is fertile soil, memory takes root, and the seed is the mystery of the enchantment between heaven and earth. Through the subtlety of a simple encounter in the city of Cachoeira, two generations sow this wisdom.
“From Love no one Escapes” is a documentary that portrays the interior of a Brazilian prison where a humanized system of incarceration, known as APAC, allows the absence of prison guards and weapons. After becoming volunteers in the prison and residing for more than a month under the semi-open regime, the documentarists recorded the daily life behind bars, inviting prisoners and employees of APAC to open their hearts and share their stories and perceptions about life. The documentary is mostly composed by informal conversations that portray different aspects of the lives of incarcerated individuals, such as spirituality, family life, work, music and the desire for freedom.
A baby is born, but does not cry. A body screams and is not heard. Paints that run in a promised future do not reach a person with a disability. Victor makes himself the canvas in a universe of absent painters.
A dark forest, a castle in ruins, two medieval knights and a diabolic creature from times immemorial. Based on the horror comic by Antonio Rodrigues and Julio Shimamoto, a legend among Brasilian comic artists.
On April 26, 2014 Douglas Pereira, a dancer, was killed by the police. The film documents the protests following his death.
In this visual essay, Ana Costa Ribeiro uses personal archives to delve into the adventurous, relatively short life of her grandfather Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro, a pioneer in experimental physics in Brazil in the middle of the last century. He was the discoverer of the thermodielectric effect: “something to do with lightning,” as it was explained in a child’s terms to his granddaughter.
In the 19th century, bandits massacre the inhabitants of a farmhouse. One hundred years later, it is turned into a hotel and the murderers and their victims are reincarnated as the guests. Strange phenomena and death soon occur.
"Dull and uneventful days in my owner's house make life seem calm." It's what Dona Vanuza's cat thinks, day after day in the matron's senile routine. A feeling that ends when they feel their owner's delirious grief starts taking over.
To pursue the woman of dreams, there are lovers capable of delving into a strange journey - through all the genres and styles that cinema has invented to represent the greatest of all arts: the art of passion.
A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights her mother, puts her son in anarchy, has a date with Santa Claus, a blue bear and two girlfriends. Then she finally meets her old millionaire lover. They spend their time to talk about everyday life and make love. Based on the novels of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Wilhelm Reich.
The DVD originated in an unforgettable encounter of MPB (Braziliam Popular Music) icons in a show held in the theater of FECAP in São Paulo, Brazil. Names like Roberto Menescal, João Donato, Dori Caymmi, Monica Salamso, Zé Renato, his daughters Clara Moreno and Ana Martins, Leila Pinheiro and Francis Hime participated as Joyce's guests at the event, which coincides with the year in which the Bossa Nova turns 50 years of existence.
After waking from a coma, Tino learns his future in-laws have given him a high-powered financial job, for which he is woefully unqualified.
The film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill worker.
Diane Obomsawin's whimsical animated short follows medicine man Walk-in-the-forest on a walk in the woods that leads to the discovery of an intriguing secret world.
A record of the fight for legal abortion based on the Brazilian, Argentine and Colombian experiences.
Made for Somewhere From Here to Heaven, exhibition at Askuna Zentroa, Bilbao.
Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations.
Presented as a forbidden TV broadcast, this horror anthology revives unsettling short films from the world.