A documentary about an intinerant amusement park that travels through the poor Brazilian Northeast and the hardships faced by the people around it.
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A documentary about an intinerant amusement park that travels through the poor Brazilian Northeast and the hardships faced by the people around it.
Narcissus, a black boy from the periphery, gets a magic lamp and asks the genie to be seen white by white people and black by black people.
The planning of the city, linking its architecture to its topography and the reasons that allow it to have normal and continuous traffic, eliminating the circulation problems of all major cities. Details of the buildings destined for the Government, the residences and the commerce. (Brazilian Cinematheque)
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.
Passing through the mountains of Ouro Preto, through a peaceful rural area, through the heart of the metropolis Belo Horizonte and also through its periphery, each character in “Liberdade, though belated” lives a different reality. Elisa hides a great sin, João carries the pain of a loss, Felipe lives continuous nights of torment and Rosana, the anguish of protecting her best friend from an abusive relationship. Their conflicts are distinct, but the longing for freedom is what unites them.
An off-color joke nearly cost him everything. Brazilian comic Rafinha Bastos talks about that and much more, from his divorce to finding love again.
The life of Italian Brazilian ethnographic and stage photographer Emidio Luisi, through testimonies of friends and colleagues, and the showing of his works.
Tete is a cat fascinated by art, skateboarding, and her city, Rio de Janeiro. On a late summer afternoon, bored with the monotony of her room, she hits the streets for an adventure on wheels. Rolling past various tourist spots, dribbling around cars, and riding down hills, the kitten finds her peace. However, Tete didn't expect a mysterious portal right in the middle of the skatepark. Distracted while doing a trick, she falls into the hole and travels through different dimensions of animation. Confused and scared of losing the trace of her identity, a new adventure begins for Tete: finding her way back home.
Zuzu Zero, the Angry Eagle from the Agunia team. The story of this emblematic persona is mixed with one of the most traditional parades from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro: The Agunia do Sapê.
Maria lives in Manaus and is 19 years old. She is a student of education and a transvestite. She likes people and the city where she lives, but walks with her eyes downcast. She feels ignored. What kind of woman is she? Based on these feelings and questions, the film paints a portrait of the complexity of the trans experience in a country like Brazil.
A millionaire lives in a sinister cottage where strange events unfold. A damned creature, he transforms himself in a werewolf and leads a following whose adepts spread horror and despair in the neighboring city, becoming themselves a clan of assassins. One day, the werewolf confronts Branca Justiça (White Justice), who summons benign forces to scathe them and frees him of his own wickedness.
In São Paulo, during the 1920s, a woman who is loved by a telegraphist and seduced by a slacker ends up in prostitution.
A complex children's fable about world domination with homage to classic black and white horror films and monsters.
Experimental film by Haroldo Marinho Barbosa.
A granddaughter gives a new meaning to her grandma's death through previously unspoken memories.
A boy passes his christimas alone in his house and starts being hauting.
After a tough day at work, Alberto just wants to go home and show his wife his new tattoo: "Célia everlasting love", but his sister unexpectedly arrives and needs a place to stay.
H2Obby tells the story of Hobby, a very curious little dog that develops a friendship with an ice cube. However, with the evolution of the facts, keeping this recently created bond becomes a challenge. Will Hobby succeed?
The documentary offers an overview on the transformations in the Brazilian socioeconomic process from the 30s to present day, with a group of economists and historians giving their commentary about the topics.
Digital signal cubist light music. Partly based on Bruno Corra's futurist essay "Abstract Cinema: Chromatic Music".
Manfredo seeks out a psychiatrist. The doctor insists on knowing his past, but there is something that Manfredo doesn't want to reveal and he abandons treatment. Dr. Pink starts to chase Manfredo and his life turns into hell.
A small-scale romantic love story, shot with a digital camera in black & white and in a documentary style. We follow the conversation between two lovers, each on a different side of the world; he is in Recife, she is in Kyiv. On one side is dark, on the other light, but both experience the same emotions and hence feel nearness and contact.
“Flash” is a post-industrial play with a touch of stochastic Freudian genealogy that has been to all the royal theaters and opera houses - then back to trashy punk clubs and now churches...
In a forgotten corner of the vast Brazilian bureaucracy, a psychotic boss uses a time machine to enslave his lazy employees and increase productivity.
The documentary "Chico e as Cidades" was directed by José Henrique Fonseca in 2001 and re-released by Biscoito Fino in June 2009 with three previously unreleased extras: Cecília's music video and takes of the songs "Injuriado" and "Futures Amantes." The DVD was made from the show "As Cidades" – premiered by Chico in 1999, based on the repertoire from the album of the same name. However, far from being a video version of the show, it is a documentary that covers various themes from the composer's life and work, as well as special appearances by Maria Bethânia, Jamelão, Oscar Niemeyer, Tostão, and the Velha Guarda da Mangueira.
In 1968, Brazil’s military government convened the National Security Council to enact Institutional Act No. 5, ushering in the most violent period of the dictatorship. The meeting was recorded, but remained secret for decades. The filmmakers delved into the archives and now reveal the recordings.
Record of the rehearsal of the band Amsanctus in which the actor and film editor from Canibal, E.B. Toniolli, played. The master of the document, lasting about 30 minutes, was not found. The work was partially recovered from the feature "The Cannibals-Mabusiânus also dance Vol. 1" where it had been partially used.
Two sisters love to have fun, but they are always scolded by their older sister.
An intimate look at the history of Brazilian drivers from the '70s to the '90s, an era in which Brazil dominated Formula 1 racing, from the colorful point of view of its protagonists, especially Fittipaldi, Piquet and Senna, but without forgetting the drivers who failed to reach the profession's pinnacle, and the many behind-the-scenes helpers.
Tião, 5 years old, seeks to understand the events involving his family at that time. Including his mother's illness that takes her away from him.
The movie is a collage and comentary of varied third party footage on news relating to each and every one of the eight Presidents of Brazil who took office since the end of the military government, from José Sarney to Jair Bolsonaro.
Two adventurers try to remove a stone to find a great treasure.
In the city of Cajamar, in the middle of ruined nature, lonely characters deal with the police, rodeos and mysterious fires.
Small great events of a family summer in the countryside.
Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one of the founding myths of the native people from the border between Brazil-Venezuela-Guiana, first captured in the writings of the German ethnographer Koch-Grünberg at the beginning of the 1910s. With interviews in Portuguese, German, Spanish, and in the indigenous languages Macuxi and Taurepang, Searching for Macunaima reclaims this amazing character who represents Brazil in many ways (from literature to cinema to theatre) and remains relevant to date.
Mother and son are the last survivors of an tradicional family in Brazil northeast.
Cinema in 7 Colors traces an historical panorama of how the queer people were portrayed in the Brazilian silver screens, from its origin in the chanchadas of the 1950s up to the present day. The film investigates the origins of the prejudices, stereotypes, as well as the importance of the identification with constructive representations of these characters.