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French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her?

Pacific, a documentary, is entirely constructed from images taken by passengers on a cruise ship which is bound for one of the most beautiful natural settings in Brazil, the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha. The seven days of the voyage are recorded by the lenses of the tourists who film everything, all the time. By casting its eyes on how the characters see things, the film is revealed to be an essay on the production of images in contemporary society and their political implications. In addition it throws the spotlight on a reflection on Brazilian society, using a social group rarely seen and one that is well beyond the stereotypes commonly observed in documentaries.

Prostitutes of old age make their living in Praça da Luz, in São Paulo. Unusual and surprising accounts of five women who reveal in detail their experiences in all these years of profession.

Ulisses has failed in his professional life, but leads a happy life with his wife Ângela and their two daughters. Until the day he is introduced to Bárbara, a very beautiful woman living in Rio de Janeiro. Ângela becomes her friend and gives her the dress Ulisses had given her. From then on, marital problems arise, and he becomes increasingly attracted to Bárbara.

Ela returns to her country to reconnect with friends and herself. Disoriented, she must choose between the unattainable love, that of the Brazilian singer with whom she has fallen in love from a distance, and her real love, the one that she has just found in Noé.

Like a burning fuse, the desire for the streets of the sleeping city and its flashes shines in the eyes of casual spectators. An exchange of looks on the bus and the rest is just animation. A short film that portrays the strange harmony between strangers, the conversations after sex, when you are just getting to know each other.

Loki brings the trajectory of Arnaldo Baptista from childhood, passing through the most successful phase as leader of the Mutantes, marriage to singer Rita Lee and then separation. He also goes through the depression that devastated his life after the group ended and that led him to attempt suicide, his solo career, rapprochement with his brother and member of the Mutantes, Sérgio Dias, culminating in the band's return in 2006.

"Why is it that I've never lived in one sector definitively? Because I feel bad. I feel bad about the air of one place." Tarabatara is a call to daily life and the charms of a gypsy family from the hinterland of Alagoas. The documentary captures moments of a period of pause in the nomadism of these gypsies. In the figure of the eldest and their memories, in the women and children of the group, with their speeches and gestures, with their looks and tasks.

The documentary tells the Corinthians passion through one of his most famous moments, when the team, who was 23 years without a title, won the Campeonato Paulista final of 1977 against Ponte Preta. The Timão is and always will be the sole, the better. Win or lose. Same spirit that permeated the loyal fans and has only grown in the 23 years that the Corinthians were without titles.

Tribalistas were a short-lived but popular brazilian musical trio consisting of Marisa Monte, Arnaldo Antunes and Carlinhos Brown. Their one-off collaboration resulted in the popular album Tribalistas, released in Brazil in late 2002 by EMI and in international territories in 2003. The album attained considerable popularity despite the group never performing any song on TV or giving any radio interviews. A DVD release featuring the 'making of' and all the tracks on the album was also released internationally. The song "Já Sei Namorar" was featured on the video game FIFA Football 2004 and the song "Velha Infancia" was used in a soap opera in Brazil called "Mulheres Apaixonadas" as its main theme.

Video art made by Dellani Lima,

"É Dez" is the tenth studio album by Brazilian singer and presenter Eliana, released on August 30, 2002 by BMG, and produced by Guto Graça Mello. It was Eliana's first album to be released on DVD and VHS kit. It presents a story called "Eliana.com alegria", where Eliana is transported inside a computer and stay stuck there until the end of the story. There she meets several people, and also a Robot called "Ajuda".

In an enchanted world, five little princesses study at a magic school. Despite being diligent, Cindy, Bianca, Hime, Iriá and Zade always get into trouble.

Storyville visits a carnival in the Amazon.

He was taken away. And he wasn't alone.

Documentary depicting what happened to the characters in the film Terra para Rose, made by the same director. Shows the life of some 1500 families of landless rural laborers who, for the first time in 1985, occupied an unproductive large landholding, the Annoni plantation in Rio Grande do Sul. After camping out for years in tents, facing down the police and negotiating with the government, the former landless laborers have managed to turn their dream into reality, and are now successful small farmers.

Rio de Janeiro. September, 2008. Three men stalk the gloomy back-alleys of the city's notorious slums. Spiderman, a 28-year-old drug lord, embarks on a routine patrol through the shadowy streets of Coréia, the sprawling slum he controls. Inspector Leonardo Torres, a muscle-bound operative from Rio's drug squad, inches through the alleys of another shantytown, shots ringing out around him. And Pastor Dione, an evangelical preacher intent on ending Rio's drug conflict, trawls the slums for lost souls. With unprecedented access to some of Rio's most wanted men, Dancing with the Devil in the City of God tells the story of Rio's drug war through the eyes of three men locked into one of the bloodiest urban conflicts on earth. Written by Jon Blair and Tom Phillips

Biography of brazilian composer Aldir Blanc

Different costumers shop in a supermarket that sells words and ideas.

Lucio Costa is one of the rare personalities in the history of Brazil who allows him to cross his individual history with nation-building in a very natural and open way. The documentary narrates, through the trajectory of the architect and urban planner Lucio Costa, the process of "formation" of modern Brazilian architecture.

An award-winning doc focusing on the idea of "disappearance" in both fascist dictatorships and our own Western cultures.

Recorded in Salvador (Bahia), in 2004, this is the first DVD of the Brazilian sucessfull band "Babado Novo", with the singer Claudia Leitte as their vocalist. The album features hits from their first two albums, remakes from Roberto Carlos and Led Zeppelin, and new songs. The total repertoire consists of 29 songs. Three are 3 exclusive songs to the CD, while 9 are exclusive to the DVD.

Short film made from photographs taken by anthropologist and photojournalist Rogério Ferrari in Palestinian territories in 2002.

The story of one of the greatest stars of Brazilian cinema, Glauce Rocha.

Documentary about Brazilian poet Waly Salomão, for whom life was always a fictional film and poetry was a way to expose any naturalistic pretention. His convictions affected many friends like Antonio Cícero, Caetano Veloso and Carlos Nader, who documented Waly's life for 15 years. But how does one make a documentary about someone who believes everything is fiction?

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.

Taking as a starting point the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the Portuguese Royal Family in Brazil, the documentary “Carnaval para D. João VI” aims to address questions about the transformations that have occurred in the relationship between Brazilians and Portuguese since then. The film goes back to the disembarkation of the court while envisioning a globalized future where historical stereotypes are overcome and reinvented.

Brazil 1839. Aninha Ribeira da Silva, called Anita, is a bubbly and passionate 18-year girl, who dreams to leave the small town where she lives. All of the girl's dreams, however, fade away when Manuel, an aged craftsman who lives nearby, asks her to marry him and her mother persuades her to accept so that she can help support her family. While Anita sheds hot tears for that forced marriage a young Italian seaman, who had been sentenced to death by the Genoa martial court, lands in Rio de Janeiro.

"Cães" proposes a reflection around the socio-cultural heritage of the brazillian land structure, specifically the northeastern sertão, in which it has its support, in a system of land concentration, in the hands of a minority represented by the old rural oligarchies.

Argues the differences between men and women in the town of Cunha, Brazil. When the film was ready, it was shown for its main personages, whose reactions were included in its final version.

The truths and consequences of the actions of two siblings.

Using home movies and other media, a filmmaker returns to Sintra, Portugal to search for memories of her late husband, Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha.

Pitty explores the early 2000s rock scene in Bahia and do some covers for bands that she loves.

100% is a series consisting of compilations of various artists released by Som Livre. The compilation featuring the hit songs of the Brazilian musical band Banda Calypso up to that point was released on May 9, 2007, and brings together hits from their first three video albums: Ao Vivo, Banda Calypso na Amazônia, and Banda Calypso Pelo Brasil. The band's 100% achieved good commercial performance, receiving platinum disc certifications for DVD sales and gold disc certifications for CD sales, in addition to appearing on the list of best-selling DVDs in 2007, according to the Brazilian Association of Record Producers (ABPD), currently Pro-Música Brasil (PMB).

Every World Cup, Every winner.The next in the Super8 series, only bigger and better. Illusionary Lines has been with the World Cup circus for the entire journey capturing every winner of a World Cup ripping in an isolated and unique part of the globe. Travel to Africa, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland (Arctic circle), Germany, New Zealand, Scotland, Spain and Switzerland in a never ending journey to find the Illusionary Line.

Roupa Nova retorna à cena musical com versões acústicas para sucessos como "Whisky A Gogô", "Sapato Velho", "Dona", "Linda Demais" e "Volta Pra Mim". O álbum traz também as inéditas "Flor Da Pele", "Razão De Viver" e "Já Nem Sei Mais", além das participações de Ed Motta e Chitãozinho e Xororó. Com este disco, o grupo de sucesso dos anos 80 se lança em um novo século. Imperdível.

It is the story of a regular day when mother makes money working in the city and father work in the fields to keep their seven children.

Criticism of renowned filmmakers to the boycott of the 1976 Law that regulated the exhibition of short films in commercial movie theaters in Brazil. The success of the result of this Law fostered the production of films in this category that were very well received by the public. Olho no Olho is a denunciation of the colonialist power that strangles the national audiovisual media and aims to reformat the world in its image.

Two seventeen-year-olds go out at night looking for a good time in the streets of São Paulo and end up discovering a lot about them selves and their hidden feelings.