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Stunning espionage documentary on the US conspiracy that led to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson original White House tapes, and CIA Top Secret documents reveal how the US government planned to overthrow Brazilian elected president João Goulart.
Ivana Cornejo is just getting used to being single again after her divorce three years ago. After an exasperating call from her ex-husband, she throws her cell phone away. Fortunately, the man who finds it calls her to return it, and to her amusement they have an instant rapport. The man on the other end of the phone is León Godoy, a renowned architect with a charming voice and a charismatic personality. They schedule a date so that he can return the cell phone. When León arrives, Ivana is surprised: he is everything she had imagined, except for one unexpected and startling detail... he’s only 4'5" tall.
The result of more than ten years of research and using archival material, photos and videos recorded by the residents themselves, during conflicts that took place in the 1990s, this documentary addresses important facts for the then invasion of Estrutural. Begun in the 1960s, almost simultaneously with the construction of Brasília, this invasion arose on the outskirts of what is now the largest open-air dump in Latin America. Residents, politicians and military personnel present their views on the past and present of the community, in a synthesis of the process of urbanization in the Federal District.
Fragments of the daily life of Álvaro, who left Pinochet’s Chile in the 1980s to invent a new life for himself in Brazil.
In my dream, we talked about how our wishes didn't make sense to anyone else, but you hadn't died, and I was Chris Marker.
Professional wrestling is also known as lucha libre and puroresu. FILL - Federação Internacional de Luta Livre - is one of the most important academies in the Brazilian independent scene. Their shows usually take place in the court of an old sports club in Vicente de Carvalho, North of Rio de Janeiro. "Tatame" is an effective portrait of the biggest stars of FILL; from their daily routine to the transformations they go through to become the main characters of the show.
Marçal Aquino, one of the most important contemporary writers in Brazil, talks about how literature liberated him. Felipe, an almost ordinary reader, says that he reads to free himself. The meeting between the two reveals that the wall that apparently separates them is much less thick than being could imagine.
A soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art.
Gregory is in love with a carnival masquerade. He goes after her every year. His friends make fun, but he's a romantic convict. Luisette is a transvestite in search of affection. Together they spend a night of intense love. The next day, Gregory takes Luisette to a beneficent soccer game with friends dressed as women. As she plays he falls in love. Luisette captivates him by his sincere love.
Amélia is a woman with an extremely exhausting workday, after not reconciling her professional and personal life, hallucinations and nightmares start to take over Amélia's daily life, leading her to realize that she is being haunted by the Creature.
On a family video, the image and memory of a grandfather.
In Sao Paulo, Janaína and João take care of each other. She has epilepsy. He is in a relationship with a man who prefers to keep his distance. Above their lives floats the vague trauma of a mudslide that may have buried men and machines alike. Together, they try to protect their bodies from the evil that seems to spread like a fever.
Luana (Thaís Inácio) and Camila (Adassa Martins) stay in the pension of the mysterious Cassandra (Teuda Bara). There, an insistent trail of ants comes up every night bringing out shadowy secrets.
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.
Ciba (Rodrigo Santoro) is an independent investigator who works together with the police. A typical fallible hero who struggles with strong personal issues, while preventing crime and injustice. His partner, Deputy Ulisses (Luis Miranda), is a well-meaning professional who recognizes the difficulty in securing his function using only common artifacts, and Ciba's unofficial contact is of utmost importance for the progress of his investigations.
A strange man meets a seemingly ordinary child.
Member of the project 13 strange stories.
At dawn, a boy, a city and unexpected encounters.
A group of friends from São Paulo head for a secluded beach to celebrate New Year’s. Together they relax, sunbathe and make music. And they talk: about their sexuality, their bodies, their hair, their youth, their fears, certainties and uncertainties, as anyone does sometimes with good friends. Along the way, we learn a lot about contemporary Brazil.
André is a broken man, who lives isolated in a forest. The forces of nature embrace his body as he drowns in his effervescent inner world. Between the insomnia and the dreams, André is haunted by his past. He wishes to deconstruct himself, heal his sorrow and take the responsibility from his acts. He puts himself before the abyss where he must embrace his ghosts and change his skin in order to survive.
Mariana lives at the bottom of the sea. One day, her teacher Cecília introduces her to Christian, a prince from another world.
After discovering that an ancient tree has been struck by a lightning, two young men travel to the countryside trying to extract its roots. In the meantime, Gaúcho and Beto, two friends, work on a makeover of Gaúcho's home roof.
With its obvious simplicity, the film’s title happens to set the mood of the film, or at least its guiding principle: staying anchored in everyday life. More precisely, the life of Maria José and Norberto, who have been married for 35 years and who live in Contagem, in the suburbs of Belo Horizonte. Their marriage is on the rocks, which leads their two sons to also wonder about the future of their own relationships with their wives. The story is quite ordinary. How can one capture such an impercep- tible shift in the heart of the banality of things, only made more noticeable by a crisis? Filming his own family, his own parents, his brother and himself, André Novais Oliveira has chosen to take his time. He shots long sequences, leaving enough time for the fictional situations on which he puts his characters to grow and unfold. Then he uses wide frames to linger on more mundane, concrete or at times farcical moments: eating an orange, cooking, watching television...
Jesus, who's hitting the big 3-0, brings a surprise guest to meet the family. A Christmas special so wrong it must be from comedians Porta dos Fundos.
15 directors telling 15 tales about São Paulo.
Submitted for "The ABCs of Death 2" competition.
Trying to prove her courage, little Joana accepts the challenge of entering the woods, supposedly haunted by an ancient spirit.
Laura, a sexy Brazilian immigrant, has been living in New York for 25 years. She is a regular at NY nightclubs and frequents the most exclusive parties and upscale restaurants. However, she lives in a modest boarding house in Manhattan, where she shares a bathroom with other guests who are largely illegal immigrants. The film questions the meaning of success, examines the fear of returning home, the unconscious pressure of the family she abandoned in Curitiba, and the deliberate creation of a fantasy as a means of protection.
Three artists take over public space to present their vision and way of expression in the streets of the biggest city of South America. "Instigated" is a portrait of creation in the artists lives and São Paulo's picture.
The film documents the construction of political thinking of the newest candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Brazil by the female PARTY, the actress Georgette Fadel, from her relationship with an unusual troupe of ten people who accompany her on an initiatory journey in search of hers greatest reference, Pepe Mujica, in Uruguay.
The Loneliness of Marcela, a 14-year-old girl who decides to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
In a musical mood shifted and carried by the figure of Bob Estrela, a city and a girl blend into solitude in urban areas.
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.
Paulistas and Soledade are two rural regions located in the state of Goiás. In the early nineties the rural exodus was intensified with the expansion of monoculture farming and exploitation of water resources. Since 2014, there is no more young people living in the region. It's July, vacation time. Time when the children visit their parents.
Richard finally finds a friend, but he can't be of his own.
Mauro Mateus dos Santos was known by another name: Sabotage. Growing up amidst poverty in São Paulo, the musician, who became a legend after his death, is one of the most important names in national rap.
Ana (Manuela Campagna) is a 17-year-old girl who lives in a border town between Brazil and Argentina. There, she has no leisure options and no internet access. Your only refuge is to visit a tallow / lanhouse known as "The Cave". It is there that, one day, she ends up meeting Murilo (Fagundes Emanuel), the boy she will fall in love with.
Bixiga, heart of São Paulo. Jerusa, a resident of a house aged by time, on a special day, receives Silvia, an opinion pollster who circulates the neighborhood convincing people to answer questionnaires for a washing powder survey. The moment she meets Silvia, Jerusa provides her with an unusual afternoon full of memories, inviting her to share moments of happiness with an "unknown person".
Afonso Brazza became a fireman for the love of the profession. He became a film director and actor for the same reason. Brazza became one of the most original directors of Brazilian cinema. He died at age 48, the victim of cancer. The documentary material was filmed before his death and shows our hero fighting fires in real life and fictional villains. Brazza was a dreamer. His story entertains and thrills.
A betrayed man is hunted and left for dead. Long after, he returns as Castilho Paredes. With scars still deep he is placed in a family dispute to act as a hired hitman between brothers and sisters for a hefty inheritance that will draw guns and blood. As long as there are bullets, there will be vengeance
Solitudes goes from laugh to drama, from musical to documentary, from romantic comedy to mean satire, keeping loneliness focused in all its aspects at all times, in many stories that are linked to each other.
Alone at home, Mia is faced with an unimaginable situation when she comes across something supernatural on a dating app.
The journey of idealistic Vitor, a young federal judge who decides to dismantle the mafia that dominates the border between Brazil and Paraguay. Inspired by true events.
Edward, Susan, and their son, Lino, live a nice life in the suburbs having all that their bourgeois life can afford. Then, one day and without warning, stinky, brown, "doughy" stuff starts appearing outside their expensive and luxurious home. Despite their son's pleas to get their hands dirt and clean it up, the parents insist that this is "someone else's job"
When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a turbulent past. Pedro is now Zolah, the human cannonball. When secrets surface, bizarre family reunions rival the circus performances.
Maria is one of the many women who were born without knowing their place. She tries to move between the mansion where she lives with her husband and a third-class hotel, her refuge. Things are piling up, trapping her in a certain deadline to take a decision. Leaving or staying?
Eugenia, a young Bolivian middle-class woman, decides to separate from her husband, leave her job and move to her father's house in another city. She wants to start a different life. As time goes by she gets disappointed with her surrounding environment until one day she receives a notice that will put her long-awaited independence at risk.
