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Autobiographical documentary that brings the theme of parental alienation through the affectionate gaze of a Brazilian grandmother abruptly removed from her Argentine granddaughter after her son's marital separation. In the search for contact with the girl, a grandfather is faced with legal barriers, negative attorneys and several possible fr. During this tortuous journey, she meets people in a similar situation and is part of a worldwide solidarity network.
Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.
Conceição Tavares is one of the most forceful, critical and original voices of Brazilian economic thought. This documentary gives an account of her life and work, while taking stock of more than half a century of a country looking for a future.
Alice Segretto is more agitated than ever. The success of her chain of stores Sexy Delícia takes the businesswoman on a tour around the world. Working endlessly, Alice realizes that she has not been able to keep up with her family, which has also grown. Conflict sets in: how to reconcile this insane life with her family? Impetuously, Alice makes a curious decision, deciding to retire and hand over the business to her mother. But when a competitor comes up with a plan to steal the scene, Alice's life is once again flipped legs in the air.
Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music.
A film that chronicles the lives of Tatiane, who leaves São Paulo trying to rebuild her life; Odair, a young man exploring his sexuality after leaving his parental home; and Henry, a Haitian immigrant struggling to survive amid Brazil’s poverty. As chaos unfolds in Rondônia, their paths will cross.
Based on the classic Brazilian television series that conquered audiences during Sunday night prime time on TV Globo, with improv that happens like in scenes of a play. The feature film’s structure maintains the members of a middle-class family from São Paulo, their maid, and the building’s doorman. It’s the return of iconic characters like Caco Antibes, Magda and Ribamar, and also new characters.
Bernardo owns a furniture industry. In his sixties, he lives alone. After his father's death, he has to count to ten everynight to fall asleep. Time goes by, and it seems like he just can't fall asleep.
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.
Raquel's life takes a terrible turn when she finds herself held captive by Gregorio, a sculptor of living dolls, who presents his conceptions of beauty and complete submission.
In the 1990s, two brothers were accused of murdering eight women, one man and one child in the Serra dos Órgãos region. In the eyes of the suspects, Sergeant Téo realizes that the trial of the press, police and local society is fundamentally racist, and begins to have doubts about the conviction of one of them. Based on a true story, the film is a work of fiction about the famous case of the "Necrophil Brothers."
The selfish Ancelmo dies and ends up trapped in limbo. To secure his place in heaven, he must practice a good deed and play cupid, as he is tasked with uniting a man and a woman with widely differing personalities.
The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and France. This circus art origin show is presented and analyzed through archives that reveals the success of these presentations with their pain resistance championships and the great public presence, including politicians and government officials. Fakir spans current footage from contemporary artists who keep this art alive in performances and shows.
Denying his duty and in order to escape a crucial process of becoming a shaman, Ihjãc runs away to the city. Far from his people and culture, he faces the reality of being an indigenous in contemporary Brazil.
The death of the matriarch on Christmas eve provokes a crisis that makes the family review attitudes and give a new meaning to the date.
Reveals the real, day-to-day life of penitentiary officers from São Paulo, Brazil.
Once a dream wove a shade, and pitying I dropped a tear. But I saw lights near, that light the ground while the soul wanders.
João, a middle-class filmmaker, goes through a series of encounters with people like his long-time friend Irene; his boyfriend Álvaro; Matias, a young man he meets in the subway and has a sexual experience with, among others, some acquainted, others unknown. These encounters affect him and slowly begin to reveal a play of time frames which blends together life and creative process, present and memory.
Young, gifted and black! In an act of self-empowerment, a group of young Black people, mainly first and second generation immigrants from the Caribbean, have occupied the public space of the Toronto underground to perform their agitprop concept of edutainment – poets, rappers, singers and musicians.
Mônica and Camila walks at night. A strange sound surprises them. An object falls from the sky. They receive a message. Something evokes them.
The multiple screen installation and photographic series A Marvellous Entanglement (2019) traverses a collection of Lina Bo Bardi’s most iconic buildings, offering a meditation on the work and legacy of the visionary modernist architect and designer (1914–1992).
Three men united by blood and art. The photographer Christian Cravo travels through Africa while mourning for his father, Cravo Neto, icon of Brazilian photography, and facing disagreements with his grandfather, Cravo Junior, icon of modernist sculpture.
The president of the United States is awakened in the middle of the night with an urgent news: The Guyana has suddenly disappeared from the map.
The story of Pedro and Rosa, two miniature dolls who are perfect for each other, but reluctant to break boundaries and overcome their limitations to live out their love story.
Hebe Camargo is one of the most emblematic entertainments in Brazil. At her 60s, she went on to control her own career and, despite the criticism, the dreadful husband and the powerful and sexist bosses, she revealed herself to the public as an extraordinary woman, capable of overcoming any personal or professional crisis.
Vampires rule the world for thousand years disguised as wealthy humans, while humanity has been relegated to middle-class, poor and miserable. Hopekillers use the suffering within the human blood to process their technology.
A couple lives a troubled time in their relationship and decide to bet their future on a soccer match.
Based on a shamanic song “Gujiga”, myths, symbols and glimpses into the natural phenomena of turtles are interwoven throughout this film, revealing violent human interventions into the life of this reptile. This film is an ode to the turtle and a reminder of the connection between animals and humans.
Teenager student Luana leaves school in a rush and records a farewell video to her mother. What happened up to that point is then revealed, beginning at the day she met her classmate Emília.
One night seven years ago, Rafael came home after work and discovered that people he did not know had come looking for him. He immediately fled, without looking back. From that moment on, his life changed, as if that night had never ended. One evening, around an improvised fire near a factory, he decides to confide his journey to a stranger. Rafael’s intimate account meets the collective testimony of an entire nation oppressed by poverty, police repression and institutional corruption.
Filmmaker Hare Brasil follows painter, public speaker and street artist Eduardo Marinho as they hit the road aboard Celestina, a worn-down and faulty Volkswagen van, for a trip across Brazil and Uruguay, where Marinho is set to give a lecture at a local University. They cross over 5000 kilometers and stop by numerous cities following an everything goes approach, with Marinho selling his work, talking to people and sharing his thoughts on life, society and everything else.
A priest captures and arrests a vampire. He visits him for a regime of scientific experiments and strangeness. Over time the encounters become a hallucinated erotic and supernatural relationship.
Leo had never imagined he would see his dad kissing another man in the middle of a party - until it happened. Now, with the help of his best friend Carol, he has to find a way to tell his dad that he found out about his secret.
Is the end of the school year, the heat comes, and with it regular power cuts in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Karol, Junior, Ronaldo and Caio have a harsh summer ahead of them. In a country where living conditions are increasingly precarious, these four young people will faced with the uncertainties of adulthood, invent new ways, perhaps unthinkable, to continue growing and dreaming.
Many Brazilians think that slavery ended with the signing of the Lei Áurea. But the relations of slave exploitation of labor persist until today. It is estimated that there are 369,000 Brazilians living and working as slaves. Through the testimony of modern abolitionists and rural workers who were victims of contemporary slavery, Servidão investigates the slave mentality of Brazilian society, which dates back to five centuries.
A group of friends travels to a beach house on an island on the brazilian seaside to celebrate the end of high school, a place virtually no one else inhabits and which is almost always dark. However, their drollery and parties are cut short by the feeling that the place shelters an unfathomable horror.
Long before they socialized almost every day at Dona Jô's pension, Jéssica, Ferdinando and Máicol didn't even know each other. But when Terezinha decides to organize a big feijoada at Morro do Cerol, they all meet for the first time, in the most unusual way possible.
A young couple's last hours together before a trip that will separate them.
Amani is a little Pakistani girl who lives in Brazil. When moving house, the Muslim girl receives an unexpected gift from her new Brazilian friend: a bikini.
"Eletronica:Mentes" takes a look inside the mental world of the Brazilian legends in this field, examining the forces, the experience and the effects of synthetically created noises and their distillation into experimental music.
The vibrating effects of sound waves on a watery surface draws a haunting image. "UN" is a performance created and developed by brazilian sound artist bella.
A portrait of transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances as weapons to fight sexism, homophobia, and racism.
A 20-year-old woman begins to question the experiences of women in society; she meets researchers and people who work on the gender issue to better discuss and understand the struggles and differences that women face in their daily lives.
After his death, infamous Rio de Janeiro mob boss Golden Mouth (named after his all-golden teeth) gets multiple accounts of his life told to the press by his former lover.
Due to her father’s death, Marie returns to the countryside after 15 years. Her childhood friend, Estêvão, is leaving with her on a trip to Crato, her father’s hometown.
Her mother’s distance, her father’s absence, and the traumas provoked by her stepfather form an ocean inside the girl Muriel, who is afraid of swimming. The animation, directed by Carol Sakura and Walkir Fernandes, poetically approaches through verbal and visual metaphors the experience of plunging into one's own pains so as to finally emerge.
People have their ethics and morals put in check when they witness situations of social injustice.
A journalist states in her weekly column the reasons why she does not want to have any children, defending her position on life and motherhood. But she will have to rethink her beliefs when she meets her new neighbor and his little daughter.
An emotional dive into the music and life of Erasmo Carlos, from his years as a young rock-and-roller looking for gigs through his enduring musical partnership with Roberto Carlos.
Nilo Perequê is a successful comedian who stars in a TV show. When he wins the award for best comedian of the year, the comedian decides to radically change his career and devote himself totally to drama, leaving his family and businessman desperate.
Bigger-than-life revolutionary, Indianara and her group lead a fight for the survival of transgender people in Brazil. She gathers her forces for one last battle against the attacks from her political party and the totalitarian threat to come.
A first slice of a loaf of bread arrives in the big city trying to get fame and overcome the fact that it was left on the packaging. Between fermented egos artists and audience disputes, the insecure Osmar emerges as an unexpected celebrity in the television world.
The trajectory of musician and comedian Mussum as vocalist of the group "Os Originais do Samba" and later in cinema and TV as a member of "Os Trapalhões", a group that revolutionized the way of making humor on Brazilian television.
The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the world: it could be anywhere, as long as it's a place where to feel happier.