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Documentary about the man who is currently considered the father of violation of human rights inquests, Roger Casement (1864-1916). The actions during the time he spent in Africa, Brazil and in his native Ireland still echo in our days.
Three friends attend the same gym every day in search of their ideals of bodies. Despite assiduous, they live with the frustrating slips that happen away from the tracks, turning the gears of an endless cycle.
Itamar, a chubby and depressed young man, moves back to live with his eccentric mother after suffering a mental breakdown. Old tensions about his sexual orientation arise after he meets Ronen, a handsome lifeguard who leads him to confront his body image issues.
Four characters get stuck in a boarding house after the spread of a contagious disease.
The fire of a lit candle. A bonfire burns beside a river. A young man and an old man are together in an old house, dark and surrounded by woods. Who are they: father and son, or past and present?
The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial times that start to take over Brazil.
Please do not enter with clothes on.
Marcos takes his son to the park, hiding a secret about the most famous toy. A journey to the past connects father, son, and the dream of launching into space.
Clara is a restless woman who is on a hiatus in her relationship with Vivi. Clenched by passion, Clara is sucked into by Bento, a mysterious and obsessive being.
Guilherme is 11 years old and finds a way to deal with life's adversities in friends and games.
Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of Black Brazilian culture.
In the past, when white people didn’t exist, we used to hunt with our yãmĩyxop spirits. The whites came, cut down the trees, dried up the rivers and scared the animals away. Today, our tall trees are over, the whites surrounded us and our lands are tiny. But our yãmĩyxop are very strong and taught us the stories and chants from our ancients who walked around here.
Illustrating recurrent situations of xenophobia against immigrants in Brazil, "Migratory stories" presents some narratives proposing a sensitive and inclusive discourse.
Strong and feminine, "Why don't you cry?" addresses the delicate topic of suicide. Jessica is very closed, Barbara is a time bomb. The two meet when, at the stage of the faculty of psychology, Jessica meets Barbara. The coexistence leads Jessica to question her empty and meaningless life.
Through the investigation of crimes committed by Brazilian politicians, a vigilante officer encounters an unlikely love and is faced with the recurring question of our imagination as a nation: is there anyone who is not corruptible in this country?
The Knights of Good must face their most difficult enemy... Zaboo's mother.
A time-displaced group of militants decides to kidnap an ex-torturer.
In the middle of Praça da Sé, in São Paulo, Paloma - a dove like any other - swallows a chip and gains awareness. But what was supposed to be a blessing ends up revealing something terrible: she, like all doves, always ate scraps. Given this, Paloma goes after justice for the doves and, next to Pru, find out more about who she has become and her place among legs, rats and other inhabitants of the city.
Four cult members and their leader sit down for dinner after one member goes missing, leaving everyone's loyalties at risk.
"A Day with Jerusa" follows Silvia, a young, mediumic market researcher facing the hardships of underemployment while awaiting the result of a public exam, and Jerusa, a gracious 77-year-old lady, eyewitness to the daily life on Bixiga, a neighborhood filled with ancestral memories. On Jerusa's birthday, while she waits for her family's arrival, the encounter between her deepest memories and Silvia's mediumship allows them to travel through time and realities common to their ancestry.
Three employees talk about their lives, while buildings need to be mysteriously vacated. At the same time that they have to deal with their concerns, the city is still being swallowed by a great emptiness.
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
You already know part of the story; now it's time to discover its beginning. Set 20 years before Matt Johnson Remake, we follow the story of the new police officer Hank, whose first case involved investigating the murder that morally rocked Sotham City: the assassination of the Johnsons. Join Hank and his partner, Bullock, as they investigate criminal cases and uncover conspiracies surrounding the troubled Sotham, all while tracing the origin of the man who will one day become the iconic detective in the hat. Embark on this journey of learning and evolution for many familiar characters, featuring plenty of action, drama, rock, and iconic moments reminiscent of the main saga.
Fernanda Paes Leme (herself), a famous actress and TV personality in Brazil, feels overwhelmed and unaccomplished despite her thriving career. Just as she decides to play a Hamlet adaptation to find a lost sense of meaning, she has her social media accounts stolen by an identical doppelganger. Business flourishes as a quarantined Fernanda investigates who stole her identity and why, as she tries to redefine herself personally and professionally.
Forced to confront each other and consumed by deep-seated feelings, two people struggle to figure out what should stay alive: the chaotic present or the unknown future. Based on the short story 'Hoje Quero Partir Sem Você', written by Bianca Souza.
Corrupted by the power of Cipriano's Black Book, a Jesuit and his followers begin a reign of horror in colonial Brazil, until they be cursed to live forever trapped under the graves of a cemetery. Now, centuries later, they are ready to break free and spread their evil all over the world.
A documentary that follows the Bixa Pare Collective during an edition of the Sarau Bixaria Literária, exploring art, freedom of expression, and issues surrounding the world of drag queens.
A story full of mysteries and emotions. In this continuation of the webseries, Viih Tube and her gang need to find out who is the Anonymous Recanto, which is spreading the secrets of the school through social networks.
Just before the pandemic, the world experiences a phenomenon never seen before. Marilene looks for her daughter Roberta, a trans woman who went missing. While running out of time, she discovers a hope for the future.
The mother is dying, the father has never cared. The two sisters Ana and Ju, however, remain strong and in solidarity with each other - even if the world around them collapses and asteroids fall from the sky.
An extraterrestrial being watches glimpses of the city night during christmas time.
Three siblings devise a plan to get their divorced parents to spend Christmas together.
Osso experiences three major dilemmas in his life: at the same time as he dreams of being successful in a band made up of unstable and immature young people, he also seeks to get closer to his parents and rebuild a relationship.
Tereza, born during the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, is being cared for by her parents Rimenna and Gabriel.
Dora is a German-raised teenager visiting her enigmatic Brazilian grandmother for the first time. While trying to return to Germany at all costs, she discovers the incredible history behind the women of her family.
One couple, one night, an entire relationship of years.
"Negro em Mim" is an investigative documentary with black artists and thinkers in Brazil today. A portrait of a plural Brazil from the racial discussion promoted by a trip to 6 Brazilian cities. What do the Arts have to say about Black Brazil?
Nonendless search. Unbreakable cycle. Break point. End.
Film examines the underground culture of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Three decades after the world's most infamous nuclear disaster, wildlife has returned in the absence of human settlements. Meanwhile, illegal hiking adventurers known as "stalkers," extreme sports aficionados, artists, and tour companies have begun to explore anew the ghostly, post-apocalyptic landscape.
A documentary about "female ejaculation". Moving away from the two main types of discourse on the subject, scientific and pornographic, the film is interested in the experience of women who ejaculate. Demystifying the idea that female ejaculation is something rare and eccentric, the interviewees speak freely and naturally about their squirts.
Dona Hermínia and other renowned characters from Paulo Gustavo, such as Senhora dos Absurdos and Maria Enfisema, are in the '220 Volts Special New Year'.
The arrival of the Suape port and industrial complex brought business opportunities for large construction companies and their planned "high standard" neighborhoods in contrast to the life in the periphery and rural area of Cabo de Santo Agostinho (PE), the most vulnerable city for the young black men in Brazil.
Strange lights secretly haunt the city.
Three girls are invited to participate in a music festival in their summer. However, they discover that they are in summer school, so they need to find a way to go to the musical festival without their parents finding out.
A portrait of five people who were important to the filmmaker when he was a child. Apart from a few childhood photos, he himself remains out of the picture. He visits a teacher who used to take care of him, and a gay childhood friend. Their combined stories—about exclusion and terror, but also love—paint a portrait of a small, somewhat oppressive community and a boy who lost his sense of security within it, despite the help he was offered. In his wistful look at the past, Barreto transcends his personal experiences; anyone can identify with his bittersweet journey.
In 2014, Malian Toumani Kouyaté was urgently summoned to his native country to hear his grandfather tell his final story. Feeling death approaching, the experienced man decided to pass on the tradition.
Duda is a young girl of 13 years intrigued by her mother's work. Beside a new friend, she starts walking at night, and crosses a border with no return.
Filmmakers Cláudio Assis and Lírio Ferreira go on a journey through the frontier between the states of Pernambuco and Paraíba, Brazil, to show the importance poetry holds in local culture.
CÓRREDOM features a troubled egos race, disputed by 7 characters who, possessed by their rhetoric, lose the focus of the end goal and stop along the way. Informed by reality show dynamics and tackling Brazil's colonial past, the film is an experimental satire about what it means to be a winner in Brazil today.
In the 70s, a dam and a hydroelectric plant were built in Sobradinho. The government at the time, which was commanded by the military regime, thought that that small town, in the northeast hinterland, would be ideal for the construction, because there would be no resistance from the locals. So, 73.000 people were displaced - it is one of the biggest forced migrations in the history of Brazil. Four cities and dozens of villages submerged. Mrs. Pequenita was the only inhabitant to ever return; there, she lives in a ghost town. She receives the visit of three social agents, who own old videos and photos of the region.
A modern day parable and a moral tale focusing on how difficult it can be to recover from a life on the streets. A man outside a bank begins to sink into the pavement how people react will be key to his plight.