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Luis Fernando Verissimo watches the world around him bristle as he approaches his 80th birthday.

Just 12 hours after having his daughter in the custody of a kidnapper, the influential communicator Sílvio Santos faces an even more complicated obstacle: his home is invaded and he is held hostage for seven hours. Realizing that his life is at risk, he seeks refuge in the distant thoughts of his entire trajectory, which began when he was just a 14 year old teenager working as a street vendor.

Years after losing contact, two childhood loves tied by an undeniable bond are forced to confront what they feel — and what, if anything, remains of their friendship. Reunited as adults at the wedding of one of their older brothers, both of their seemingly perfect futures are suddenly called into question.

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

While photographing landscapes to illustrate her class, Sara captures a strange phenomenon.

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional Brazilian music of that time.

Deep within an old data processing center, through jumbled wires, ancient codes and fading recollections, three processors work on human memories. Suddenly, amidst the chaos, something begins to take shape.

In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous animal-human hybrid creations.

A Brazilian father finds a worthy opponent when he meets his daughter's Argentine in-laws, and a trip to Bariloche becomes the stage for a fun international rivalry.

Two young students find their mundane routine interrupted by a seemingly insignificant detail: the last chocolate bar available in a vending machine.

The mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro wants to go down in history. For this purpose, he decides to separate Rio from Brazil and create a new country.

In powerful images, alternating between documentary observation and staged sequences, and dense soundscapes, Luiz Bolognesi documents the Indigenous community of the Yanomami and depicts their threatened natural environment in the Amazon rainforest.

Rita is about to marry a wealthy physician, Dr. Augusto Vilela. One night, Vilela's best friend, Camilo, is brought to the hospital, dying from an overdose. Vilela saves his life and introduces him to his fiancée. Rita and Camilo fall in love and, confused about what to do, the girl goes to a fortuneteller to seek for advic

Four couples go to a country seat. One of the girls is still a virgin, and his boyfriend proposes a game which changes the group behavior.

The river is not the same. It has turned into contaminated mud. Residents of a fishing village face an uncertain future after the dam burst. Yara and Dingue resume their lives, remain and drift in the memory of the place while the waters run down the mountains in the face of the indomitable forces of nature.

The documentary narrates the life of Toquinho, one of the greatest Brazilian artists, a musician who transcends the barriers of time and language with his sensitivity. A story that shapes Brazilian popular music.

A botany of cookie packaging.

Tunico is the most famous “Pirate Parrot” of Rio de Janeiro and is always chasing reporters to appear on TV. After a serious accident at an amusement park, Tunico meets Beto, a mysterious young man who becomes his apprentice. This encounter will reveal the dark side of the relentless pursuit of fame at any cost, in a Brazil with more than 70 million televisions turned on every day.

Courage was gradually growing, as the anguish took hold of the body. One morning, Gloria, 34, sets out to find herself back again.

To avoid gossips about his life, a rich man hires a butcher to play his wife's lover. But the two fall in love causing more troubles than expected.

In this anthology of horror episodes, 13 bizarre stories are told by independent film directors of Southern Brazil. Between ghosts, serial killers and demons, they conduct their strange, very strange stories.

A science fiction and suspense feature that presents a frighteningly possible future, where things got even more out of control and what would be just a "quarantine" became the new and totally bizarre normal.

Ana is going through psychological problems. She and lifelong friend Cléia decide to revisit the place they spent their childhood together in an attempt to get better results in her treatment. But they meet a stranger who will upset their plans.

Fifty-something Rosa, lying in an MRI scanner, is prompted to summon a happy memory. She plunges into a meandering, subconscious road trip with her indomitable mother, both queer, where wild imagination becomes a tender, unruly form of therapy.

A male nurse goes to a small village in Bahia's countryside. Based on the Machado de Assis short story.

In a mosaic of human relationships and day-to-day situations, men and women of different ages feel a pressing need to reinvent themselves. As they cross each other's paths, they all are at a turning point in their lives.

During the pandemic, Ana faces the isolation, but maybe she isn't as alone as she thought.

Fernando works with his father in their singing telegram service car, called Neon Heart. His life changes after an unfortunate performance.

A father becomes savage in the pursuit of revenge, but he does not know that, in his own habitat, he is also an animal.

On the industrial outskirts of São Paulo’s ABC region, Maria Domingas, an exhausted factory worker, breaks away from her routine for the first time: instead of going straight home, she stops at a bar. There, under the weight of the silence and oppression of her time, an encounter opens a mysterious window to tenderness and humanity in her life.

Jean feels trapped in the logic of longevity that the pharmaceutical industry imposes on him and decides to plan a conscious suicide. He invites Helena to commit suicide to two. She, on the other hand, hesitates, knows that she will live well even if she needs to live alone, but she helps him in his intentions. The silence between them does not reveal distance, but intimacy. These are years of shared affection. Together, they will prepare all the details for the funeral. He dances death while she continues rehearsing life. In the process, the two realize that before the end, there is still a lifetime.

A series of crimes against redheads scares the people from a little town. After the death of his brother, the 13 year old Alberto decides to investigate what is happening and is helped by the experienced but forgetful Inspector Pimentel.

Interspersed with documentation of dancer Juliana Carneiro da Cunha’s "Possession" performance, which draws from Christian mysticism, in the filmmaker’s words this experimental short is about “the psychic suffering of women in a patriarchal society”. It takes the viewer on a disorienting journey—with abrupt cuts in sound and image—through the Catholic Church, repressed sexuality, racial violence perpetrated by white women, maternal fatigue, male chauvinism and drug addiction…

As Lorena gears up for a make-or-break fight, she battles anxiety and a hostile environment, risking her sports sponsorship dreams.

Solange wants her stuff back. She moved out of town five years ago and now returns to retrieve her belongings, which she left in boxes at friends' homes.

A new threat attacks the country, bringing a series of cases of memory loss and only one individual can end this situation.

COPA 181 is the first feature film by Brazilian director Dannon Lacerda. It is a 100% independent production that deals with the relationship of a couple that is affected by the events in a gay sauna. Awarded in several festivals in Brazil and in other countries, the director had the premiere of his film at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival in October 2017.

The humble Zacarias goes to the big city with his wife to help their son who wants to be a Doctor. There he gets a job, and lives a lot of funny adventures as a taxi driver.

A documentary about the controversial businessman Henning Boilesen Jr. and his involvement with the military regime as one of its most enthusiastic supporters, financing it and participating in the tortures of political prisoners. Those actions later culminated in his assassination in 1971 by members of militant groups opposed to the regime.

Secret Santa should be a joyful and celebratory gathering. But as soon as the first gift is given, resentment and bitterness take over. What should be a pleasant exchange of gifts ends up becoming a fierce competition for the best present. Rules are made to be broken, especially monetary ones.

Filmed and recorded live during performances at the Paulo Eiró Theater, São Paulo, 1994.

The film tells the story of sixteen people in the hottest day of the year in the city of Porto Alegre.

After getting out of jail where she learned how to take care of the sick, Alma, an albino woman, decides to recover something much more important than her own freedom. In order to do so, Alma is forced to take care of Clemente (a hypochondriac with an OCD to avoid a sudden death) at night. The relationship between them will transit from suspicion and fear to tenderness and love.

Sara has been struggling with insomnia for a long time. Exhaustion makes her lose touch with reality and become increasingly paranoid. Seeking a solution, Sara finds herself in yet another psychiatry office.

In the wake of a dream, João Vieira Torres sets off to find the children that his grandmother Aurora, a midwife, helped deliver. Through encounters with the living and the dead, he uncovers tragic destinies which reflect a structural history of violence against women. A curse dispelled by the means of cinema, resulting in a film of exceptionally rare beauty.

Nicholas is a young cinematographer, shooting a documentary about the ancient tribal ritual in an Indian village near the Amazon, where he fell in love with the daughter of a chief, at the same time more and more like the side of the original dailylife, and a more in-depth understanding of their ancient customs, however, he found where deforestation has become increasingly serious ......

An affluent but bored housewife and mother pays for her kinky sex fantasies to come true. |

A tribute documentary on Fernando Ramos da Silva, the famous child star of the acclaimed film by Hector Babenco, "Pixote, a Lei do Mais Fraco" (1981). 20 years after his assassination by the police, his co-stars and Babenco talk about Fernando's contributions to the film, his troubled life when his acting works didn't took off as expected (since he was typecast) and which made him turn back to his past life of poverty and crimes. The project also presents that film's influence to many directors and artists around the world.

The erotic mishaps of a family: the voyeur pervert father spies and harasses all the maids in the mansion and watch them have sex. The wife is a sex starved woman, who has sex with a young boy working in the house, then steals her daughter's boyfriend and the daughter finds a new one in the park immediately. And father watches all three group have sex in different rooms in the mansion.

In a mysterious music venue, Luan makes a living performing erotic shows for mysterious men. When a sinister client appears, he discovers the fine line between dreams and nightmares.

An electrical storm was created in silence.