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On the porch of a farm, a woman tells stories while cutting and sewing scraps of cloth, creating images that form a towel. There are four stories of humor and magic. The fisherman's wedding with Iara, a mermaid from the rivers. The altar boy of a church that sees the procession of souls. The encounter between a Santa Claus in a store and a street boy and the adventures of Zé Burraldo, a naive guy who always lets himself be carried away by others.
The feature film that brings together 12 shorts by youngsters of the suburbs of São Paulo, addressing issues such as the lack of work perspective, racism, right to housing and homophobia.
Three young people arrive from different parts of the country to go to college in Sao Paulo. On their first day there, a strange and intense attraction unites them. Together, they rent an apartment and begin living together, in close quarters. Sharing kisses and fond embraces. They exchange words of endearment with the naturalness of ordering a sandwich at a diner. They threaten to break up and the next moment they are all laughing together again. College days however soon come to an end and, with each having different paths to trail, separation is imminent. And consequently, their gestures, words and attitudes take on a new weight. Touching each other now takes on a new significance. Words of love are weighed down by consequences.
It's March 17. Leo and Flora make their way down Paulista Avenue, as they go about their daily errands. But as the day goes on, the city sinks into apprehension, and the siblings' plans for the future seem to drift further and further away.
Young and rich executive living in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, leaves his wife and kids behind and goes to Porto Seguro, Bahia, to try and live as a fisherman with his mistress.
Two best friends embark on a life-changing adventure abroad as exchange students.
Memories, mistakes and regrets of what could have been?
A 92-year-old man decides that the time has come to say goodbye to all that is most important in his life, including his lover – who is 55 years younger than him.
Young directors are filming “The Exhibitionist” in the middle of a farm in a paradise-like region. The film poetically investigates the Brazilian soul, with the Amazon as the center of the world, reflecting on existential issues, the right to sexual freedom and individuality.
In the periphery of São Paulo, the pregnant single mother Cleuza works as maid in the apartment of a middle-class family. Each of her sons has a different unknown father: the oldest, Dênis, has a baby son that lives with his mother and he works as motorcycle courier.
Documentary about the victorious German national football team - called "Die Mannschaft" - and their journey to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
The musician and writer of the comic book "Ghost with Heart of Stone" Eduardo meets the gorgeous Laura, who is engaged and close to her marriage, in a bookstore and immediately they fall in love for each other. Sooner they get married, and one night, Eduardo unexpectedly dies, but his soul does not move to the Third World. He meets the Ghost with Heart of Stone stranded in his house, stalking his beloved next door neighbor D. Mariana and he asks to the ghost how he can communicate and say farewell to Laura.
Public functionary and family man Lineu and his beloved wife Nenê celebrate the 40th anniversary of their first date. In the present day, Lineu feels uncomfortable when colleague Pacheco dies and goes to the doctor for an examination. When the result of his tomography arrives, Lineu steals the document, afraid of having a tumor, but he believes he will die sooner. Meanwhile, Nenê meets Lineu's old rival Carlinhos, who manages the local market, and invites him to dinner.
When she's about to fail in math – the subject she hates the most, Jasmine has to take booster classes with a cute young tutor, but who breathes numbers in everything he does. Facing family pressure and embarking on a risky love, she'll need to overcome her fears and limitations to pursue her true dream: be an artist.
Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.
In a diatopic and retro-futuristic Brazil, time has passed and technology has lost credibility. With the return of Papelada, João is hired to be the sole employee of an organization whose real objectives he does not know.
Investigation into the seven years that followed the closure of Companhia Vera Cruz, in 1955, which marked a period of crisis for national film production in Brazil.
Two students make a date in a secluded cave behind their school, where they could be undisturbed. But on arrival they see a corpse. They run to inform the authorities, but when they arrive the corpse has mysteriously disappeared.
In order to study fashion in so-desired Paris, a young country girl who hates Carnival travels to Rio de Janeiro to try to get support from the most famous designer in Brazil. Set on sneaking into the sewing team of one of the biggest samba schools, she will discover that Carnival only lasts for a week, but a love story can change her entire life.
The documentary retraces the band's meteoric rise, as they became the biggest phenomenon in Brazilian music in 1995 — and one of the most remarkable in the country's history.
In a convention of youtubers, the characters enter into various conflicts since they are all in search of fame at any price.
The gushing syringe of a transvestite hormonal application ritual inaugurates a tridimensional failure in the matrix of gender and the molecular constitution of the body. Bones, skin and muscles are pulverized into the video and merge with the molecules of images in a cybernetic dissolution.
Six teenagers go through life changing events while they try to keep a very strong friendship with each other.
A sweet couple invite a third person over for the night, who brings a lustful energy to spice things up.
Parvati, Gisa, Santo and Baby are the only members of the fan club"Exilados" dedicated to the band Príncipes no Exíllo; the sudden news that the group has come to an end hits them hard. While they try to understand why their idols put their dream lives on pause, they have to go through the maturation phase.
A Brazilian production that portrays a journey of struggle, faith, hope and transformation through powerful life experiences.
Dispossessed in an essay about the daily bread. In a country like Brasil, of such abyssal social inequality as there is here, it's urgent for me in cinema to talk about the class to which I belong, the class-who-lives-on-labor. And, alongside that, about the labor relations, the survival, the unemployment, the increasingly impoverished life, the small popular uprisings and the confrontations with the non natural order of things. In "Bread and People", we deal with ruins. And in the struggle of the old against the new, we face mainly the ruin of an idea of progress, and the debris of a critical anti capitalist art today. We've deepened our investigation of an epic, historical and dialectical cinema, using the materials of inspiration themselves.
A Latinoamericano experimental film. The first version of this 1957 film, a single copy drawn and painted directly onto blank 35mm film, was sent to and lost during the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival in 1968 and remade 1989 Desenho Abstrato n° 2!
A film about popular movements in defense of housing. Introducing: the State against the Homeless, in the capital of Brazil.
Perhaps few words are as powerful as the word monster. It can certainly evoke countless thoughts and sensations. When faced with it, you might picture characters from your childhood, from lullabies, or from short stories told by adults to instill fear and encourage good behavior. We create our own monsters, and we fear them for what they reveal about ourselves.
In 1850 the Italian dancer Maria Baderna arrives at Brazil, her fame and the scandals she provokes turns her name in a common expression. The film uses passages supposed to be about her to criticize modern Brazil, the dictatorship period and also a homage to filmmakers like Rogério Sganzerla.
A theater manager about to go bankrupt decides to accept help from his daughter and her boyfriend to save the family's finances, which she does with the sponsorship of a rich man.
Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.
After a newlywed couple moves into a whitewashed house, the former owner shows up and complications begin.
Creating a national park in the Brazilian state of Piauí dedicated to the preservation of what are apparently the first traces of human activity in the Americas has been archeologist Niède Guidon’s life work. SERTÃO, AMÉRICA is a contemporary take on a mythical territory of Brazilian cinema, once the cinematic realm of Glauber Rocha and other giants. The film pays a brief visit to the region, which is rendered in appropriately fragile analogue textures and deteriorated colours, as small fragments of the biographies of those who used to live there hover over the animal noises of the delicately crafted soundscape.
During Expo-Bruxas, the largest wizard fair in the world, Pippo, Bento and Sol travel to Italy to investigate the disappearance of the sorceress Berenice, who was kidnapped by the wizards Máximo and Mínima Buongusto. With teamwork and the help of Pippo's grandmother, they will try to solve this mystery.
Cris, aged 12, and her brother are left at the side of the road by their parents. The punishment quickly turns into an even greater challenge.
On an ordinary day, Alana is the last girl chosen in her PE class. In the afternoon, she goes to the house of a distant classmate, with no intention of making friends. While they build a model, smoke and even kiss, Alana observes the family up close and finally comes face to face with Clarissa.
It is a hot night in Cuba. Elizabeth de Victória, aged 22, is about to make her long-awaited debut on the stage of the biggest drag show in the entire province of Artemisa. But before she gives a live performance, she must confront all the difficulties preceding the show. A ruthless clock counts the minutes to the start of the show and the preparations of other drag queens reveal all the shortcomings of the debutant. Comments about the unknown girl can be heard whispered around the dressing room. The atmosphere is becoming denser as the successive drag queens finish their performances and everyone is awaiting the visiting debutant.
"Until When?" originally "Até que ponto?", is a short thriller film. While guiding the students about abusive relationships, Marta comes across André, an enigmatic young man who will bring her challenges that will change her life completely.
Two Italian brothers, Franco and Giovanni, are marked by envy and resentment. While Giovanni, a talented painter, gains recognition in Brazil, Franco stays in Italy, enjoying the attention of their parents —attention that was always denied to the younger brother. When Franco asks Giovanni for a painting during a brief trip to Brazil, the bitterness between them reaches a breaking point, revealing a truth as painful as the artwork created.
During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring.
A couple of tough girls from the Brazilian countryside race their pickup truck to win a bet and prove that they're better than the boys.
A child gets lost in the cracks and his mother desperately attempts to save him.
An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.
Eduardo has a mysterious disease in his body. The appearance of crabs everywhere in the tropical city of Recife may have something to do with it.
The children are invited by a Brazilian music star to one of his shows. But the trip turns into a nightmare when the villains Gonzales and Gonzalito, recently released from prison, decide to kidnap Maria Joaquina.
The white flowers in the back of the boy start to darken. In war, Quibungo devours the other legends. Jurupari is about to win.
