A documentary-tribute to the filmmaker Humberto Mauro considered the pioneer of Brazilian and Latin American cinema, directed by his grandnephew, André Di Mauro.
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A documentary-tribute to the filmmaker Humberto Mauro considered the pioneer of Brazilian and Latin American cinema, directed by his grandnephew, André Di Mauro.
São Paulo is a complex city. So complex, that when stories based on true elements mix with fiction, it's hard to know which is which.
Despite being invisible, Tommy Brilho has an impeccable style. Will it be enough to get noticed by his crush?
Clara and Fernando try to survive in a world separated by wars while looking for a safe place where they can rebuild their lives.
Threatened with death, three people in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico resist violence using weapons such as information, awareness and affection. Three countries, many lives, united by oppression.
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.
When witnessing a hit, Arandir, a newly married banker, tries to succor the victim, but the man, almost dead, has only time to make one last request: a kiss. Arandir kisses the man, but his act is spotted by his father-in-law Aprígio and photographed by Amado Ribeiro, a tabloid reporter.
A man who lost his taste and his blind wife; an almost deaf girl and her consumerist stepmother; an adult movie actor in love and his completely passionate woman; a sign language teacher and his dilemmas with dumb students. Characters full of love and full of inabilities to cope with their emotional side.
An intimate meeting between two women filming each other. An exploration of the relationship of two artists: an indigenous filmmaker and a non-indigenous visual artist and anthropologist.
The life story of Bisi Alimi, who went from being an anti-gay prosthelytize, preaching hell fire and damnation to those who strayed, into becoming the first Nigerian to come out on national TV.
Dr. Drauzio Varella has a hypothetical conversation with his friend Hector Babenco, a filmmaker who died in 2016. The importance of friendship is addressed in the documentary based on the death of a friend — and shows the decrease in happiness and the irreplaceable void left by this game.
It's night and a woman needs to get to the airport, but there are many obstacles in her path.
The true story of Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president of Brazil after a 20-year military dictatorship, and the infamous hospitalization which led to his death before he ever managed to take office.
Documentary about the poet, writer and playwright Hilda Hilst, considered by critics as one of the most important voices of the Portuguese language of the twentieth century. Through the use of personal sound and image files, interviews, meetings and fictional interventions, we will seek the memory and the presence of Hilda Hilst in her daily life at Casa do Sol, the farm where she lived in Campinas.
Eva's veins are getting darker. After a strange doctor's appointment, she sees herself caught in a spiral of frenzy and paranoia, only to turn into something other than human.
Film director Petter and special effects specialist Alexandre join forces to produce a new film: You, Dead. The characters in this production are dead people, who serve as a mold for the believable masks of their faces. Anyone is subject to being a character in Petter Baiestorf's movie.
An elegant dinner, which takes place in real time, brings together a group of intellectuals in the early 90s in São Paulo, Brazil: the hosts are the editor of the country's top news magazine and her husband, the company's lawyer, and the occasion is the wedding anniversary of the magazine publisher and his wife, a famous theater actress. The publisher has written an open letter to the president of the country, with serious denunciations, which will run in the upcoming issue. He risks being arrested this very evening. As tensions increase with the imminence of prison, secrets come to light revealing the conflict between the ethics sought in public life and the ethics practiced in private life.
Based on Guy de Maupassant's "The Night".
Mario and his father live isolated in a small place in Brazi's countryside.
Pablo lives happily in Rio de Janeiro, but his son is about to be expelled from school in Argentina. He has to go back to Buenos Aires and fix things.
A recently separated Argentinian man and woman, with their two teenage children, go on a family holiday to Florianópolis, Brazil, where they become delightfully and problematically involved with the family from whom they rent a house.
A KISS FOR GABRIELA tells the story of a remarkable woman named Gabriela Leite. An activist for sex workers’ rights for over 30 years, Gabriela was the first sex worker to run for Brazilian Congress. The documentary presents an intimate portrait of her 2010 campaign when she faced 822 opponents and challenged a male dominated political system. Combining an observational style with unrestricted access, it explores what it means to be a prostitute, to be a wife, and most importantly, what it means for a woman representing one of the most stigmatized populations in the world to run for office. Gabriela’s charisma and amazing history of activism engages audiences and encourages them to reflect critically on laws and policies that restrict the rights and possibilities of women like Gabriela globally. For women like Gabriela who make history and challenge stereotypes with their campaigns, it is not whether they win or lose, or even how they play. It’s that they’re in the game at all.
The skin is not the limit.
40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son.
All form of artistic expression only exist clandestinely on a undemocratic Brazil. This movie bring the stories of those people who resist this reality.
The Ball rolls freely and while the RAP echoes from the speakers, four friends roam the dance floor with very different goals. What they don't know is that their fates will be sealed forever after this night.
Corporal Rosinha is accused of killing a boy during a police roundup in a local high school and the population is outraged. Rosinha's wife, Heloísa of the bakery, tries to find out the truth about what happened.
Alone at home, Mia is faced with an unimaginable situation when she comes across something supernatural on a dating app.
Bruno is a depressive and lonely guy who cannot sleep, in the meantime, he became a PVV volunteer, to help people with some kind of problem, in one of the calls, he falls in love by a woman and sees a new light in your life.
A sensitive reassembly of the Amnesty Caravan apologies to all who have had their lives affected by the civil-military dictatorship in the country. The work uses only archival material and is narrated by Paulo Abrão, former National Secretary of Justice.
Serginho was one of the founding members of the historic Coligay fan club, the first fan club formed exclusively by homosexuals in the history of Brazilian soccer. Here, he tells a bit about his story and also about his relationship with Magia, one of the most recent seven-a-side soccer clubs in Brazil, formed only by homosexuals, who compete in championships and tournaments exclusively for LGBT's with the goal of bringing together a space of respect and welcoming amidst the still sexist and prejudiced scenario in soccer.
Guilherme is tormented by the possibility of his fiancée being cheating on him. Desperate to end this mystery, he plans out a terrible way to finding the truth.
Vlad is one of the employees in the Human Resources department at his company. As the end of the year approaches, he becomes responsible for organizing the "firm party", an end-of-year party to boost the morale of the staff, deeply shaken by a series of layoffs. Determined to prove himself to his ex-girlfriend, he accepts the challenge. Everything starts well, but things end up getting out of Vlad's control, who will have to do everything possible and impossible to solve all the problems and make the party work.
Aroldo Maciel, an audio technician at a university in Cuiabá, created an earthquake prediction method that has been challenging scientists around the world. He has great fame in Chile, to the point of not being able to walk the streets without being recognized. "Sísmico" shows great tremors predicted by Aroldo, his method, his conflict with science and his relationship with the Chileans.
Emerson and his friend Thacle kidnap Henrique, a famous brazilian filmmaker, in order to get his help in the making of a movie on their home island.
Rafael embarks on a shabby blue Landau and crosses the city of São Paulo gathering truths and lies about the set of his uncle Tico, the already legendary proto-punk-satirical Knee of Porco.
A heavy rainstorm destroyed everything in the land where Jussara and her family inhabited. With no alternative, they moved to a big city.
In 1996, filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira started preproduction of Viva o Povo Brasileiro, a film adaptation of the novel by João Ubaldo Ribeiro. Principal photography went on for nine years, but the production was shut down after a series of unfortunate events. This documentary retells that story, repurposing the fictional footage and chronicling the work both in front and behind the scenes.
A retiree attempts to describe his routine as a resident of Copacabana, but the memories of his imprisonment in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp invade his narrative.
An emotional geographic reading of the city of São Paulo, created through hundreds of love stories from its residents. Neighborhoods, streets, parks and houses that sometimes no longer exist, or are invisible to most people, come to life in the stories told by the inhabitants.
Realized from the encounter of differences between the counselor governor from the indigenous reserve Sikuani El Merey-La Veradicta Margarita Rodriguez Weweli-Lukana and the urban-indigenous in a cultural recovery process, Juma Gitirana Tapuya Marruá. This video was an attempt of healing the colonial pain from those open wounds that hurt in us all, hum@n and non hum@n, nature from Abya Yala.
Film adaptation of the TV Show in 1994, based on the novel of the same name by Érico Veríssimo. During a general strike in the city of Antares, gravediggers refuse to carry out burials, to increase pressure on employers. During the night, however, the dead claim the right to be buried.
When a con man on the run gets mistaken for a poor church's visiting priest, he is tapped to lead the parish in a grand caroling for the holiday season.
Two torturers meet for coffee after more than thirty years without seeing each other, to settle accounts from that time.
A history of vendetta and redemption occurs in the vicinity of a road, when the trajectory of a young policeman from the Capital intersects with a sergeant.
Brazil, I want you so much, but I'm afraid. I love you, I desire you, but I hate you, deep down. I do not see the wonderful future that I see with you. You created this damn paradise with your debris and traumas. I do not know if my heart can handle you any longer. My Impossible Brazil.