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Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age. One day, Bia storms into his life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the company of a girl.

Silvia is an introspective young girl who is not interested in the daily routine between family and school. Everything abruptly changes when Artur arrives unexpectedly in her class, after being banned from several other schools. Silvia is amazed by the vitality of the boy, who actually suffers from a serious illness – hemophilia. The two immerse themselves in an intense and brief coexistence, interrupted by an accident in which Artur’s bleeds to death. Silvia gets sick and sees her life turn into a strange nightmare. The mourning gradually becomes an obsession, and obsession becomes a goal – Silvia will do anything to bring him back to life.

Amanda, an introverted 12 year-old swimming athlete, finds safety in her own world: underneath the water. Lacking attention from her parents, she spends most of the time at the swimming pool, training and trying to succeed in maybe the only thing she truly loves. Priscila, an amazing swimmer, becomes her opponent, not only in the pool also in life. A subtle power game begins.

In an apocalyptic reality, the film proposes a visual metaphor based on Nature's revenge

It's Sérgios's birthday. His friends, the guests, the music, all the party are calling him to celebrate. However, Sérgio doesn't seem to be so comfortable.

A documentary that chronicles the story of Blitz, one of the most famous Brazilian 80s rock bands known for their humorous, irreverent lyrics and free spirited attitude.

Adriano is an honest prison guard who is averse to violence. He tries to keep the prison peaceful, even though he is struggling with major family problems. The arrival of Abdel, a dangerous international terrorist, increases the tension in the prison, which is already experiencing days of terror due to the fight between two criminal factions. Now, Adriano will have to face a rebellion and control Abdel's every move.

During Christmas lunch, two boys plan to sacrifice a bully relative to an imaginary god who lives in a well.

A young teacher sensitizes herself to the strange case of Gustavo, the "MUTE".

When Maurício becomes a student at a top medical school, he becomes obsessed with a mystery linked to the dead bodies used for dissection.

Returning from work, Jonas starts to suffer from a stomachache and, to make things worse, none of the elevators are available to use. The situation requires patience, but will his intestines allow for it?

The film documents the construction of political thinking of the newest candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Brazil by the female PARTY, the actress Georgette Fadel, from her relationship with an unusual troupe of ten people who accompany her on an initiatory journey in search of hers greatest reference, Pepe Mujica, in Uruguay.

A blind man witnesses a homicide and is followed to his house by the murderer

Pedro, a 70-year-old gay nurse, is taking care of Daniela, his ailing transgender friend. In order to find her a vacant hospital bed, he decides to help an arrested and wounded criminal to escape.

When numerous schools in São Paulo were slated to be closed in 2015 as a result of the worsening socio-political crisis, students occupied more than a thousand public buildings in an unprecedented act of self-empowerment. Filmmaker Eliza Capai shows the development of the many-voiced protests, using news excerpts, self-conducted interviews and recordings made with activists’ own cell phone cameras. From the first demonstrations in 2013 and continuing all the way to the election of the extreme right-wing presidential Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, Capai’s highly political work becomes more and more relevant with each passing day.

The documentary follows the commemorative tour for the 20th anniversary of singer Jorge Vercillo's career.

In Brazil of yore, ex-humans feed on a fleeting drug.

A journalist goes to the interior of the state of Espirito Santo to meet "Vinillis frutiferis", a tree whose fruits are vinyl records and that the hummingbirds, with their beaks, need to play the music. In a game between reality and fiction, we find stories of villagers who preserve this species.

Desires and frustrations emerge from the encounter of two characters, Miguel (a filmmaker) and Alano (a rent boy), where Alano’s pursuit of pleasure contrasts with Miguel’s quest for company.

When she arrives in a new world, Isabela is tasked with discovering her true essence. Watched by Shadow, the guardian of this ghostly place, Isabela meets other travelers and reevaluates her memories, relationships and emotions.

Collection of small moments from the daily life of the artist and quilombola leadership Nadir da Mussuca, who lives in the city of Laranjeiras and is one of the most important folklorists in Sergipe.

A poetic and intimate look at the life and work of photographer Luis Humberto.

Behind the scenes of Bacurau (2019)'s shooting and pre-production. With exclusive images, directors Kléber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles show how they made the film an audience and critical success.

Men and plants have always traveled together in a reciprocal relationship that - for better or for worse - has drastically transformed the world. The mythical cacao tree, native to the Amazon Basin, has spread throughout the world along the narrow equatorial belt. Planted on a large scale using forced labor, the history of cacao has always been linked to the dark side of industrial production and the greed of the mass markets. The director Margarida Cardoso ("The Murmuring Coast", "Yvone Kane", "Kuxa Kanema, the birth of Cinema", "Christmas 71") follows the path of his previous films, exploring and revealing the relations between the brutality of colonial history and its effects in the present.

Tania learns that her grandmother spent the last years of her life in the loving company of an alien. Together with two friends, she travels through rural Argentina to bring the creature back to its place of origin.

A documentary film about the Brazilian town of Toritama, the self-proclaimed capital of jeans. The workers of the city’s self-managed small businesses only get one real break from their self-exploiting lives in the textile business: the annual Carnival.

Two assassins are waiting in a terrible hotel room for their boss after their last service didn't go as planned. Conflict increases as time passes.

A boy wakes up in an unusual situation and tries to understand what really happened to him.

“I was really young when I was first raped. I thought of telling this story someday, the story behind this picture. I lacked the courage. If the film could speak for me, then, I could.”

Story about the imposing building Edifício São Vito, a mark on the center of São Paulo gentrification system. The building was demolished in 2011, with many families being deallocated after an agreemente with the city town that was never accomplished.

A nostalgic pianist must face his most bittersweet childhood memories in order to move forward in his music and life.

Inspired by a true story, the animation is an intimate confession of a person living with HIV.

Roberto, divorced with a failing business, his son Itay, a spoiled child that snubs his father and despises soccer, and the grandfather Samuel, an enthusiastic soccer fan that recently found out he doesn’t have much time to live, depart spontaneously to the World Cup Games in Brazil- their former homeland. Their unplanned trip turns into an emotional journey that changes all of them forever.

Angela collects diagnostics of diseases she has never had, but a new friendship might bring this peculiar collection to an end.

A drunk missing man. A locked refrigerator. A fingernail in a meatloaf. A suspicious situation.

A gritty observation of precarious romance, debauchery, and heartbreak between addicts living in a São Paulo hotel.

A group of friends from São Paulo head for a secluded beach to celebrate New Year’s. Together they relax, sunbathe and make music. And they talk: about their sexuality, their bodies, their hair, their youth, their fears, certainties and uncertainties, as anyone does sometimes with good friends. Along the way, we learn a lot about contemporary Brazil.

Brazil, the first week of 2019. A new president takes office in a scenario of fanaticism, prejudice, and violence. Locked in a hotel room, two teenagers decide to change the course of their lives, before it’s too late.

A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river.

It’s dripping through the ceiling, the space for sleeping is scarce. Under poor living conditions, a young mother handles everyday life with her two daughters in the Brazilian suburb as best she can. When they unexpectedly acquire a load of frog legs, this gives rise to a celebration that will not soon be forgotten.

At the eastern end of the city of São Paulo, poetry is a reality.

Brazilian YouTube sensation Whindersson Nunes revisits his humble beginnings and much more in a series of playful stories and peculiar songs.

He buried his pain deeply, but it insists on coming back.

Álvaro Cordeiro, a failed and depressed writer, fights against a creative block that keeps him from writing his next book. Leonel Carraça, producer of popular television works, discovers Álvaro and invites him to write his next novel. The writer resists the invitation, believing that his talent is to write the classic "great literature." However, financial difficulties make him accept.

Donana, a midwife with more than half a century of experience, represents the resistance of tradition and humanization to childbirth in the region of São Gonçalo do Amarante, in Rio Grande do Norte. Owner of a strong personality, she shares her wisdom, acquired over the years as a midwife, mother, saint mother, godmother, woman. Like the chanana, a flower that grows in the middle of the concrete and is underestimated for its fragile appearance, Donana teaches us to remain firm despite the adversities of life.

Extracts is a short film with images from 1970 to 1972 in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, London, Marrakech, Rabat and the Sahara Desert region. The images were filmed by Helena Ignez and Rogério Sganzerla in exile, in the "leaden years" of the military dictatorship.

Grounded in his room for having done a thousand and one antics at his school in recent days, Thomas - a boy stuck with a bully - is faced with a mysterious book left by his sister in his room. When reading the book's name aloud, "Tell Your Story or Deliver Your Soul," Thomas begins a fantastic and terrifying journey that will make him reflect on the disrespectful way he treats his friends and schoolmates.

Created by Ricardo Ghiorzi ("The Curse of Sanguanel", "Beyond the Grave"), HISTÓRIAS ESTRANHAS (Stranger Tales) is a suspense/horror/fantasy collection of eight segments produced by independent film companies and directed by the most promising filmmakers of the Brazilian fantastic genre today.