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Cia de Teatro Corpo & Alma presents The Sound of Music.

In a housing complex on the outskirts, Mago heads a band of young people enticing and committing crimes amid a war of factions reported by the radio waves. Nazaré and Naldin are faced with the violence of this conflict, as both are in the wrong place: the gaza strip.

During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns to the farm. The film is divided in five short horror stories.

An off-color joke nearly cost him everything. Brazilian comic Rafinha Bastos talks about that and much more, from his divorce to finding love again.

Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, February 24th 2011. Isabel Burlan da Silva, the director’s mother, is brutally murdered by her partner. “Elegy of a Crime” is the final chapter of Cristiano Burlan’s “Mourning Trilogy, about the tragic family history. Faced with impunity, the film plunges into a dizzying journey to rebuild Isabel's image and life.

The youth of Anita Garibaldi, portrayed in her humanity, with the simple life of an ordinary and very poor citizen. From a young age, the girl already showed courage. Over the years, she becomes a brave and libertarian warrior who overthrew paradigms of her time.

An undocumented Brazilian immigrant living in the Boston area decides to buy a car in an effort to better his life before returning home.

Euller Miller is a young native Brazilian of kaiwá ethnicity who leaves his small village just outside of Dourados (MS) to study dentistry at a public university in the crowded capital city of the state of Paraná. The film follows the complex transition between two very different worlds and the search for new horizons without abandoning his indigenous roots.

Two friends, filmmaker Miguel and actor Rodrigo, win the grand prize of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. After drinking too much, Rodrigo signs a lifetime contract to star in Miguel's next film. Miguel mysteriously disappears and comes back ten years later proposing to make a delirious film retelling his adventure in the years he'd been gone. Rodrigo is already famous and fears risking his career, but he has no alternative but to comply.

Five directors with five completely different cinematic styles go on an affectionate journey through each one of the five states bathed by the gigantic São Francisco River. Faith, passions, legends and the search for survival in the riverside communities of this river full of colors, which cuts through the dry hinterlands and flows into the exuberant sea of Northeastern Brazil.

During one of the longest state college strikes in Brazil, a professor decides to register a diary and ends up obsessed.

Five stories that tell how a handful of football stars took the risk of losing everything and put their fate in the balance to make a difference by becoming the symbol of a fight.

Valdomiro gets involved in yet another scheme, this time involving the same people that tricked him into losing everything - and he brings everyone from Ms. Jô's hostel along.

Bianca is an old, middle-class prostitute, tired of her profession and in menopause, but her only way of making a living is by working for her pimp, Paulo Ana lives an unhappy marriage with Roberto, but does not have the strength to take control of her life and change her situation.The delicate encounter between Bianca and Ana, creates, for the first time in their lives, courage, hope and a desire for a new destiny where oppression gives way to happiness and enchantment.

Based on a montage of mandatory political propaganda for the 1989 presidential election, the film presents a debate on politics in the country through a reflection on the speeches of the main candidates.

The story follows important moments in the life of Angenor de Oliveira, known as Cartola. From his childhood in middle-class neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro to his move to Morro da Mangueira, passing through his complicated family relationships and his first compositions.

Three short stories about abuses and the perversity of the human being.

In a roadside store, a man lives in peace with their pets. In the basement, the mice steal food, but not enough to hurt the business. The arrival of a stranger mouse ends the grocery harmony.

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

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The plot revolves around a veteran prostitute who turns into an insect.

Saturday night, the Brazilian Midwest. Jean is a redneck listening to a local radio station where listeners send their messages of love.

"Levante" won Canal Futura's annual documentary competition in 2014 and was filmed in Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Gaza and Hong Kong. It first aired at 22pm on the 25th June on Canal Futura. The film is about inspiring people around the world who use technology to speak out against injustice such as Filipe Peçanha from Midia Ninja who used the Japanese Twitcasting app to broadcast the Brazilian protests of 2013 from his smartphone, Noor Harazeen from Palestine who created the first English-speaking youtube news channel in Gaza, and Howard Kong from the Apple Daily newspaper in Hong Kong who used a drone to film the conflicts between police and protesters in 2014.

The Prologue focuses on the use of political propaganda shown in the cinema and the television in the 1960's and throws light on the short films cult that were exhibited before the cinema sessions in Brazil.

A gang of young dirt bikers on a ride across an isolated region of Brazil find themselves being hunted by a machete wielding band of motorcyclists intent on killing them all.

In January 1990, at the age of 33, the artist José Leonilson starts registering an intimate journal in a tape recorder. His views on events that shook both Brazil, such as the resignation of former president Collor, and overseas, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, permeate his confessions. He also talks about his impressions on the various movies he used to watch. The records of this sensitive artist in tune with modern life did not intend, at first, anything more than register the harmony that existed between his life and his peculiar and intimate work. However, J.L. suffers the unexpected blow of the discovery that he himself is HIV positive. The uncertainty and urgency in his life begin to permeate his reports.

Street vendor Denilson's life changes when his father dies and leaves him his entire legacy. Along with the fortune, however, Denilson also inherits the family that will do everything to get their hands on this inheritance.

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.

Carlinhos, a dreamy boy who loves cinema, wants to make a horror film in the small town where he lives, Ipiaú, in the interior of Bahia. With the help of his school friends and the encouragement of the owner of a video store, Carlinhos dedicates himself to making his dream come true.

Rita sings a city with different facades and corners. Faced with the huge amount of murders in Rio de Janeiro, certain places reveal that the past is a present and spaces emanate our history.

Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries to make his way through life, with its first sexual experiences, his depressed brother and his self-centered parents. It’s a humorous homage to the pitfalls of daily life and the diversity of life.

A homage to Virgin Mary by brazilian women.

If I didn’t blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but... this is me.

An astronaut floats lost in the vastness of space awaiting help

Filmed in Rio de Janeiro, the film follows the World Cup from the point of view of two groups of young people from Rio: one that meets at the traditional fan stronghold in the Tijuca neighborhood, Alzirão, and the other made up of young people from the Frente Nacional dos Torcedores. While the first group dedicates itself to decorating its street in green and yellow, adorning it with banners and setting up a large screen to welcome thousands of fans, the other has an important political role on the streets, questioning the process of elitizing football, the high ticket prices and the billions spent on stadium renovations.

A young Slovenian girl arrives in Brazil right before the outbreak of World War II. She is alone, single, has left the family and her great love back home, with the promise of returning in one year. Unable to return, she settles down and has a new family and a new life in Brazil. Vida, which means 'life', is her name and she is the director's grandmother who returns to Slovenia with her granddaughter 73 years after her arrival in Brazil. Their journey, the family journey, has a different nature: subjective, poetic and emotional. A journey that struggles to retain unstable memories, relieving feelings and discovering what is hidden in our souls.

Two strangers visit the penthouse of a recently deceased lover, only to find themselves learning more about each other.

Two kids serving detention discuss the right way to summon Blondie, an old Brazilian urban legend. One of them tries. It works.

Observational documentary about people as refugees and asylum seekers in many geographical locations such as Germany, Brazil, Western Sahara, Myanmar, Cuba, South Sudan.

As he does every single day, Elon goes to meet his wife at her workplace, but she is not there. He doesn’t find her at home as well, so he starts to retrace the path Madalena makes daily. In the morning after, Elon goes to the police station and files a report, runs into hospitals, morgues. Alone, he wanders through a metropolis, searching for news about the sudden and mysterious disappearance of his wife.

A woman leaves her career in dancing to dedicate her life to her husband, a famous politician. Fifteen years after, she leaves her luxurious life to resume what she left behind years ago.

Documents the quilombo martial art of Jucá, paying homage to expert practitioner Mestre Ernestino.