Julia is a young musicist obsessed with perfection. Even hearing her performing through the stage, she can't scape the feeling that something is missing. Her mind breaks and what was music becomes just noise.
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Julia is a young musicist obsessed with perfection. Even hearing her performing through the stage, she can't scape the feeling that something is missing. Her mind breaks and what was music becomes just noise.
Following in his deceased brother's footsteps, power-hungry drug lord Evandro embarks on a ruthless rise to power in Brazil's crime-ridden favelas. Evandro's ascension puts him on a collision course with Victor, a reckless detective with nothing to lose.
On the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to survive he tries to convince the Indians that he is not Portuguese (their enemies) but a friend of the French (their allies), and that his God would be very angry if they were to eat him.
Portraying the drag scene in São Paulo, the film presents the transformation of marginalized status to the drag queens mainstream and features testimonials and presentations by national artists and former participants of RuPaul's Drag Race. More than characters in the entertainment of the night, drag queens show that the plurality of art has no limits.
Middle-class teenage girl has a serious boyfriend that her parents approve of. Suddenly, she meets another boy with whom she is shown to have a greater identification.
A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undisclosed business to attend to.
A revolutionary, fighting against dictatorship in Brazil, is wounded in a gun-fight with the police, and is isolated in another man's apartment, where he meets a young woman who will change his life.
The plot deals with the developments in an old decadent village after a stranger arrives at the old train station, an event in itself. This stranger is a Brazilian musician who carries and plays his "oboe". The music from the oboe, the musician's instrument, will change the lives of everyone involved, and that small village itself will forever be changed by the sound of the oboe.
Through the recovery of found Super-8mm footage captured by his brother during the 70´s dictatorship, André tries to revive the memories of his father, who’s been waiting for his missing son for over 30 years.
Fernanda meets with her ex-girlfriend to return objects left behind after the end. During this encounter, the intense feelings come back to the surface.
The drama tells the story of Cristina, a poor girl who longs for better days, but in life Cristina carries a pain, the death of her mother during her birth and the abandonment of her father a few days after her birth.
A film like a monument: Luz nos Trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the forests of New England in winter, celebrating the indigenous peoples of continental America and flowing as a film as freely as a winding river.
During the pandemic, introverted painter Hélio meets aspiring model Theo and begins a report that will make him face his deepest insecurities in a way he never imagined.
When a child is forced to become the house's adult because her father is sick and her mother is dead, there's an inversion in the natural order of things. Childhood becomes a saga. And the frustrated parenthood turns into a conviction.
After spending years in prison for a crime that shocked the country, a former rock star finds refuge in a humble evangelical church. All he wants is to be forgotten, but his past comes back to haunt him.
The Devil himself comes to Earth to open his own church and the world becomes a pandemonium of delights and confusions. Based on a short story by Machado de Assis, the most famous realistic Brazilian writer of the XIX century.
Living in the countryside of the Amazon in Brazil, Argentinian María divides herself between two lives: in the community, where she lives with Dona Belém and her son, and on her suspicious trips.
A documentary about the 1979 workers strike.
The trajectory and artistic imagery of actor and director Zbigniew Ziembinski (1908-1978), precursor of modern theater in Latin America and master of generations of Brazilian actors. The polyphonic montage builds on vast unpublished material, covering half a century of performances, teletheaters and interviews by Zimba, as he was known – before and after fleeing Poland, on the eve of the invasion of Warsaw – and recreates fragments of Wedding Dress , a play by Nelson Rodrigues which the Polish-Brazilian director won a revolutionary montage in 1943.
To commemorate the anniversary of the city where he lives, a theater director must stage a play on a great actress from the past that will bring to mind German colonization in the nineteenth century. Resolved he will win the part as main character, the actor who is to play the part of colonizer subverts the director?s script, and introduces scenes on ethnocide and Nazism into the text. These subjects are even today to be avoided in that prosperous valley in the south of Brazil. His attitude obliges the director to stage a play different from the one that had been written for the occasion.
Countryman J.K. gets annoyed and quits his job on a farm when his boss sends his pet cow to a slaughterhouse in town. In search of the animal, J.K. goes to the city and, there, is harassed by several single women.
Nhô Quim has only one dream in his life: to eat red meat. He meets Carula, a young woman anxious to get married, who promises him that in their wedding her father will kill him an ox. But, before that, Nhô Quim must pass a series of tests.
A man in search of space.
"Scientists warn Bluetooth headphones may carry cancer risks." This headline faces a middle-class young man from Rio de Janeiro with moral dilemmas.
A murder investigation in a small rural town, marked by silences and loyalties, uncovers old secrets. Adoniran, a respected investigator, sees his life collapse when he goes from agent to prime suspect. While trying to prove his innocence, Saulo, Special Agent of Internal Affairs, returns to his hometown and must confront memories he would rather forget. Inner conflicts, fragile alliances, and unresolved recollections make the search for truth increasingly dangerous.
While a Carnival party takes place in the living room, Lu enters her mother's room looking for needle and thread to sew Tati's blouse strap.
During a trip to Brazil in 2022, Augusto (15), an introspective and dreamy young man, becomes enchanted by Antônio (16), a magnetic and unpredictable boy from Belém. Amid the heat of the World Cup and the waters reflecting a fleeting encounter, a fragile connection is born, stretching across distance when Augusto returns to Italy, turning desire into obsession. While Augusto loses himself in idealizations and the emptiness of delayed responses, Antônio continues his life between parties, friends, and fleeting loves. What begins as a promising romance crumbles under the weight of time, silence, and the things that were never said. As the years pass, Augusto is forced to face an inevitable truth: some loves do not belong to the future, they exist only in memory. An intimate and visceral portrait of love, loss, and growth, Anchorless delves into the fragility of first feelings and the pain of learning that not every story is destined to last.
Cosmo is a taxi driver who loves traveling around São Paulo. One day, when he meets Mauro in a bar, he receives an unusual proposal: to record testimonials from passengers in his taxi, in which people would talk about what they like in São Paulo.
An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth.
The film tells an reinterpretation of the Adam and Eve story from Genesis animated on statues of mirití.
Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, family, and people who worked with Person, she seeks to discover more than dates and biographical data.
A modern and independent girl, but when it comes to love, the only novels in her life are those from Jane Austen's literary universe. After using a borrowed cell phone, something mysterious happens and she is transported to a different world, which resembles the 19th century. Sofia is taken in by the family of the charming Ian Clarke, while desperately trying to find a way to return to her life. What she didn't know is that her heart had other plans.
A young wizard must create new spells in his magic book before the planets align. His uncle and aunt, powerful mages themselves, help him achieve that. Based on the award-winning Brazilian TV series.
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.
In the center of the city, Alain seeks to fill his void, while Miguel needs a place to stay.
Couple of lovers want to steal the income of a popular soccer game, at Maracanã Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro.
In crisis after killing an innocent during action in the favela, a police officer is introduced into the unit of the "Ninjas" - extermination group that is dedicated to sadistically eliminating suspects of violent crimes.
As the clock ticks away announcing the end of the year, the four members of a family reveal their inabilities and frustrations, their defeats and the monotony of a life that drags on in a solitary way, even as a group.
The film tells the story of a woman who lives in a village of mining workers.
A black and white film about the people who live near one of the world’s largest hydroelectric plants in Amazonia. In the shadow of this environmentally destructive project, they eke out involuntarily meagre lives, without electricity or infrastructure.
Documentary on the life and work of José Lins do Rego (1901-1957), one of Brazil's greatest 20th century literary authors, writer of celebrated novels "Menino de Engenho", "Fogo Morto", "Moleque Ricardo", "Riacho Doce" and many more.
A movie projectionist finds a mysterious can of film containing the warnings "do not open, do not project", and ends up releasing forces beyond his comprehension.
An elderly man, widowed and living alone at home for a long time, is looking for something to do with his time. Feeling lonely, he finds a way to get the community's attention and make himself important, even if in an unlikely way.
Ruy, a solitary surveyor, travels the harsh Pernambuco. His life is transformed when he meets three women from a mambembe circus, Madrinha, Jéssica and Diadorim. Through the history of these four characters, "Mambembe" deals with chance while reflecting on artistic construction.
The story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of the upper Amazonas state, after performing a “miracle” upon the suicide of his own mother. The film seeks to be an intimate picture of those who are involved in this sect and of the infinite human capacity of “fabricating” faith and seeking some sense in the horrifying experience of death.
A documentary that revisits the golden age of pagode, celebrating the musical genre that defined a generation and dominated parties, TV shows, and radio stations across Brazil. Through archival footage and testimonials from artists and behind-the-scenes figures, the film explores the phenomenon's roots, its meteoric rise, and the legacy that still resonates in today's music. In a nostalgic musical showcase featuring major names from the genre, timeless hits are reimagined, paying tribute to pagode's impact on Brazilian culture.
Eric is in love with his best friend Eduarda. But Michel is quicker and gets her heart first. At the kart tracks, Eric has a chance to beat his opponent in a wild competition. Love and speed, love for speed. Those were the Thunder Days.
It's carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Saulo is a gay werewolf who visits the enchanted lands of beauty and chaos in search of new prey. It's on the last night of the carnival festivities that he meets Gustavo, a new crush who could be his last prey. “Carne Fresca” is a carnival fable about werewolves and hunters in a marvelous city.
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.