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Delving into the world of funk from the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, Na Batida follows a participatory journey in which the filmmakers themselves become characters. The documentary seeks to capture the essence of funk, revealing the social, cultural and emotional impact of this musical movement.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my Soul to take.
Documents former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's visit to the the women's alley of Tiradentes Jail in the city of São Paulo, also known as "Torre das Donzelas" ("Damsels' Tower"). Alongside other women, Dilma was kept as prisoner in there during the 1970s, when Brazil was under a reign of terror during its military dictatorship years. They all meet again 45 years later to break the silence and the fear of speaking out the horrors they lived under a ruthless dictatorship.
Letter Beyond the Walls reconstructs the trajectory of HIV and AIDS with a focus on Brazil, through interviews with doctors, activists, patients and other actors, in addition to extensive archival material. From the initial panic to awareness campaigns, passing through the stigma imposed on people living with HIV, the documentary shows how society faced this epidemic in its deadliest phase over more than two decades. With this historical approach as its base, the film looks at the way HIV is viewed in today's society, revealing a picture of persistent misinformation and prejudice, which especially affects Brazil’s most historically vulnerable populations.
Dório faces the end of a life full of errors and regrets, Marco only lives to see where life will lead him to, Almeida wants to take justice into his own hands. They all meet in an unique kind of moment, «the right moment».
Carlos finds himself troubled by a powerful restlessness. At the same time his analyst is obsessed with the idea that he should delete Carlos in order to save his island. An island is, by excellence, a troubled territory. Piece of land separated off the mainland or territory emerging and arising from the center of the world shocks : re- integrate into the sea is the ghost that haunts all the islands. There is in this tense relationship between sea and island, an opposition between civilization and destruction, shape and inform, culture and chaos united in a loving and eschatological tribute to Carlos Reichenbach, Lucio Fulci and Andrzej Zulawski.
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.
Three desperate stories about working life in São Paulo.
The story of Osvaldo, the first DJ in Brazil.
The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the vessel. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura that was his classmate. Meanwhile the cynical chamber maid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, the entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip and poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça that affects their honeymoon.
Four candidates for a federal judge position embark on a madcap, no-holds-barred race to outdo one another, each committing his own brand of mayhem.
The film follows a few days in the life of a young actress who has lost her sight, but who tries to be independent, also addressing the tension and trust between the protagonist and a student hired to help her.
Denílson always wanted to be an acclaimed filmmaker and be in the spotlight. Even with the support of his female colleagues, the lack of resources, or talent, leads the trio down a dark path saturated with gruesome practices.
Family's party.
A poet and his walk through a future of the dystopian present.
Mina (Priscila Fantin) is arrested for defrauding the Social Security and beyond to defend the other inmates need to escape from the prison director of surveillance (Tuca Andrada). The crime involved a Senator (Antonio Calloni), trying in every way to prevent your participation to surface.
Pedro has to get up early to work every day, but his fear of sleeping turns his nights into a nightmare. (Winner of best Sound Design in Rio de Janeiro "Oscarito" Short-film festival 2018)
Who said a couple must be made only of two? For Patrick, Naara e John Eugene, life is a perfect threesome. But, if relationships are already complicated for two, life with three can be a mess. They are pinkdolphinlovers: they love each other, they love life and they love the pink dolphins.
Thiago and Guilherme, two teenage cousins from São Paulo, Brazil, are disturbed by their grandfather's funeral. To avoid the unpleasantness surrounding the event, they run away to the families cabin, taking their friend Priscila with them.
Alice Segretto is more agitated than ever. The success of her chain of stores Sexy Delícia takes the businesswoman on a tour around the world. Working endlessly, Alice realizes that she has not been able to keep up with her family, which has also grown. Conflict sets in: how to reconcile this insane life with her family? Impetuously, Alice makes a curious decision, deciding to retire and hand over the business to her mother. But when a competitor comes up with a plan to steal the scene, Alice's life is once again flipped legs in the air.
A gritty observation of precarious romance, debauchery, and heartbreak between addicts living in a São Paulo hotel.
During a commemorative meeting, Sofia, the only daughter, finds herself clashing with the behavior of her conservative family members and realizes all the hypocrisy that hides behind a family lunch.
A neighborhood populated by ghosts of a relationship and a tradition.
Five documentary filmmakers were invited to dive into the collection of the Museu da Pessoa and to propose rereadings and authorclippings from the life stories of Brazilians who passed through the museum.
Memories of the year 1997.
Documentary about “Os Mulheres Negras” , the world´s third smallest big band, discussing music, aesthetics and creation in Brazil from the 80´s till nowadays.
In this biblical "Hangover" spoof, the apostles awaken to find Jesus is missing and must piece together events of the previous night's wild Last Supper.
A stranger arrives to the small town of Passo Fundo, south of Brazil. And he's on a manhunt of a killer that turns in a giant drug conspiracy running by an international conglomerate.
Fordlandia is a small settlement on the River Tapajos in the Brazilian part of the Amazon, where Henry Ford set up a rubber industry in the 1920s. Mainly due to the resistance of nature, the project failed and was abandoned some 20 years later. Fordlandia is a voyage of (de)colonisation whereby the drifts and detours of modernity in uncertain places are highlighted, turning away from whatever their historical imaginaries were. The tensions between industrial and natural landscape are levelled off in a certain horizontality of hierarchies between form and content, and at the same time the animal resignifies possibilities of the community of the living.
Paula Fernandes: Live is the first live album and fifth overall in the singer's Paula Fernandes . It was released in 2011 and just over five months of release, it reached the milestone of more than one million copies sold in Brazil, according to ABPD, besides being among the 10 most sold in Brazil. In Portugal reached the top of the musical table Portuguese Phonographic Association . The CD and DVD together have sold 1 million and 250 thousand copies in Brazil.
After a fire destructed my house, I return to the places where I grew up looking for childhood recollections. In this journey appears the memory of a photo for Karin Eitel, a young woman, tortured and detained during the dictatorship, to whom I owe my name. A story that my parents never told me, brings me closer to Karin and not just because of my name. In the background, the memory of a childhood in Chile, a country that reconstructed its democracy omitting its own history.
Singer that so speaks to the moon / my story is the same as yours / my love also ran away.
Short film based on a "two-line horror story" found on the internet.
This a documentary film on Afghanistan and the effects of wars of the last 38 years. Malalai Joya, Afghan activist for human rights, democracy and women's rights, speaks to the atrocities committed against Afghans by Soviets, local Warlords, Taliban, and now USA and NATO presence in the country. Many victims of these atrocious wars tell their stories. A film by Pronesis Institute of Audiovisual and Social Change and Cine Cinematográfica of Brazil.
Documentary about the cinema that formed the Paissandu Generation, in the 60s, and the cultural and social impact of that period for the country's history.
More unpleasant, more putrid, more fetid. And unnecessary.
A philosophical inquiry about the miracle, through the interview with three specialists that seek to understand the specificity of these phenomena.
In the mid-1990s, the Brazilian government handed over control of its railroads to the private sector. There was then a reduction of passenger train lines to almost zero and shrinkage of the rail freight network. The machinists, who once traveled with an assistant, began to work completely on their own in their long journeys. The film presents a subjective view on the daily life of these professionals and their solitary routine in the midst of a grandiose, tedious, desolate and at the same time passionate universe.
By the pool, Toby faces the fear of talking to the beautiful Tina.
Gloria, a successful and happy transvestite, lives far from her sister Grace. When Grace discovers she has a terminal illness, the two try to bring their families closer together to re-establish the relationship between the cousins.
We are in the Sahara, in Rio de Janeiro, but it could be Beirut!
An unpublished painting, the meeting of two geniuses in a single painting arrives to the museum at a rainy night. The museum caretaker observes the work of art being brought to the lounge where it will be exhibited to the public. The wet box drips on the paint, the paint softens and releases the conjoined painters who walk around the museum intervening on the works of art in a Cubist and Surrealist manner. The caretaker "chases" our painters in a classic cartoon chasing, using the Renaissance mechanisms to restore the order.
Two university friends, from the outskirts of Fortaleza, make a meeting in a chic Café in the city. The meeting changes agenda when one of them is mistaken for burglar.
Guy ends his relationship, re-encounter his best friend in school and the both start looking for girls while the nerd best friends thinks they're in a movie.
Heleno walks through the morgue corridor, in search for the missing hustler. Text by Brazilian writer Marcelino Freire.
Augusto is the chef of a fine restaurant, established for years, which is down due to the success of a former pupil, Patrick, who works in a food truck right in the square in front of the establishment. . Due to the situation, the bank, which is also a partner in the restaurant, appoints the strict Cristina to be the new manager. She immediately runs into Augusto, as she wants to change the local routine in order to make it profitable. But, amidst the pressure to create a new menu, Augusto starts to have a rare syndrome that makes him lose his taste buds.
A Brazilian diplomat realises that he has almost unconsciously assembled a unique and important collection of East German art. Concerned about his country's treatment of culture and feeling responsible for this amazing piece of art history, he has to make up his mind what to do with it.
Surrounded by solitude a homeless walks through streets and abandoned buildings searching for food to survive. But what he fears most is to be found.
Adapted from the series aired in 2001. Looking for inspiration during the holidays, Nando sees Anita as the ideal character for his novel. She lives in a townhouse where a passionate crime happened in the past. Intense, Anita seduces Nando and awakens to