A marginal version of Brecht’s piece, “Baal”.
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A marginal version of Brecht’s piece, “Baal”.
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.
Two fishermen Dogfish names Zé Cação and Lula discover the result of a theft of a dangerous gang of smugglers and go immediately to be persecuted by them. In pursuit of the bandits is also the federal agent Carlos, passionate young Diana, of which the fishermen meet and become friends. The action takes place on board the Fishermen, however, when the weather warms there comes the pirate Long John Silver, who is looking for a fabulous map of a treasure that was hidden on a nearby island. The map, now divided into two parts, it becomes cause for persecution, with plenty of good humor and adrenaline, which changed hands throughout the film and leading everyone to the island where the treasure was buried.
Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building across the street, and ends up getting involved with the suspect in a potentially dangerous chain of events that will force her to take stock of her life.
In a future where 75% of humanity lives in a virtual reality and the rest remains on an abandoned Earth, an artificial intelligence is unable to recreate images of the physical world. Helena, one of the few people still living outside, is called upon to teach the machine what it cannot comprehend: reality.
A scientist swaps the mind of banker and an idiot by accident.
Diana is a successful and happily married woman. At least that's what she thinks until she finds out that her husband is cheating on her with a young aspiring dancer.
Documentary about violence in games.
Freak society of mutants is shaken by the birth of a normal being and starts to exploit him financially. Movie partially shot and never finished.
Famous soap opera actress finds out her sexuality after breaking up with her former boyfriend, an important TV executive.
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.
On the industrial outskirts of São Paulo’s ABC region, Maria Domingas, an exhausted factory worker, breaks away from her routine for the first time: instead of going straight home, she stops at a bar. There, under the weight of the silence and oppression of her time, an encounter opens a mysterious window to tenderness and humanity in her life.
Maria Fernanda (Julia Testoni), a young entrepreneur with bipolar disorder, ends her partnership with her friend Sandra at their advertising agency. Through their phone conversations, we discover that the real reason involves a crime they committed at their former job.
Every day Benjamin drives his car through the city streets and intersections.
Invented by the post-New Wave, the exercise is well-known: put a filmmaker in the frame, make him talk about his career, evoke his admirations, rummage in his methods, and add words to silences, spoken images to seen images. It’s always very instructive. As is the case here too. Chantal Akerman, passing through South America, talks about herself for an hour, and it’s fascinating. Even if her recalling of the relationship between the cinema and time makes up only a few rare minutes.
Six new stories emerge in the new feature film from the Stranger Tales franchise, bringing the theme of Demons and Possessions.
Documentary on Rosamaria Murtinho and Mauro Mendonça’s 60-year long career in Brazilian theater, film and television. The film not only runs through the career of these artists, but also paints a portrait of a generation that rose alongside them and that works with art till this day.
After taking a pill that makes him relive memories, Elias returns to the last moment with his first love, ready to face, years later, the true reason for their breakup.
Jonas Aquino is a 16-year-old boy who is unhappy for not being popular on social networking websites. Until his virtual profile comes to life and becomes everything Jonas has always dreamed of: a good-looking guy with several friends and 'likes.
The elderly Perpetua, feeling the approach of death, decides to prepare Zeca, her beloved grandson, to the inevitable. She tells him the story of a king and a queen, a wealthy and powerful couple who lost their only child but wishes to bring him back to life. Meanwhile, Damião e Josefa work hard to support their family and to prepare their daughter Fátima's wedding. At the end, the tale told by Perpétua and the destiny of that family will cross.
Future memories take shape on an ordinary night in Goiás. In the backyard of her grandmother’s house, Caju, a 10-year-old child, will spend her first sleepless night with the friends of her uncle Tiago, a rebellious young man.
Racked with anxiety in the chaotic political landscape of 1990s Brazil, Clara finds solace in starving herself, experiencing both rapture and torture. In this elliptical non-fiction film, anorexia becomes a way for Clara to challenge womanhood and find a place in an uncertain, surreal, and brutal world.
A view on the issues of misogyny, feminicide and how it affects and harms women around the world. The documentary presents the stories of real women who survived the abuse from their spouses, and a performance from three actresses who play the victims that didn't make it.
The growing desire between Sandro and Maicon.
Hammurabi tells the story of Vitão, a boy who works as a delivery boy. Outraged by the poor working conditions, Vitão decides to steal one of the deliveries from the Arab restaurant Hammurabi. This seemingly simple robbery triggers a chain reaction when a dealer receives a message to fetch packages of drugs from the same building as Vitão. Due to a simple typo, the dealer ends up going to Vitão’s apartment and putting the boy in the middle of a much bigger mess than he could have imagined.
Bola was always known for his peculiar laugh, and his friend, César, often shared it on social media. When a trauma caused by the pandemic makes Bola lose his laugh, it’s up to César to make him laugh again.
Andréia, trapped in abusive relationship with deceitful Pedro, discovers motorcycling. She transforms her life, finding support from free-spirited Michael. Together, they journey through challenges, pursuing an authentic, passionate life.
Everything that can be imagined can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected of dreams is a puzzle that hides a desire, or the opposite, a fear.
Fernanda Paes Leme (herself), a famous actress and TV personality in Brazil, feels overwhelmed and unaccomplished despite her thriving career. Just as she decides to play a Hamlet adaptation to find a lost sense of meaning, she has her social media accounts stolen by an identical doppelganger. Business flourishes as a quarantined Fernanda investigates who stole her identity and why, as she tries to redefine herself personally and professionally.
A brief occurrence at the hospital waiting room.
'Inexorável' is an intense narrative that delves into the complex relationships between genders and the tensions of a journalist's workplace in the midst of an urban violence scenario. The story revolves around a woman (Érica Carneiro) whose determination is as tangible as the emotional intensity she carries. As an investigative reporter at a downtown newspaper, she is committed to uncovering the truth and exposing injustice.
The depressed Miguel hosts a dinner with a childhood friend, but is surprised by the presence of his ex, Leticia, who redefines the night by bringing up an old sexual memory.
Nereu is an upper-middle class university student. He is a young gay man trapped in a time that is not his. Antônio is less idealistic.
Romantic comedy...
Recorded live directly from Allianz Parque (São Paulo) on June 18, 2023, this Titãs' show celebrates the band's 40th anniversary, on this great (re)encounter tour.
In an apocalyptic reality, the film proposes a visual metaphor based on Nature's revenge
Those who enjoy hot baths inhale its warmth, which penetrates their spirits. This makes them joyful and often leads them to sing (Ibn Khaldun, 1377).
The art of Arrigo Barnabé, one of the pillars of the São Paulo experimental music scene during the 80's and author of critically acclaimed albums such as "Clara Crocodilo" (1980) and "Tubarões Voadores" (1984).
This story begins with Marcelo's funeral. His family, his fiancée Lúcia and three suspicious men are the only people accompanying the coffin. By night, at home, Rosa, Ricardo and Lúcia notice something strange: Marcelo's room has been completely ransacked. Suddenly, the phone rings. Rosa answers and hears the voice of her son who had just died. The shock is too strong for the poor lady, who dies of a syncope. To understand these sinister events, we have to go back three days...
Roberto Pontes, a private detective, is hired to prove a case of infidelity in a distant town. But on his way back to his office in the dead of night, he stops at a roadside hotel for the night, where a far more haunting mystery awaits him.
Ian and Lucas are childhood friends who discover that love can be changeable and that you can't go back when the feeling is ingrained.
Thamirys and Raphael are filming the short film "Peixe Vivo", starring their children Agatha and Gustavo - two 8-year-old trans children.
In the 40s, a sergeant is ordered to escort a political prisoner from Paulo Afonso to Aracaju, Brazil. During the trip, there's a change in the Government and he is ordered to release the prisoner. But he decides to go all the way.
A homeless man struggles to get by in the utopian city of Brasília.
Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says goodbye to his friends and begins a routine of long days of treatment in hospital. While learning to live with the pain and also conversing with death, he meets a Hindu boy who is a fellow patient and who becomes his friend. But one day the boy disappears. Diego is discharged, but his life has changed forever. His marriage fails and, living alone, he begins to wonder whether he may in fact be dying and no one has told him. He tries to find out what happened to his Hindu friend, and eventually meets another woman.