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Based on real events, this story is about Andre, a teenager who's searching for his place in the world while fighting a battle with his religious family and his schoolmates. He found a shelter in Diego, but this love may not be what his mother wants for his life.
Six indigenous myths of the Kuikuro, Javaé and Kadiwéu tribes. Amongst the stories: The Emu, The Fish-Boy, The Faceless Women, The Milky Way, The Serpent-Girl and the Vulture-King.
The legendary Jose Mojica Marins, along with Marcelo Colaiacovo and Nilson Primitivo created this mind blowing experimental horror film. After two heart attacks in 2014, the Brazilian master is back with new footage and original script. These rare images were discovered by Marcelo Colaiacovo during his thirteen years of researching the Coffin Joe archives. It was during this time that Colaiacovo discovered several film cans full of unprocessed 35mm material from the 1970s - 1990s, some of which was used to create this short film. Using an experimental processing technique with assorted chemicals in his Resistência Filmes laboratory, Colaiacovo and Nilson Primitivo (King of the Brazilian Underground) worked together to ressurect these treasures to life.
Michel wants to go home.
A documentary in which the myth Toniolo, the best-known tagger in Porto Alegre, is unveiled. The film features exclusive interviews in which Toniolo himself tells his life and ideals.
Small, black and skinny, another street boy obeying the crook known as Parana, even unprotected and alone, he walks for hours in the dangerous streets of a nightly Sao Paulo, to deliver a mysterious package. As he goes in his journey suffering cold, distresses, loneliness and fear, Nego takes refuge into his thoughts, pictures of his life.
Gum is a child born and raised at Gamboa island. He admires his older brother, who works as baggage carrier for tourists. Gum wants to be like him.
Favela resident Ursinho, an overweight mixed race 30 year old introvert, fantasizes about his dream Adonis: one of Copacabana's high end male prostitutes.
Your eyes. Big, round and black. Later on they were still stuck on me. Like buttons.
Animated short film about a seaman's romance. (Other than the title, unrelated to Melville's classic novel.)
The Woman at the End of the World, inspired by the album "A Mulher do Fim do Mundo (2015)" by singer Elza Soares, tells the story of Benedita and the girl Lua, two black women who saw the old world succumb and are now the only ones survivors. In this post-apocalyptic scenario, the short film portrays a journey through the search for breaking the silence, thinking about the innumerable processes of silence passed by the characters in the old world. In this sense, the end of the world is also a character, being the personification of a state of mind that permeates the loneliness of the black woman. The short film reveres female power, rescues memories, discusses affection and thinks about paths to be followed.
In four acts, dancers combine steps of frevo, a traditional Carnival dance of Pernambuco State (Brazil), with others typical of contemporary rhythms like funk, swingueira, electro, and vogue.
In a prologue, two acts and a musical number.
A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?
Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan, Garoto follows a young couple who find themselves in an enchanted place where they experience an amorous and spiritual adventure.
The UN estimates street children worldwide at 150 million. In Latin America, they are 40 million. In Brazil, street boys and girls felt so enchanted by a camera that they took it as their own to express themselves and fight the silence.
It was 24 hours with him. I saw him shake his ass with a friend. Scrubbing tile corners. Have egg salad for lunch. Buy cleaning products. Rehearse in the studio. Playing with children on the grass. In a huge theatre, review texts about scenes of decolonization. Smoke one, or two. Problematizing on the bus. Undressing on the couch in my house. Sleeping without fitting into the bed because you are too tall. I saw the sun bursting on your skin in the morning and said goodbye. I thought a standard session wouldn't encompass the complexity of an intimate recording. So I was his voyeur for 24 hours. Uninterrupted.
At the same time that Elisa says goodbye to Heliomar, she meets young Michel.
Denise, Hannah and Leticia are three ordinary women with extraordinary stories to tell. As transgender people, they talk about the challenges of finding their true identities within an intolerant and prejudiced society.
This documentary follows charismatic Brazilian duo Anavitória from their modest hometown to the red carpet of the 2017 Latin Grammys in Las Vegas.
Seal performs at the Rock In Rio festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 20 September 2015.
Shortly after World War II, the city of Rio de Janeiro experiments a period of great cultural, political and economic effervescence, when all the dreams – or nearly all – seem possible. In this exciting scenery of transformation, Paulo discovers love, friendship and sex through his childhood and adolescence in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
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.
A German actor lands in Montevideo. Rude and speaking very little Spanish, he gets himself in trouble: only a few hours after his arrival, he gets lost and runs into a group of young men who try to rob him.
Art unmutes the silenced, questions, accepts, erases borders, brings people together and also, makes us humans.
A woman may be infected with a virus that causes terrible side effects.
A group of young people begin an investigative documentary about a series of disappearances in the Curitiba region. Reports point to the involvement of a supposed "slender man," and the mystery deepens when, upon leaving the city, they find themselves lost and isolated in a region called Serra Madrugada. Intrigue, accusations, and fights are just the first obstacles faced by the group on the most terrifying night of their lives. They are not alone.
Walking along Av. Oswaldo Aranha, a man decides to be the first to arrive and the last to leave the Lancheria do Parque. Based on this experience, this man observes the functioning and the patrons of one of the most classic establishments in Porto Alegre. A documentary journey through the daily lives of thousands of characters from Porto Alegre takes place.
A donkey, a dog, a chicken and a cat leave the farm lands in search of stardom. The official register of the 2010 theatrical tour of "Os Saltimbancos", produced by Cia de Teatro Corpo & Alma.
Macabre and mortal footage.
The film follows the birth of Jorge Mautner up to his 17 years. He was born in Brazil shortly after his parents fled the Holocaust. Raised by a nanny who introduced him to Candomblé, Mautner became a precursor of the Tropicália, contributing to the construction of the identity of Brazilian music.
During her vacation, top model Brenda feels compelled to visit her hometown after years away and enjoy Recife's hottest new spot with her friend Tanya: Aurora Beach.
Two years after her arrival in São Paulo, Alice continues her relationship with Nicholas and has begun to look for a place where they can live together. She has also launched a business that produces children's shows, and a stable life seems to be taking shape. But as she goes about the apartment search and shares in the loves and uncertainties of old and new friends, what she observes leaves her far less certain of her decisions and her future.
On her first birthday away from home, Antônia talks to her mother about the party she’s throwing with the money from her college aid allowance.
Two men experience a conflict over their life together, confronting each other with a secret that could change everything.
In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover around buildings and endless flatlands in search of the ever elusive love. Inspired by 19th century Russian short stories, the plots weave and unravel together in the improbable city of Brasilia – a distorted mirror-image of the Soviet utopia – located in the heart of the Brazilian desert.
A simple man goes beyond his limits to discover the truth.
When you're dead weight, embracing the literal sense may be the only way out.
Hélio Oiticica was one of the artists that most united reflection with artistic creation. His ideas and propositions, expressed not only in texts but also in statements and interviews, revolutionized art and culture, transforming him into one of the most important Brazilian artists of the 20th century. Foregoing voiceover narration and expert analyses, the film allows Oiticica himself to narrate his life and expound upon his art in his own words, and in extremely rare archival audio and visual material.
Two friends hit the road to Buenos Aires aboard an orange Opala 72, with a mission: be with as many women as possible. This is all a plan to wash the honor of "Caco", a man who found his girlfriend in bed with an Argentine.
Narrates in existential drama tones the story of a man searching for his lost time, traveling across the roads of Brazil’s countryside, making his way back to his homeland.
Two sisters get together after a time apart.