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Based on the accounts and writings of prison guard and author Carol de Abreu, the documentary anthology web series "Panoptic Diary" brings her writings and experiences as a penitentiary agent to the screen. The series is a collection of short films, with each episode showcasing the vision of a director, each with their own visual style and narrative, featuring texts narrated by the author herself.
After years of absence, Ciro returns home to his mother's bedside. In the Colombian desert of Tatacoa, he meets those he fled and confronts the last guardians of a territory as fragile as it is enchanting.
The Urucuia River flows through the mighty waters of the Minas Gerais backlands. Full of stories, the film follows the riverside communities of the region, immersed in the narratives of the fishermen, the fish, and the river itself.
A short film by José Salles
The Museu da Pessoa challenged filmmakers to create films based on the many interviews that are part of the site's collection, and the result is an essay based on the interview with Francisco Edmisio da Silva, who migrated to São Paulo full of dreams and found a new reality.
The film gets into the underworld of crimes involving homophobia, soccer organized fans, and gangs in Sao Paulo city. It shows the team’s work routine of DECRADI, the only unit specialized in this field, as they search for people who have made hate speech into cruel murders.
The Other Side of the Atlantic is a documentary that builts a bridge in the ocean that separates Brazil and Africa. The film tackles the cultural exchanges, the imaginary created through the mirroring, the prejudice and dreams built in both sides of the atlantic through the life stories of the students of african countries in transit through Brazil.
An astronomer is forced to leave the city where he lives in order to save his relationship. He ends up returning to the place he never intended to come back: The small town where he was born, stage of a great childhood trauma. Once there, he will discover the truth that will change his life forever.
A family moving into a new house releases a zombie trapped by satanic rituals in the basement. After he's free, the zombie dominates the sofa and the remote control, watching TV all day and slowly influencing the family father's mind.
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.
Before going to bed, it's best to make sure your feet are covered. It is through them that evil entities manage to get under the blanket and attack their victims. All evil wants is to pull its victims' feet and then pull the blanket off them, making them vulnerable.
Letícia is a woman who, during the pandemic, had to start working as a CamGirl, in pursuit of her dream of becoming an actress. For one of the clients, a surprise: his old love, Fernando.
Northern Paraná, Brasil, 1977. Ângelo Gambellini, a journalist and owner of the controversial sensationalist newspaper "O Tibagi," built his reputation using unconventional methods of police investigation. The theft of a tractor from Tadao Yamamoto's farm sparks a rivalry between Gambellini and Detective Polaco, both determined to solve the mystery according to their own interests.
In 1959, disgraced intergalactic agent WA4 receives a mission: to come to the Earth and kill the president Juscelino Kubitschek on the day of Brasília's inauguration. But his ship is lost in time and lands in 2016 in Ceilândia — a Black suburb of Brasilia — on the verge of Dilma Rousseff's impeachment.
He observes his reality with astonishment. She multiplies herself in images. An admirable event happens.
When Gabriel inherits an old house, he discovers a mysterious portrait of a man identical to himself. As strange noises and visions torment him, the line between reality and madness begins to blur.
Bacamarte, a Brazil-born Portuguese (when Brazil was a colony), is a prominent physician whose sincere obsession for discovering a universal method to cure pathological disorders drives inhabitants of the small Brazilian town of Itaguaí to fear, conspiracy, and revolutionary attempts.
Seven adolescents take on the mission of filming, for one week, their family's housemaids and hand over the footage to the director to make a film. The images that confront us uncover the complex relationship that exists between housemaids and their employers, a relationship that confuses intimacy and power in the workplace and provides us with an insight into the echoes of a colonial past that linger in contemporary Brazil.
Couple of lovers want to steal the income of a popular soccer game, at Maracanã Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro.
A girl accesses her subconscious while venting about life's challenges.
Singer, poet and composer of iconic songs such as "Kátia Flávia" and "Rio 40 Graus", Fausto Fawcett is also the author of five novels and several performances that reveal a vast and unique universe. Starting from real and everyday signs with roots in Copacabana, his work crosses narrative, philosophical and temporal boundaries to establish futuristic visions and sensory experiences that shake up human adventure.
Young Deisy (Ana Letícia) dreams of moving to bustling Belém, but instead she lives on Combu Island, across the river, cut off from the city she often admires from afar. Her mother (Dira Paes), aware of her daughter’s longing, wants to help her achieve it — though her husband (Adriano Barroso) is firmly against the idea. Together, mother and daughter hatch a plan to make the dream a reality.
Nando, a 12 year old boy, narrates the adventures of his father Antonio, during the 60s in Brazil, who leaves the inland of the state of Minas to go to Brasília, a recently inaugurated city, but still with construction works in progress.
Three children, Cosmic, Luna and Maninho, live in a futuristic world, where lives are totally programmed. One night, while trying to get points to earn a bonus at school, they get lost in space and discover an infinite universe.
As Carmen prepares to marry for the fourth time, her three sisters find themselves juggling romantic predicaments of their own in this offbeat comedy from Brazil.
Rufus, the priest, can't forget the first time he heard rap music.
In the 17th century, to guarantee the possession of the region, disputed with Spanish and Dutch pirates, the Portuguese built a fort at the point where the dark waters of the Rio Negro meet the clear waters of the Rio Solimões, forming the Amazon River. Around the fort, the city of Manaus was born. Alli lived the Manaús Indians, warriors who worshiped Manari, the Good, and from him they received the order to fight all the invaders of the forest.
A couple interrupts an intimate moment to discuss their relationship.
"who were you in new york" proposes a dive into memories and wishful thinking through Sofia's journey in a trip that allows her to imagine who her mother was when in New York.
In 16th century Brazil, portuguese colonizer Marfim falls in love with indigenous woman Iracema.
In Bocaina, Minas Gerais, two sisters live peacefully and in isolation until the arrival of an outsider to the region. The plot follows in the footsteps of Zulma (Malu Gali), Musk (Ana Flavia) and Josevelt (Alejandro Claveaux). Josevelt is the mysterious fellow who, along with these two conflict-filled women, helps them free themselves from their restraints. Under the context of a pandemic, the narrative addresses the feeling of suspension and uncertainty, so present today.
Ney and Marcos share an apartment, the passion for music and for the same girl until time tears them apart. A few years later they meet again reviewing their attitudes, emotions and memories.
A couple of tough girls from the Brazilian countryside race their pickup truck to win a bet and prove that they're better than the boys.
Set against the backdrop of mysterious abductions across Brazil, mother and son, Marta and Levi, struggle with affection and grief when one of their loved ones, Diná, a young trans woman, becomes one of the victims.
Dois anos com música de um mesmo álbum entre as mais pedidas no Brasil. Indicação ao Grammy Latino 2010 aos 21 anos. Casa de show lotada, com todos os ingressos vendidos antecipadamente. Estes são alguns dos aspectos que cercaram a gravação do primeiro DVD de Bruna Karla, Advogado Fiel Ao Vivo, que chega às lojas também em CD pela MK Music. Porém, muito além de dados informativos, o sentimento de conquista que envolve o projeto é mais significativo. Quem acompanha a história de Bruna Karla é testemunha de um caminho de fé, superação e milagre.
Mercedes Sosa making of her last album depicts encounters with other characters, creative moments, testimonies of the artists who participated and reflections of Mercedes Sosa about her life and the recording of "Cantora".
Alexandre, 30, virtual sex professional, father of Ana Laura 7 years old, has to cope with the moral conflict between the oldest profession in the world and paternity.
It's a film about the world today, about the need for a revolution, an uprising of the masses against the exploiters, so that the financial system can be completely rethought. It's an anarchist vision of the chaos we need for this change to occur (because anarchism is not mess, it's mutual support and solidarity). Of course, in 4 minutes there's no way to theorize about something so complex, but given the inequalities of today we have to do something, even if it's a short 4-minute short that, perhaps, awakens the inner revolutionary of those who watch (or not ).
A real state agency wants to buy and demolish the traditional school Matheus Rose, to use the lot to build a hotel. The proposition unleashes a feel of distrust among the school students and staff, especially with the arrival of new, mysterious students.
The film tells the story of Arnaldo, that to get rid of his miserable life, seeks of a clinic that promises to copy people. With a copy occupying his place, he would take a new life. But, when having his request denied, Arnaldo has no choice but to try and change the course of his history. When he falls in love with Josie, the clerk of a pet cemetery, Arnaldo believes that he found a chance to finally be happy. But maybe he's wrong. A Lone Man is an urban fable that addresses the complexity of relationships, with a good dose of irony, and humor.
Cintia is modern princess, she's connected, decided and loves music. This "pop" princess used to live with their parents in a huge castle with a nice view to the city. Every night she looked through the window and watch the view dreaming with a prince she didn't met yet. But one day her castle crumbles with everything around her, after her parents divorce she went to live with her aunt and stops believing in love. What she didn't knew was that there was a charming prince in her history, that wanted to break the ice around our modern day cinderella.