Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.
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Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.
Between repetitive actions such as stocking shelves and scanning groceries, anonymous Brazilian supermarket employees reflect frankly on their lives, society, and the role they dream of playing in it.
Years after a rough separation, a couple meets again and travel to a wild region of Brazil that was once the scenery of their passion. Slowly they find out both have changed and must ask themselves if love has resisted the passage of time.
Amani is a little Pakistani girl who lives in Brazil. When moving house, the Muslim girl receives an unexpected gift from her new Brazilian friend: a bikini.
A man's farm is attacked and his mother gets killed. Looking for revenge, he goes about chasing the men who killed her.
A drama about double personality
One day, Eduardo arrives at his house and discovers that Julia, his wife, tried to commit suicide. She left her husband and two children without saying goodbye. After some time, she comes back home. He tries everything to set her straight, but the impossibility of knowing her fully grieves him. The shadow of the suicide and the inevitable ghost of a new chance hover over their heads. Eduardo insists on understanding his wife, but an increasing jealousy and an unexpected discovery of her past torture him. He does not realize that, most of the time, the search for control easily becomes an obsession.
Mauro Mateus dos Santos was known by another name: Sabotage. Growing up amidst poverty in São Paulo, the musician, who became a legend after his death, is one of the most important names in national rap.
A parody of the story The Three Musketeers.
A father receives a devastating call: his son was found dead. This tragic news makes him travel in order to identify and release his son’s body for burial, a journey that will force him to recognize his absence as father and find a way to reconnect with the memories of his own child.
In a period of isolation, far away from each other, 2 friends reconnect through video-letters, inspired by the poetic gaze of women experimental filmmakers: Marie Menken, Joyce Wieland, Gunvor Nelson, Yvonne Rainer. Fernanda is a Brazilian living in São Paulo, Adriana is a Mexican-Brazilian living in Los Angeles. They both share their inspiration while capturing the reality of these times.
There are limits to jokes? What is the politically incorrect humor? A joke has the power to offend? It is these issues that 'Laughter of Others' discusses interviewing personalities such as comedians Danilo Gentili and Rafinha Bastos, cartoonist Laerte and Congressman Jean Wyllys, among others. The documentary delves into the world of Stand Up Comedy to discuss the fine line between comedy and offense, between legal and what creates endless lawsuits.
Following a mysterious disappearance, actress Tônya Frank reemerges in the public eye transformed: new look, new persona, and starring in the latest film by the unknown underground director Victor. On the Jorge Borges Show, she unleashes biting commentary on Brazilian cinema as she recounts the journey behind her metamorphosis.
Reimagining scenes from the iconic Man with a Movie Camera (1929, Dir. Dziga Vertov/USSR), Man with a Cellphone Camera delves into the creative potential and image manipulation in the era of social media.
In New York City, an illegal immigrant gets into trouble because of his relationship with a self-destructive prostitute.
An anguished university student in his early 30's ponders the state of his life in light of his relationships with a politicized classmate, a TV actress selling the image of a femme fatale and his bourgeois sister.
Gustave is a photographer who makes pictures of nude male bodies in public spaces in São Paulo. One night, Pedro goes with him, without yet knowing whether he will be part of the project. This vast city will be witness.
Lust follows desire as sure as night follows day, but in these five stories from France, Switzerland, Brazil and Romania, reality takes an unexpected detour, and things turn out a little differently when sunrise comes.
Where's the girl? Can you hold her for me? I need her now.
After being evicted from her house, Andréia returns years later to the Getúlio Vargas community with her children Augusto, Gustavo and Bruno. With their help, she starts building her own house.
Helen lives in a cortiço with her grandmother, Mrs. Graça, who supports the family with informal jobs, such as selling skewers. Still very naive, her biggest concern is buying her grandmother a birthday present: a makeup kit. The girl is going to bend over backwards to get the money and her search will reveal the daily life of those living in tenements, outlining a collective story from the network of relations that the girl establishes.
This acoustic album features the band's main successes, played in the MTV Acústico house-style.
.abyssal cave
A sinister stain appears on the wall and scares the lonely resident of that house. To her dismay, the stain has a human silhouette and, during the night, seems to leave the wall and walk through the house.
In this romcom stained with Brazilian queerness, João used to think the butterflies in his stomach were dead. When he falls in love with Lucas, his best friend, something weird starts happening in his belly. Maybe he has zombie butterflies.
The attention was not focused on the tourist attractions, but rather on the graffiti.
During the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Brazil’s independence, a Brazilian diplomat and a Portuguese historian escort the heart of Emperor Dom Pedro I, confronting colonial traumas, identity crises, and the delirium of a country in turmoil.
Duda is a young girl of 13 years intrigued by her mother's work. Beside a new friend, she starts walking at night, and crosses a border with no return.
Presented and conducted by the actor Caio Blat, the documentary tells the story of the murder of the newsman Jonas Eduardo Santos de Souza, executed when he was improperly barred at the door of the Itau bank.
The arrival of a strange package reunites two friends who have taken different paths in life, putting their friendship at stake over something that may be more than just a prank.
This story revolves around the use of narcotic drugs and their harmful effects. Extraordinary luxury, artistic nudes and lascivious dances (Cinemateca Brasileira)
Film in three segments. In the first, engaged girl falls in love with an acrobat. In the second, married woman is loved by two men. In the last, the daughter of a traditional family is rejected on her wedding night.
Juca, a black kid, sees his friends and his mother being hit by his stepfather, without being able to do anything against it, but when he knows that he is the great-grandson of João Cândido, the leader of the sailors rebellion against the chibata hits adopted by Brazilian Navy till 1910, he takes an extreme attitude towards changing the course of his life.
Over nearly 20 years, filmmaker Carlos Nader lived with the Paraná truck Nilson de Paula and his family. From the beginning, the project was to conduct a documentary whose intentions become viscerally, a process also captured by the camera. During this period, becomes the lives of Nilson, who gets sick, his wife, Jane, and his only daughter, Liciane, as well as the director, who happens to be part of this circle also affectively. Major issues such as the meaning of life, are incorporated into the very fabric of the film, which oppose excerpts from the classic "The Word" (Ordet), Carl Dreyer, highlighting aesthetic and existential connections.