Sin, faith, redemption and paranoia in the filth of the mangroves.
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Sin, faith, redemption and paranoia in the filth of the mangroves.
Laura, a “young woman” of 126 years old, is the newly hired at Notary of Souls. In her new role, she records the motivations of those who renounced eternity. However, by contract, Laura herself cannot interrupt her tedious existence.
A woman flees to an isolated island, expecting peace and inspiration to write a novel. Her arrival, however, threats the stability of the islanders' lives as it stirs conflict between two men.
A woman, who believes she has a curse, sees an engineer die in an accident while building a bridge. Considering two men who were courting her responsible for the tragedy, she decides to take revenge on both. Brazilian version of Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
A geologist researches the rock formations of a beach in Búzios, where evidence of the formation of the Atlantic Ocean is found. In an overlapping time, a band resides in the same place, which bears the name of a slave trader. The natural and historical configurations of the spaces swirl in a spiral of sound, blood, words, and journeys through the coastal landscape.
In a magical realist world where you can have a conversation with your guardian angel, Duvo, a 25-year-old gangster, searches for peace and redemption from a life marked by crime in this beautifully lyrical look at life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
Pietro, a retired man, lives with his dog. When the dog dies, Pietro becomes unmotivated without the companion of the animal. One day he decides to go to a senior ball where he meets a lonely lady like him.
The city of Recife, work, childhood and youth.
Lampião's gang raids a farm just as the wedding of Antônio Saraiva and the Baroness's goddaughter is being prepared. In the shootout, Lampião's brother, Ezequiel, is killed, and in revenge, Lampião burns the Baroness alive and orders the bride to be beaten. Upon arriving at the farm, Antônio discovers everything and vows to follow the gang's footsteps to hell. The cangaceiros continue their atrocities, robbing, killing, and looting, until a priest places a curse on Lampião. The curse transforms into the avenging figure of Antônio, who acquires supernatural powers. He meets Lampião during Maria Bonita's birthday party, and a life-or-death duel ensues.
In a dystopian Midwestern future, five children embark on a journey to an abandoned school to find a long-lost treasure. In the present, the same children learn about environmental preservation and reflect on their own futures.
Based on intense research - and seen through different realities, that of those who study it, that of those who try to contain it and that of those who live in it -, the film opens a debate about the largest and most impacting scene of crack use in an open area of the world: Cracolândia, in São Paulo. The work analyzes the causes of this evil and its progressions, in addition to the combat tactics already carried out in São Paulo, opening a parallel with those applied in other countries.
Laura and Clarice live very different realities. While Laura tries to decide her life and take courage about her future, Clarice deals with her past tormented by an abusive relationship. Their lives intertwine as Laura's curiosity speaks louder, she takes her first dose of courage, and a passion arises with both facing their previous baggage and future plans along the way.
Three people get together to read the play that one of them wrote; a play that recounts the love that these three experienced in the past. But perhaps not everything is as it is written there, perhaps not everything - or almost nothing - was like that.
The Three Musketeers (Dede Santana, Mussum, Zachariah) work at home Sra. Ana Rocha (Rosita Tomáz) and has the difficult task of going in Foz do Iguaçu retrieve an emerald necklace, with which the plant is Mr. Louis at stake, and Chicken Joe (Renato Aragão) who lives in a poor chicken coop offers to help. Arriving in Foz do Iguaçu, find the bad guy, but he sells the paste to a villain in Manaus, in the Amazon already, Chicken Joe takes some stones, are the villain but he sold to another bandit in Rio de Janeiro, where they find the villain and finally retrieve the necklace, and the stones that Chicken Joe took were actually diamonds.
The Loneliness of Marcela, a 14-year-old girl who decides to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
The documentary is a dive into this universe that Ariano Suassuna built with his Art (work) and his Life. His novels and characters. Your utopias. Your Quaderna, as the driving force behind this mix. Theater performances. Poems. Show classes. Popular culture. The cordel. The rabeca. Brazil and its stones. The Armorial Movement. Their readings and representations. Based on unpublished interviews with artists and friends (family), as well as Ariano himself and a tour of his home, the documentary recreates his universe.
A reflection over marketing and communication through the life stories of real people on themes as music, technology, and relationships.
Meeting the girl from your school in a record store, going to her house and losing your virginity? Everyone went through something similar in adolescence... Didn't you? Would it be because you're not Jack White?
Documentary short film about the filmmaker, actress, writer, TV presenter "Liz Marins". Daughter of the master of national horror - the eternal Zé do Caixão, she tells how she created the character LIZ VAMP and VAMPIRE DAY.
Paulo - a frustraded and bitter man - orchestraded a assassination atempt at his wife's secret lover in a motel room. Julinho, Rosangela's lover - Paulo's wife - tries his best to change Paulo's mind. However, neither of them are expecting the presence of a third figure with it's own vengeful agenda.
While searching for their missing cat, Esmeralda and Eliene notice strange things happening to the street animals in the neighborhood.
Old and conservative industrialist goes to São Paulo to visit his children, who are locally in charge of his business. When he finds out they're having more fun than work, at first he is shocked, but gradually starts to join in.
In an event hall, Parvati rehearses a choreography for her 16th birthday. She does not agree with the party, but ends up giving in to pressure from her mother, who has always dreamed of this moment. Dândi works in this salon, doing general service jobs. The two meet by accident in the cellar, when Parvati is running away from all the futility of her party and Dândi is resting from kitchen work. They end up recognizing in each other the same contempt for all the artificiality that surrounds them, finding music as a way to escape that reality.
What's it like to shoot a series that takes place in Rio de Janeiro during the summer and São Paulo during the winter? What were some of the challenges related to producing a series during a pandemic? Author and screenwriter Luly Trigo takes us behind the scenes in this "live" special.
An enchanted kingdom where everything is made of food. Next to this magical place lives a Witch who doesn't like to eat. Disguised as a Web Influencer, she convinces the bees to stop pollinating and pursue professions such as YouTubers, eyebrow designers, yoga teachers and others.
During carnival Flaviana lives a pretty difficult dilemma; how to disguise from her last night lover who refuses to get out of her shower?
A psychiatric doctor driven to insanity by nightmare visions of Zé do Caixão trying to steal his wife is helped by colleagues who enlist creator José Mojica Marins to convince the patient that he does not exist.
A successful businessman is arrested on suspicion of committing financial crimes. In the sitting room of his house, four characters – the driver, the nanny, the lawyer and the wife – discuss how and why the businessman was arrested and, consequently, try to understand their own lives.
When he arrives, the whole house is impregnated with his perfume.
Live performance of the musical presented in 2014 at Teatro Lauro Gomes in São Bernardo do Campo. Karol, affectionately called Lolek by his closest relatives and friends, is a young Polish theater actor, passionate about art. After the death of his father during the Second World War, his life underwent a drastic change. When he receives a book from a simple tailor, he is awakened by the desire to become a priest in the midst of Nazism, in a country devastated by war. Between the clandestine seminary, the fun ladies who help him, his curious students and, later, the fight against communism, the world will get to know the man who became the most famous Pope of all time.
In a Rio Grande do Sul marked by challenges and prejudice, Maria, a transgender woman, finds herself on a difficult journey: motherhood. Alongside her husband, Dário, she takes on the responsibility of raising their son, Zezim. As she fights to build a dignified life and keep her family together, she faces the weight of racism and discrimination, confronting both social and personal barriers. Her story reveals the transformative power of love, courage, and the struggle for a place in the world.
In an attempt to represent reality, the boundary between life and art blurs between fragmentary images of someone and the praxis of an essay film.
An American aviator is crossing the Caatinga when her plane crashes due to a malfunction. She is rescued by a young countryman, and despite the differences between their worlds, an uncontrollable passion blossoms between them.
A mother struggles trying to avoid her son of becoming insane like his deceased father, but maybe it's already too late.
From Badr International comes the long-awaited series, Animated Stories of Islam, relating some of the great stories that took place before, during and after the Prophet Muhammad. Great Women of Islam, the second film in the 3-part series, chronicles the lives of some of the most prominent women in Islam that helped shape the religion to what it has become to. Includes famous stories of the Prophet's wife Khadija, Maryam (the mother of Jesus), Assiya (the wife of the evil Pharoah), and many more.
A doctor from Rio de Janeiro travels to spend his vacation in a small town in the South of Brazil, surrounded by legends about the disappearance of tourists. He stays in the house of a local family (father, son and grandmother), and, during lunch, the boy attempts to alert the doctor about a terrible secret.
Which song most represents this moment in your life? In six portraits, the protagonists meet a mirror camera, offering us a dance as intimate as the world around them.
In the 1970s, in the midst of a military dictatorship, composer Jards Macalé and filmmaker Luiz Carlos Lacerda (Bigode) shared a house in Rio de Janeiro - which became a center of convergence for musicians, filmmakers and writers, and where they performed classic films and songs of Brazilian culture.
Caio and Jane had a long relationship but like all good things one day it all comes to an end. With many unsolved issues and some love still there between, they engage in long conversations through the night remembering their past and imagining certain scenarios.
Young Júlia finds herself in a moment of emotional apathy after the end of a relationship. One night, after receiving unexpected news, she decides to cross the city in search of an old pinball table called “Andromeda”, to which she has many memories attached.
This short documentary captures the history and the current state of decay of the Cine Brasília: a movie theater founded in 1955 that became an important cultural fixture in the town of Carazinho, Brazil. In the 2010s, it turned into one of the last independent movie theaters in the brazilian south due to its steadfast owner, who refused to let his family business die out.
Bom Fim, in Porto Alegre, was a stronghold of the youth movement that took place between the 1970s and 1980s. The trajectory of the place is revisited through interviews with musicians and artists who lived those golden years.