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Mauro is the proud owner of a "Video 80", a video rental shop that used to be a big hit in the 80's, now empty and forgotten. On what would be the store's last day, someone finally appears - but it is not exactly what Mauro expected.
An artist penetrates him/herself with a cob of transgenic corn in the middle of a field, unawares that death is near. His/her sister Ana, who has been following him/her with his/her ashes, embarks on a journey into the Amazon forest that will become a quest as spiritual as it is erotic.
Iolanda, a widow who is the matriarch of a large and complicated family, is the hostess of a large party in a mansion that brings back many memories. The celebration is marked by a barbecue with lots of gossip and fun among old friends.
After some time distant, Marcela goes to her parents’ house to tell them she’s gonna marry her girlfriend, Bianca.
João and his family set out on a day trip to Niterói, looking for a moment of peace. However, as the car moves along the road, a suffocating atmosphere begins to take hold. Through João’s eyes, the everyday encounters and microaggressions of racism start to manifest as supernatural haunts. In this chilling tale of childhood horror, the young boy's journey is shaped by invisible scars and a reality that bends under the weight of systemic violence. Where the road ends, the nightmare begins.
A documentary that chronicles the story of Blitz, one of the most famous Brazilian 80s rock bands known for their humorous, irreverent lyrics and free spirited attitude.
After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.
A small town is taken upside down when an inventor finds a way to turn bones into gold.
A desanimation from Coffin Souza
Two people fight for survival in a captivity in which the only contact with the outside world is a small gap in the room where they are locked. A short film made for the "Noite de Kino 2023" project of the São Paulo International Short Film Festival - Curta Kinoforum.
She menage to save from a fire a bunch of pictures and a diary written by hand. Those words and faces becomes the last traces left from the man she one day knew and loved. Crossing mountains and roads, she tries to remake his steps. The places she vists bring people, gestures, memories and histories that slowly become part of her life.
On the last day of the year, strangers cross each others lives at moments of doubt and anxiety.
To satisfy her costumers, an owner of a luxurious bordello does whatever it takes. but the place’s efficiency is threatened when the most desirable of its ladies decides to quit. The owner set a diabolical plot to keep the girl working.
Documentary wich tries to capture the iconoclastic spirit of the 1922 Week of Modern Art, to tell about the beginning of cinema made in the city of São Paulo.
The fairy tale story of Maria da Graça, a small town girl with big time dreams of becoming a singer, who moves to Rio de Janeiro to pursue her ambitions.
Devising a fantastic universe, in which ancient make-up and costumes share the screen with contemporary elements such as limousines, helicopters and mobile phones, 'Philosophy in the Boudoir' intends to blur the borders of realism and make the spectator get closer to timeless issues. The boudoir inside an industrial plant brings an aggressive aesthetics to the teachings and orgies. The takes are developed in different ways. The franzy of orgies has a fast editing, whilst philosophical moments are long sequence shots. By bringing to the contemporary world a 200-year-old romance, we intend to trigger questions about the real moral changes in Western society. It is also interesting to highlight Sade's feminism. His female heroes are independent women, masters of their own sexual drive. At last, due to the solid theatrical background of the artists, the film was inevitably contaminated by unusual procedures, contributing to new possibilities of exchange between arts.
Marta, a young mother, hardly believes when she hears her young baby speak. She tries to convince the other people in the family of the fact, but soon discovers the baby only speaks with her, even in English.
Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.
The little boy with the big secret — After two decades living abroad, a filmmaker returns to his hometown in Brazil to confront the bullying he endured as an effeminate gay kid in a conservative, virile environment. Amidst the town's ugliness and hostility, he uncovers clues that lead him to unravel the roots of his own internalized homophobia.
About English photographer Chick Fowle. Statements by Anselmo Duarte, Leonardo Vilar, Marlene França, Vanja Orico. A film about directors, actors and teams that Chick Fowle worked and works with, also showing the possibility of renewal that Brazilian cinema can and must have.
After thirteen years in Guantanamo, Muhammad is set free and taken to Uruguay. He has a second chance in an unknown place where he shall start to live a new life in freedom.
Fragments of the daily life of Álvaro, who left Pinochet’s Chile in the 1980s to invent a new life for himself in Brazil.
Arrigo Barnabé, a prominent figure of the Vanguarda Paulistana movement, takes center stage in this experimental film, which delves into his formative years in Londrina before he established himself in São Paulo. Through a blend of auditory and visual disruptions, director Rodrigo Grota presents glimpses of the aesthetic subconscious that permeates the artistic and musical endeavors of the mastermind behind "Clara Crocodilo".
A man breaks into people's houses at night and observes them, without stealing or violating anything. He simply looks, putting himself in their positions and searching for something he has lost within him, but not thinking that he could be being watched too.
Judge Eduardo Cruz enjoys the company of some friends and tells an ancient story of Damasceno's passion for Lucinda. The two were in a restaurant when Lucinda's husband, upon returning to the table, caught Damasceno touching his wife's hand. Lucinda was not seen in town after that day.
Madonna celebrates her four-decade career in a special concert for over 1.6 million people at the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.
Ariel is a painter who finds herself stuck in a creative slump that threatens her sanity. Meanwhile, her ego takes the shape of an Astronaut, looking for something that might awaken her from this creative and psychological state
Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.
Documentary about Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro. The first South American and the first Latin American actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Every year 288 thousand people attempt suicide in Brazil. The film documents the creative process of actors preparing a play about the re-encounter of a girl who has attempted suicide with her friends from a theatre group. The idea is to give a voice to the young people, those who have attempted, the friends and relatives of those who survive and those who die. The documentary proposes a recovery of self-esteem and hope for those who consider suicide, encouraging all to give a new meaning to their existence, indicating the possibility of new choices and pathways.
A group of bored well-off young adults come up with anarchic concept of Conceptionism, that promotes absolute looseness when it comes to sex and drugs, but total rejection of money and ego. However, their movement won't last long.
The documentary narrates the trajectory of Waldick Soriano, from the time he was a gold miner to his consecration as one of the icons of Brazilian music.
One summer morning, Mr Baiestorf forgets how to put on flip-flops, takes a deep breath, opens a beer and goes to the beach to spend a day full of love and great emotions.
A docufiction that reveals the obstacles faced by AIDS victims during its worst period when it was a new and deadly disease. Interviews with famous Brazilian personalities and anonymous people about the disease’s pandemic all over the world, their opinions, and hopes for a future cure.
Pablo wants to go to Brazil to see his father. His mother repeatedly promises that they will go soon, but she never keeps her promise. Pablo, tired of so many lies, sneaks into the car of Ringo, a new storytelling friend, and they go on a trip.
After 23 years living with his mother, Francisco is moving. The last week of coexistence between him and Ana is marked by intimate conversations, small arguments, advice and everyday life.
Two perverted homosexuals stop being gay and become necrophilic and coprophagic killers after one of them cuts his penis off.
"Negro em Mim" is an investigative documentary with black artists and thinkers in Brazil today. A portrait of a plural Brazil from the racial discussion promoted by a trip to 6 Brazilian cities. What do the Arts have to say about Black Brazil?
"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." Rainer Maria Rilke.
A teenager finds out his mother is having an affair, but doesn't tell anyone. His mind wanders, but his feet are chained to the soil.
Boi Aruá is a feature film of Brazilian animation, directed by Chico Liberato. The film is based on the book "O Boi Aruá" by Luís Jardim.
An eclectic group of strangers seek shelter on a dark and stormy night, soon finding an isolated guest house owned by a mysterious proprietor.
