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In order to earn a warrior name, the son of Araguaia chief wanders the forest, falls in love with a girl from the Tocantins tribe, and defeats their bravest warrior. When his true identity is discovered, he makes a deal: promises to fight the Tapuias, another tribe which threatens the Tocantins, marries the Indian girl, and establishes the Ubirajara nation.

The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable and allegory, reality turns stronger and stronger, and more absurd.

Two young men in search of adventure meet Iracema, a bride who's been left waiting at the church. They give her a ride on their jeep, until they find the most strange family: a couple with seven girls and a son. According to popular tradition, a man born after seven girls is bound to become a werewolf.

Between 1974 and 1976, while researching for his filme "S. Bernardo", Leon Hirszman shot three documentary shorts produced by the Brazilian Ministry of Education on the chores of the men who worked in the sugar cane fields in the town of Feira de Santana, in the cocoa fields of Itabuna, and in the efforts of building households in Chã Preta.

Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn't an easy task.

Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets.

Gal Costa in her privacy. Unkempt hair, colorful clothes, many necklaces and rings, she and the streets of downtown Rio. She laughs a lot, gestures and sings. Rio's landscapes such as Lage Park, a quiet place in the neighborhood of Gávea, an active factory.

Having come out recently from jail, a tramp, willing to make quick money, decides to organize a pool match between two famous retired players.

Part of a series of short documentaries about black musicians and singers made in the 1970s, it portrays Luiz Melodia in the intimacy of his life and the close relationship with his family and friends in the favela of Estácio, as well as stories about his career.

Simeão is a good and simple man but a little too lively for a small city in the middle of Brazil. The most respectable citizens of this town start to think about how they are going to kick him out.

A young woman, victim of violence, takes refuge with an old sailor.

Experimental film, guided by the feeling of oppressive, paranoid, obsessive life of its characters. An essay on the oppression and dehumanization of the Brazilian people.

Erotic comedy in 3 segments: "A B. de Ouro" (The Golden A..), "O Homem dos Quatro Chifres" (The Man with Four Horns) e "O Homem, a Mulher e o Etc. Numa Noite de Loucuras" (Man, Woman and Etc in a Crazy Night). All three stories are about single, married and divorced men, and their sexual adventures with women.

Young woman needs money to pay her mother's medical treatment. She gets a work in a bar that is, in fact, a cover for a prostitution net. She is drugged and raped while some photographs are taken, to be presently used as blackmail, to force her to work as a hooker. She accepts her fate but starts a serious relationship with a reporter, to whom she doesn't dare tell the truth. She wants to leave that life behind and get married, but the gangsters won't allow it. Until one of the girls decides to tell the reporter about the underground activities going on, and he calls the police.

Hasting, the right hand of Simon, the president of the Organization, has run for the elections, feeling the regime won't survive much longer. With no popular support, Simon gets elected by fraud. Hasting, now persecuted, is forced into exile. From his exile, through multiple armed attempts, he tries to reclaim his rightful position.

In a financially troubled farm in the 1930's, its depraved owners become attracted to their new handsome and young handyman.

Ali Baba falls for a former trapeze artist who was paralyzed in an accident and wants to get money to make the girl recover their health. Ali Baba discovers a hidden deposit of 40 thieves, and finds many bars and diamonds too fake money.

Letícia Parente was a pioneer of video in Brazil, and In is one of her earliest video works. It depicts the artist entering a closet, suspending herself from a hanger, and closing the door. Parente used video as a political tool to protest the military dictatorship in Brazil, and to comment on the mass torture committed by the government. Much of her work concerned domestic space and its association with conventional roles to which women were expected to conform. Several videos by Parente transform daily household tasks into forms of resistance.

A mutant prank improvised by Arnaldo Baptista, Sérgio Dias, and Rita Lee. Os Mutantes on a unique day in the streets of São Paulo.

Inspired by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver’s book Soul on Ice and dedicated to John Coltrane, Soul in the Eye marks the beginning of Black Brazilian films. The film is a metaphor for the legacy of culture and survival bestowed by enslaved Africans brought to the American continent and the search for freedom through inner transformation, in a game inspired by concretism.

A young woman living in São Paulo goes to Gramado to visit a friend of hers. Together, they meet an odd woman who engages in strange experiences through parapsychology. From then on, bizarre events are bound to happen.

Documentary-manifest in defense of the inclusion of the Brazilian short film in the national cinema circuit, accompanying each foreign feature film as a market reserve

Ox carts are still part of the landscapes of the Brazilian badlands, in a mixture of usefulness and poetry. Filmed in Volta Grande, in the Zona da Mata mesoregion of Minas Gerais, it was Mauro's only film in color and also his last.

In the words of the director, a movie about 'the colonizers in the view of the colonized', the movie presents a series of disconnected happenings throughout Europe and Brazil emphasizing the perception of human life as trance-like experiences and thus offering a view of the human history as a connection of symbolic behavior.

Short documentary about the ideology of publicity and mass medias.

A mockumentary (or is it a fake fiction?) about journalism.

Powerful land-owner Chico Ribeiro wants the lands of his neighbor Miguel, leading to a confrontation at the cattle auction.

Director João Batista de Andrade was filming a documentary about migrants coming from Northeast Brazil to São Paulo in search of a better living. His intention was to give voice to these underprivileged and homeless people. While preparing to interview a man who lived under a bridge, a passer-by interfered, starting an argument about the role of people from other states in the development of São Paulo and the rural problem in the Northeast.

Jordão Magalhães, a young plastic artist from a small inland city, is hired to sculpt the statue of the local virgin patron. The model that inspires her is Verinha, with whom she maintains a loving relationship.