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Isolation colonies kept thousands of leprosy patients inmates. In Brazil, hundreds of them still remain in these institutions where they were compulsorily taken from a policy based on secular prejudice and hygienist methods.

In the film, actor Leandro Hassum plays lawyer Michelle Barbieri, known as Mike. The company where he works is bought by an office that decides to keep only women in its positions. However, the character is not fired, since, due to her name, the HR department believes that she is a woman. The character then starts dressing in women's clothing to stay in his job.

Dreamlike sequence of individual photographs depicting urban scenes in a Rio de Janeiro street.

34-year-old Pamela is a small and shy woman. She works at the cash register of a supermarket. She attends a religious temple led by a Brazilian minister. She periodically visits her autistic mother. She is an anonymous character, leading a meaningless life. Suddenly, a miracle occurs. Messages of a marvelous destiny start to reach Pamela in unusual ways: a client, a gentle and charismatic transvestite, her own mother, dreams, bar codes, real and imaginary signals. The Savior of the Next Millennium is apparently on his way and everything indicates that she, being a virgin, is carrying him on her entrails. Impelled to face herself, Pamela undertakes an inner voyage. A paradoxical voyage: the more mystic she grows to be, the more human she becomes.

Moisés, a Brazilian from Minas Gerais, overcomes poverty, racism, and homophobia to become an internationally renowned pianist. Passionate about music since childhood, he teaches himself to play the piano, practicing on keys he draws on a wooden bench. Through perseverance and determination, he eventually reaches the University of Bremen in Germany, where he begins his career as a soloist. After years in Europe, he returns triumphantly to his hometown of Juiz de Fora, giving a recital where his parents see him perform for the first time.

Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde. Countries linked by the sea and the culture of nostalgia. The film travels across three continents and finds characters marked by absences produced by events that transform the history of these countries. Like fascism, colonization, slavery, dictatorships and leaving never to return. The culture of saudade is the thread that connects conversations by the sea.

Dirlinho and his cousin’s childhood is marked by deprivation and violence. They try to escape by working as jockeys. While the punters bet on them, they gamble with their lives for a better future by riding doped horses.

He is a sensitive boy who represses his true personality. After experiencing traumatic experiences, our protagonist begins to open to the world on a journey that made him the person who is. This is not the complete story, but shows a trajectory of overcoming and change.

An exhausting ping-pong match in the back of an old studio offers profound lessons.

Following her mother’s death, fifteen-year-old Agne moves in with her estranged father and older sister near a cemetery where he works. There, she uncovers a mysterious and deadly connection between her family and the “13 Souls” — victims of a tragic, unsolved fire decades earlier. As the past resurfaces and strange phenomena escalate, Agne finds herself entangled in a supernatural mystery tied to possession, reincarnation, and long-buried guilt.

To win a bet on which the future of their naturist club depends, a group of nudists agree to spend three months on a deserted island in Brazil, living under the same conditions as the Caiapó tribe. They build their huts, feed themselves with fruit and fish, and enjoy themselves playing outdoor sports.

During the World Cup in Brasilia, we follow Maninho (Willian Jesus Vieira), a former professional soccer player who started working as a street vendor, selling water and national team flags. On the way to his new job, memories awaken a recent memory that is at once playful and melancholic. After all, which soccer player in Brazil has never dreamed of playing in a World Cup?

It's 0am in Brasilia and you'll hear another "Mouth of the Night". The story barely told for the night asleep. Today's tale is about Bastar, a man with no luck in search of an ordinary life and tired of running away. Together with his brother André moved to Brasilia in 1981. They played their lives working as butchers. On a full moon night, the brothers' house was invaded by a strange fellow. For no reason, the guy ended Andre's life. Bastar tried to stop, but he saw only the killer's eyes that shone like the moon. From that day on, the fierce killer came back, always on full moon nights, to lead the life of Bastar as well. It's time to decide: be a hunter, or a hunter.

Anonymous family materials are collected in second-hand bookstores throughout the city of São Paulo: letters and Super 8 films question the viewer about the relationship between image, memory and truth.

Shy countryboy from Itu (a town in Brazil where everything is unusually big) is invited to work in the house of a rich woman, who ends up discovering the boy's hidden (and big) qualities...

Johann has a story to share with Matias. Matias has a lot to tell Johann. But between them, there's magic, noises, stars, and fridge magnets.

In a séance, Menezes' great-great-grandfather is brought back to life in present day (1936), over a century after his death at age 26. A free-spirited womanizer, he starts causing all sorts of trouble for the wealthy, respectable family of his descendants.

Lost in the middle of a living and murderous forest, a girl races against time to save her sister with the help of a mysterious stranger.

In the midst of arid and destroyed lands, Seu Zé walks carrying his bird Chico in a fragile cage. Shortly after settling on healthy land, the gunshots of the farmers force the wanderer to flee, without realizing that the bird has disappeared. Seu Zé, therefore, must continue his journey and find Chico, whom he misses so much.

Alberto Espinosa, his younger brother Antonio and their friends decide to terrorize an indigenous family that's settled in their old estate. This night will result in the appearance of a mysterious figure who'll relentlessly look for revenge.

Mariana, a young black woman is recovering from a heavy depression. she just wants to be happy, but hasn’t found her way yet.

An orphan, a blind virgin who seeks sexual pleasure, a young man who prostitutes himself as a transvestite and is sexually abused by his brother-in-law. What was God thinking of when he created each one of them?

The French girl Nanette Lubin came to Rio looking for her aunt and ended up finding the son of a baroness, Ricardo de Toneleiros. Not finding her aunt, Nanette became a manicurist for a baroness and later the lover of the lady's nephew. The film ends with the death of Nanette, who had been located by her aunt, but the aunt, upon learning how her niece was living, returned to the farm where she lived.

A docufiction film about the fall of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, widely known as Lampião – the mythical bandit leader from the Brazilian northeast who fought the local power and put his name in history.

During one night, a woman walks through Rio de Janeiro, and hears the music around: jazz, rock, eletronica...

The Brazilian Government leads Latin American countries in the fight against drug cartels. In response drug cartels start a series of attacks against Brazil's cities and natural resources. Their first target is the Amazon Forest.

Isidoro Colepicula is a humble truck driver hired to transport some furniture from São Paulo to Santos, in his worn out truck he calls "Anastácio". Hiding among the pieces travels a bride who's trying to escape her own marriage. With his dog Coroné, he gets himself into many amusing situations, especially when the packed vehicle is left without brakes on a steep road, and he has to chase after it.

Countryman Onofre is convinced by his cousin to live in Rio de Janeiro together with him so he can enjoy the delights of summer in Rio.

On Christmas Eve, Mauro, a reporter, has 24 hours to find a headline.

Gabriel is surprised by the arrival of Júlia, his ex-girlfriend, who goes to his house to pick up some belongings that were left there. For him it's a chance to try to talk to her, for her it's just a necessary evil. However, the conversation between the couple makes them both realize that many other immaterial things remain even after the end of a relationship. What to do with these things?

A young man walks the city streets, brooding over the end of a relationship. Memories and poems of his beloved accompany him on this journey.

RUMO recalls the trajectory of the São Paulo homonymous group that wrote a fascinating chapter of Brazilian musical history, especially in the 80's. Filled with humor, irreverence and language experiments - fundamental characteristics of the group - the film discusses musical creation and cultural production, as well as the effervescent cultural panorama of São Paulo city of the 1980s.

Leandro is a young man frustrated by his job. His master’s thesis is on the military dictatorship in Brazil. That takes him into a search for recently deceased artist Jairo Mendes’ controversial film The Beheading Game, which was censored by Brazilian censors in 1973.

As part of an independent film anthology project, So Help Me Lord is a personal and intimate story about the relationship between Caio and God, reflecting on himself and the world around him.

Leo celebrates his tenth birthday. From one grandmother, he receives socks, from the other, underwear. From his Grandfather, Leo gets an old Super-8 camera and with it he tells us of his attempts to change the gifts. While doing that, he finds out that Monica Lewinsky is Jewish, that Clinton is the president of America, that the numbers in his grandparents arms are responsible for him being chubby and that this old camera is worthless.

The film recounts personal memories of the Brazilian national team in recent World Cups and the dream of celebrating the long-awaited sixth title.

After the tragic death of her fiancée, Ismália, in a fatal accident at sea, Selene has to deal with the pain of the sudden loss of someone she loved so much. Driven by the memories and longings of a passionate relationship, Lagamar follows the first hours of Selene's new life journey - as she faces the memories of her dead fiancée.