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Directly impacted by the 2017 UERJ strike, Rita, a Visual Arts student from Pernambuco, is torn between farewells from the ties she created in Rio and the fixation of rescuing her last academic-artistic work that is locked in a university room.
André is the powerful owner of an illegal casino and popular gambling ("Jogo de Bicho") on the streets. His gang is in war against the gang of Fiore that is trying to steal the gambling establishments of André. When the prostitute Margot sees her old friend and ex-con Sarja working as a waiter in the casino where she tricks clients, she invites him to stay with her in her apartment. When André, who is gay, sees the handsome Sarja, he falls in love with his employee that becomes his protégée. Meanwhile, Sarja and Margot plot to steal the high stakes on St George's Day and they invite André's henchman Lobão and two gangsters to participate in the heist. Meanwhile Fiore also plots to steal André's money with his gang.
The world around Hermes seems to shrink down to his headphones and notebook, even while the other characters are going through intense emotional turmoil.
Since the 1970s, Roberto Pires has militated against the use of nuclear energy. For that, he went looking for the biggest Brazilian name in this subject, César Lattes, professor of Nuclear Physics at UNICAMP. Believing that nuclear energy could, in the long run, extinguish human life. With the collaboration of Orlando Senna, he writes the screenplay for the film “Abrigo Nuclear”, an ambitious production, science fiction film entirely produced and shot in Bahia. With little money, armed with his creative ability, Roberto builds a 'spaceship' and a studio in the backyard of his house. He calls children, relatives and friends and begins production on “Nuclear Shelter”, which is released in 1981. With statements by Orlando Senna, Laura Pires, Nonato Freire, among others, the documentary "Bahia SCI-FI" intends to explore the universe that surrounded Roberto Pires, Bahia and the possible nuclear war of the late 1970s and early 1970s. 1980.
At 3 AM, a girl tries to cook instant ramen noodles with instructions from ChatGPT
As head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Brazilian diplomat José Bustani became an obstacle in America’s march to war with Iraq. Ousted from his position, he now revisits the chilling events that marked a turning point in global power structures.
Lola is an 8 year old girl who, after her best friend moves away, faces emotional challenges dealing with frustrations, loneliness and a mischievous little monster called Tufo, who loves to steal her socks.
A montage of 48 Brazilian films made between 1898 and 2022. The moments, the frames, where we feel a glimmer, an innovation, some experimentation and emotion coming to us at different times. A fine thread that runs through cinema since its birth, and even before.
In a messy room, a slap knocks a woman to the floor. The attacker appears deranged, bathed in anger and tears. The reason that leads the two, apparently old acquaintances, to this state is not immediately revealed. We are quickly transported to another time, the 70s: violence, repression, dictatorship, the hippie generation, the counterculture. We met these two women, now friends, in a movie theater. Here begins a puzzle to be put together, where present, past and illusion mix and become confused.
1970. Beatriz is an 18-year-old student. She is detained by the military dictatorship in Curitiba, Brazil, and tortured for ten days accused of belonging to the subversive student movement and an armed guerrilla that fights against the regime, VAR-Palmares.
Casablanca emerged from a sensitive look (and listening) from a characteristic place on 3rd street in the center of Goiânia. With a territorial approach through a biographical perspective, the documentary tells the storys of the lives of Zardos and Iara that today allow places like Casablanca to continue to exist in a big city. On Thursdays, at 8 pm, what during the week was just a pizzeria, becomes an environment where bolero goes beyond the corners.
Marquinhos (Lúcio Andrey) lives in the Rocinha favela, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved with Débora (Priscila Assum), a young woman from the upper middle class with whom she starts to face adult life and several difficulties that try to separate them.
Ever since the loss of her mother, Talita is always distracted. Her friend Valéria is in charge of household chores. Their daily routine is a mix of sweetness and sadness, as they have a secret that will determine their fate.
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.
Set in colonial Brazil, the love story between a Brazilian man and a Portuguese-born dame sets fire to a political movement which brought freedom and democracy in Brazil for the very first time.
Limeville, the city of lime, fears it's legacy might be destroyed when the heirs of the land show up to claim the town and replace the lime with oranges. But there's only place for one fruit in this town...
Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.
Two rapists rape and kill two sisters, but are covered up by the city police, who sell themselves to the father of one of them. Despite being arrested and tortured by the bandits, the husband of one of the victims does not give up doing justice and plans revenge.
Ceci is a talented girl who has a very special musical gift. After discovering that she is adopted, she allows herself to be guided by her intuition and an incessant melody that accompanies her everywhere, and decides to leave alongside Bia and Beto, her best friends, towards an adventure in search of the truth about her origins. Beto, who has just gotten his driver's license, secretly takes his parents' car and, thus, the three friends begin a journey that will forever transform not only their lives, but also that of everyone who crosses their paths during this journey.
Filmmaker Hare Brasil follows painter, public speaker and street artist Eduardo Marinho as they hit the road aboard Celestina, a worn-down and faulty Volkswagen van, for a trip across Brazil and Uruguay, where Marinho is set to give a lecture at a local University. They cross over 5000 kilometers and stop by numerous cities following an everything goes approach, with Marinho selling his work, talking to people and sharing his thoughts on life, society and everything else.
Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town. She tries to find peace in solitude, immersed in the house routine, while coexisting with a past of lovers and Molotov cocktails. Her body suffers the metamorphosis of aging, and she must undergo cataract surgery.
A lawyer and an elderly professor (who has been engaged to his cousin for so long), make a plan to freely enjoy the delights of a wild party, far from those who know them. (Cinemateca Brasileira)
The documentary follows the journey of workers in the city of São Paulo whose crafts have been passed down from generation to generation. Amid the voracious growth of a city that increasingly leaves them aside, the workers resist through acts of reparation, always remembering their past and never letting hope fade away.
Joana, a 30-year-old woman, returns to the rural settlement in Paraná where she spent her childhood to work as a teacher. Her homecoming compels her to confront long-buried memories, including the murder of her father by landowners amid the region’s conflict over land rights. Dance of the Fireflies is a poetic reflection on emotional landscapes, flickers of history, fragments of collective memory, and the social struggle in the countryside.
A woman with mental problems gets lost in her own thoughts and doesn't know what is real and what is imagination.
It's a day of waiting for the young boy Chico and his grandmother Rosa, both for better news from the hospital and for the lunar eclipse.
It is a hot night in Cuba. Elizabeth de Victória, aged 22, is about to make her long-awaited debut on the stage of the biggest drag show in the entire province of Artemisa. But before she gives a live performance, she must confront all the difficulties preceding the show. A ruthless clock counts the minutes to the start of the show and the preparations of other drag queens reveal all the shortcomings of the debutant. Comments about the unknown girl can be heard whispered around the dressing room. The atmosphere is becoming denser as the successive drag queens finish their performances and everyone is awaiting the visiting debutant.
A vertical film about self-love in the times of liquid love. A film based on a poem by Isadora Tricerri about freedom and the difficulties of being in love.
The story of Gritando HC, a Brazilian hardcore band from its beginnings in 1994, the death of its founder, Donald, and how they remained active and relevant in the scene to this day.
Strike on the red carpet.
After the death of his foster parents, a young businessman goes into a journey in search of his biological mother. During the search he faces the social and religious prejudice that surrounds the LGBTTQ Brazilian community.
When the father sacrifices the sick dog of the family, the relationship with the eldest daughter becomes unsustainable. Fearing that he may do the same with the youngest daughter, who is also sick, the sisters come together to try to escape the threat of their father.
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.
"Café Quente" is a heartwarming documentary guided by Dona Ângela, a 69-year-old woman who, in addition to sharing life experiences, reflects on the arrival of old age.
A trip to Parintins awakens memories of the Folklore Festival in a man. On a boat on the Amazon River, he remembers the marujada of the Boi Caprichoso and the drumming of the Boi Garantido. He is amazed by the riverside children who brave the strong waters.
An affective approach to the relationship between Mário Pedrosa, one of the greatest art critics of the 20th century, and some of the most important Brazilian artists takes the viewer on a journey through Brazilian art from the 1950s.
An illiterate lady seeks to soothe the missing of her son asking for a friend to read several times the same unique and old letter sent by her son ten years ago. Through these readings , a great friendship and complicity were born between them.
A young man from Rio who, down on his luck in the capital, takes a job as manager of a sugar mill in the country, where he finds love with the mill owner’s daughter. The former manager, who had been demoted for incompetence, becomes jealous and tries to sabotage the mill.
In a black community on the outskirts of Recife, female solidarity ensures the celebration of Jade Nicole’s 8th birthday, even while her mother is away at work. The community, located on a flight path, hears the sound of airplanes as the children imagine wars from old movies. The adults join forces to survive their daily battles.