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A woman impressed by news reports about flying saucers, gets hit on the head by a vase, passes out and dreams that she is the 'Queen of Mars', from where she sends an expedition to Earth in order to bring back Rio's Carnaval to the planet.
The film tells the story of a key figure associated with the Brazilian medium Chico Xavier: the spirit Emmanuel, also known as his mentor.
Maria, a young woman confined by loneliness and the weight of a conflicting past, lives suffocating days in a house that holds memories and silences. Between erased traditions and choices, she challenges the impositions of purity, searching, between guilt and resistance, for a way to escape the imposed pain.
Two girls need to overcome their relationship when life starts to change.
A transgender girl locks herself in her room, safe from the monsters outside that threaten her, until a parallel reality appears behind the mirror, where monsters don’t exist, and people are free to be themselves.
Sweet Karolynne tells the tale of the little one who lends her name to the title of the film, her relationship with the pet rooster Jarbas, the singer Elvis Presley and her family.
Shot in a single day, "Monstrolândia" follows the challenge of capturing Brazil's via crucis of winning the London Olympic Games.
It tells the story of the musicians who revitalized Lapa, from the end of the 90s, in meetings on the small stage of "Bar Semente". The documentary is a historical record of a stronghold of cultural effervescence that remained in the affective memory of Rio de Janeiro.
Felipe is confronted by his wife, unhappy with the marriage, and by his mother-in-law. A simple discussion of relationship turns into a nightmare.
Rui arrives in a small town looking for his father, a prospector. Before that, he gets involved with Maria, who is facing problems in the family. Maria's stepfather is the head of a gang and will go to any lengths to prevent Rui from finding his father.
Young executive woman returns to small town of Dois Córregos and remembers the time, in the late 1960s, when she met her uncle there, a man who was running away from the military dictatorship ruling Brazil at the time.
Eros, the capricious god of love, fires his arrows at whim, toying with mortal hearts. Everything changes when one strikes sweet, dreamy Alma and he discovers that even gods cannot escape their own poison.
Francesco Croquete Margharette leads a journey through the thoughts of Florestan Fernandes and his work The Integration of Black People in Class Society.
The story of the relationship between Military Police commander Domingos Macedo and his children over three decades. Raised in a toxic family environment, the children struggle to survive the rigid rule of a man forged by the brutality of the Military Police. Flávia learns early on that defending herself is an act of rebellion and transforms fear into strength, until she manages, in her own way and by her own rules, to challenge her father's power on the Andaraí favela (community).
Issues that make gender identity a social construct are exposed through the relationship between a teenager, a mother and the place where they live.
Xeu and Lidiane are going to have a child. She pressures him to sell his motorcycle and get another job. The news of the pregnancy and Xeu’s to a cousin in Maré brings instability to the relationship.
In the underworld of "Boca do Lixo" in São Paulo, a heterogeneous group of prostitutes turns an alley into a meeting point where customers are attracted. They are women who sell themselves to men of all classes. Surrounded by drunks, addicts, bandits, drug dealers and pimps, together they form a gallery of characters put together by affliction and disappointment. Cora, an older woman who works to support her paralytic son. Beth, kind of a leader, who had to prostitute herself at an early age after leaving her small country town. Sônia, the most intelligent of the group, who lets herself be exploited by a ruffian. Brigite, daughter of factory workers. Vera, who just started in the profession. In addition to the drama of these women, there are many others who give themselves daily to customers who ignore their fate
The work of Nelson Pereira dos Santos guides the documentary, which traces the path taken by Cinema Novo and addresses the issues raised by the filmmaker during the filming of Brazilian Cinema classics.
The town of Vila Velha is put under a reign of terror by a powerful colonel nicknamed "The Devil", who influences local politicians and hires gunslingers to shoot down those who stand up to him.
The plot follows Rique, a famous writer who begins to experience the characters from his unfinished book. Lígia, a publisher in crisis, tries to help him finish the work, while Bruna, a young woman with schizophrenia, fantasizes about a relationship with the writer.
In its narrow and winding streets, there are still churches, the old and rich houses in ruins and the houses of the poor, recalling the lavish past of the city of Laranjeiras, in Sergipe.
A young sorceress with polymorphic capacities joins the Magisterium of ‘Pataphysics.
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from the sixty hours of recovered raw footage.
Mr. Kapa and his assistant meet Iara, a mythical being, in a river with purple waters. Geléia, the assistant, fills a bottle with this magic water and makes three puppets turn alive.
Pedro is given leave from jail to visit his family in Patos. During his visit, he confronts old ghosts and plans a new direction for his life, while discovering in Pamela, his teenage cousin, the same flame that burned in his heart.
Nearly century-old history, Brazilian animation brings rich and stimulating stories and characters that built the path until nowadays.
Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will let down Pierre, the French consul at São Paulo, and with him the frivolity of tea-parties and comfort. Her wild inner-soul will develop into the wild forest surroundings of a landlord's farmhouse. To the extent she will defend her land like a 19th century owner - of lands and men alike.
“Nós, Voz, Eles” is a project by Brazilian singer-songwriter Sandy, which consists of duets with Brazilian musical artists in a studio at her home. The songs included in the project were released individually and preceded by their respective episodes, which are part of the web series “Nós, Voz, Eles”, where the process of creating the songs is shown. After the individual release of the songs, they were compiled into two albums, released in 2018 and 2022. In 2023, the singer releases the live version of the project, in video and audio, recorded during the tour with the same name, bringing together artists who previously recorded songs with the singer, and some recent singles.
Through reports from people who live or have experienced the routine of fighting drug trafficking and the police, mixed with reports from security specialties, psychologists, writers and journalists, we want to present the public with both sides of the same tragedy. Without taking sides either way, bringing the viewer to reflect on our current public security policy and its consequences on the lives of the population.
A few days after his grandfather's death, young Igor decides to make a documentary about the history of his family in an attempt to understand why his grandfather, Guilhermino, was obsessed with strange facts that had happened in his city. Thus, in 1990, in the interior of the state Rio Grande do Sul, Igor and his father Nilson interview relatives, friends and people involved in the case in an attempt to undo the bad name of his grandfather, but what they find out is a part of the story of the state, unraveling mysteries related to extraterrestrials, failed space programs and a muddled mission of the Cold War.
While a soccer team plays its games, events are experienced inside the houses. In other spaces, clay and the measure of a family's conflict.
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.
A housewife with the dream of becoming a writer is unhappy in her marriage and finds love in the arms of another woman.
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.
From Brazilian favelas to dusty Congolese villages, from a neolithic Scottish island and Mayan royal courts to modern English soccer pitches, “Bounce” explores the little-known origins of our favorite sports across the centuries, and traces how a simple invention like the ball has come to stake an unrivaled claim on our passions, our gaming consoles, our money, and our lives. Equal parts science, history and visual essay, “Bounce” removes us from the scandals and commercialism of today's sports world to uncover the true reasons we play ball, helping us reclaim our universal connection to the ball games we love.
When the plans for the future change, new bonds are created between Danilo, Lucas and Marcos. in between video-games and milk cups, pain and disappointment, they need to learn how to live together.
Journalist Geneton Moraes Neto interviews Brazilian international players who lost to Uruguayan national team in the finals of the World Cup 1950 in Maracanã stadium.
A generation reminisces about its own memory — what was it like to be a queer man in decades past? With São Paulo in the background, they reflect about the urgency of a life that was kept hidden for so long. And it is at Bailão that these various stories converge.
A single and apparently humdrum scene in which various days all blend into one. A couple is having breakfast in the kitchen. He is older, greyer, more anguished than she, who is light, pretty and giddy. A morning like any other, were it not for the secret fact that it would be their last together.
Marcelo’s mother disappeared when he was 10 years old, leaving him with an endless void. The boy grows into a young man who wanders through cemeteries and takes refuge in invented memories to cope with reality. One day, two mysterious beings cross his path, and Marcelo sets off with them on a journey across the boundaries between the world of the living and the world of the dead.
A young indigenous rapper tries to find his identity amidst the genocide of his people.
In response to Marielle Franco's execution, the 2018 elections turned into the biggest political upheaval led by black women that Brazil has ever seen, with candidacies in all states. In Rio de Janeiro, Mônica Francisco, Rose Cipriano, Renata Souza, Jaqueline de Jesus, Tainá de Paula and Talíria Petrone applied for the positions of state or federal deputy. The documentary accompanied these women in their campaigns, showing that a new way of doing politics in Brazil is possible, transforming mourning into struggle.
One day in the land of Oz, Cap'n Bill enlists the aid of the Scarecrow to help him take young Trot to her new home in Jinxland, only to find it’s been taken over by an evil king.
In Iquitos, during the era of military dictatorships, a consul must face the arrival of a daughter he does not see in years and the stalking of a military collaborator diplomat who comes to discover his protection to a deserter pilot.
Beth, Milena, and Carina are three college students who've shared some of Rio's most wild and legendary parties for the past few semesters. After living in New York for a year, Beth returns on New Year's Eve a changed girl, willing to mend her ways and grow up. Milena and Carina, however, are not happy about their friend's change - Keen on stopping Beth form becoming "respectable" at all costs, they show up at her house with dozens of friends to celebrate the New Year. Before dawn, secrets will be revealed, friendships will be tested, hearts will broken, and tears (and other bodily fluids) will be spilled. As the night unfolds, we also witness past events in a seedy nightclub, which changed the lives of those three girls forever.
A political film about the lack of connectivity between people, mainly due to the self-destructive speed of capitalism/liberalism/fascism. The short film is narrated in Morse code (ideally, you should study Morse code to watch it in a dark room for better immersion in the experience and greater discomfort followed by strangeness) with slogans against capitalism and bosses/billionaires. The choice of title is sexual, it dialogues with the main character (a man) who, with paid sex, has never been able to, nor has he bothered to find his partners' point of pleasure.
During a commemorative meeting, Sofia, the only daughter, finds herself clashing with the behavior of her conservative family members and realizes all the hypocrisy that hides behind a family lunch.