Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

A short film by Vinícius Romero.

Tiago, a young cinephile who loves old movies, goes to the theater with his friend Daniel to watch one of his favourite films: “Rebel Without a Cause”. However, that same evening is the premiere of the newest super-hero movie “Captain Stark Episode VI – The Interplanetary Fall”, which can put Tiago’s plans at stake.

A humming look into a casual and ephemeral day.

A fairy tale about childhood homophobia.

Returning to his homeland after many years away, Juvenal, an agricultural engineer with liberal ideas, finds himself caught up in the social unrest on the island of Madeira that preceded the 1974 revolution, which is condemned by his brother Álvaro, an embroidery manufacturer and staunch conservative. Exposed to the romantic schemes devised by Álvaro, Juvenal vigorously defends the exploited workers and is reunited with Elisabeth, the great love of his youth. Wounded while taking part in a popular demonstration that is violently suppressed by the police, he is sentenced to exile on the island of Sal. Elisabeth decides to accompany him, announcing that she is expecting his child... eternity!

On Christmas Eve, Luccas and his sister Gi, amazed by the mall's decorations, end up losing their parents. But what would be a fun night becomes dangerous when they discover a pair of thieves. And now who will save Christmas? Is God on Luccas' side?

It is a film about the deep Brazil, not Brazil as a society, state or experience; it is a film about a geological, prehistoric and pre-logical Brazil. The adventures of the Caribbean monster, its wanderings along a virgin beach evoke, before Brazil, the artistic wanderings of a filmmaker in constant friction and, why not say, struggle against the mommy-daddy cinema, produced without taste, without joy and without adventure.

Inspired by ideas from Che Gueravara and Regis Debray, a group of teenagers decided to create, in the 60s, a guerrilla group in the rural areas of Catolé do Rocha, Paraiba, Brazil. Focused on fighting local oligarchs and the military dictatorship, they ended up in jail - where they discovered a whole different form of revolution.

Years after losing her grandmother, Roberta lives a solitary life. Her isolation leaves little space for affection, and she is trapped in a draining daily grind. Everything changes when she discovers an old recipe book belonging to her late grandmother, a master in the kitchen. Following the handwritten instructions, Roberta redescobers her love for food and the art of bringing people together.

Julia is a successful journalist who lives in a comfortable apartment in São Paulo with her husband, a surgeon, and their young son. At first glance, her life seems perfect—but she hides a secret: a compulsion for risky sex. When her husband suggests the family move to a smaller city, Julia sees the move as a chance to leave behind her self-destructive behavior and become the wife and mother she always wanted to be. However, as the moving date approaches, her compulsion intensifies, threatening to expose her secrets and jeopardize her family and emotional stability.

Cora, a young language teacher, faces problems with one of her students and decides to take a sleeping pill. When she wakes up at the next morning, she notices her house is overturned, her bicycle is missing and a body was found in the Capibaribe River, in front of her house. She now finds herself between reality and fantasy, in a dilemma about her relationship with the crime.

This is a journey of friendship, an Argentinian is going to rediscover his continent while searching for his friend from Bahia. And while the work, the records and the career of this great lady of Brazilian music are well known, the starting point, the training, the first years remained till now in a vaguely legendary and imprecise blur. Thanks to many investigations that concern as many places as times, thanks to journeys back in time through the towns and regions, the film seeks the origins of Maria Bethânia’s voice and style. Helped and led by Bethânia herself, with the assistance of Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque, the two princes of Brazilian music, along with the complicity of the great Gilberto Gil, the author is allowed to go to the first context : the North-East. In the family home in Santo Amaro, the film finally touches the childhood of Maria Bethânia – and her brother Caetano, and this mysterious point – from which the music radiates.

During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns to the farm. The film is divided in five short horror stories.

Ítalo has a date with a man in an abandoned warehouse in Varadouro, but when he gets there he encounters other unexpected things.

Rebels on the surface, retrogrades in essence. “The Ridiculists”, a duo composed of the eccentric and explosive, “The Ridiculer”, and his faithful squirer, “The Talker”, roam through the Brazilian capital breaking into homes, committing murders, as they create a legion of blind supporters along the way.

A researcher invites a local guide to accompany her to the ruins of the old Don Felipe club, in the Nova Iguaçu Municipal Park. On the trail, his investigation is threatened by unexpected events.

“Friends Forever” tells the story of three friends: Di, Drix and Mari. The girls meet, become super friends and live an adventure when leaving their cities to try the "star life" in São Paulo.

Film about the Bahian singer dives into the moment when shy Gracinha becomes Gal Costa, during the violent, innovative and mind-blowing years that helped shape Brazil's greatest singer.

The pages of the artist Judith Malina's diary, imprisoned by the military dictatorship during the season of the Living Theater group in Brazil. The documentary chronicles the visit of the actress and her theatrical company to the country.

MTV ao vivo is the third live album released by Brazilian rock band Titãs. Up to 2007, their latest album. Its brief lifespan in Brazilian charts inspired the band to took a more pronounced delay before another studio album was recorded. Band members enjoyed the opportunity for more solo projects, some successful as Sérgio Britto's single Raquel (DDD) which received some mainstream airplay during the first half of 2007.

A film student goes to sleep and wakes up in a world similar to German expressionism, but the beings in that world have similarities with the girl.

Brazilian TV movie featuring the characters of the beloved literaly classic "Sítio do Picapau Amarelo"

A shy young man does everything he can to find out who owns a T-shirt on the collective clothesline of his building.

Working as a TV host of an important political campaign for mayor, Luisa suffers with the professional relations with her co-workers. It’s the last week before the first round of local elections and Luisa, away from her hometown and family, discovers a serious scandal that could jeopardize the entire election. Not only must she now decide her fate, but that of an entire city.

When Alan and Daniel get into a fight during their anniversary, fate intervenes to teach them a lesson about true love. Daniel wakes up in an alternate universe where their relationship ended years ago. Alone and confused, he begins to realize how much he took for granted and sets out on a mission to win back the love of his parallel life.

After her mother's death, Ana returns to her reclusive father's house and comes across the paintings he creates to cope with grief. She soon discovers how these artworks reveal his deteriorating mental health and blur the boundaries between art and nightmare.

The Walking Gay is based on the almost homonymous series created by Robert Kirkman. In The Walking Dead we see what life on Earth is like after a zombie apocalypse - in our case, there is an "outbreak" of homosexual freedom, in which the vast majority of the Earth's population "became" gay. survivors of the epidemic - conservatives, extremist religious, homophobes and false moralists - must now unite to find a new home, away from the threat of the Affected. family from this immorality.

Marcos and Sérgio go to the countryside for the weekend. Newly divorced, Marcos takes his little daughter to the trip. There they receive the visit of the sinister land keeper, Mrs. Ária, who tells the story of a missing child in the property. The trip becomes a nightmare as mysterious events occur in the house. Now the fate of the characters is traced by the fear hidden in the shadow. Where do the shadows go when the lights turn on?

The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light district, who are joined by a group of hippies and a runaway stockbroker, "Mangue-Bangue" is the paradigmatic expression of the post-1968 spirit of desbunde, the Brazilian slang catchword for "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll".

A subtle morning, in the subtle life of Judite and the subtle Eduardo, marked by macabre and not at all subtle circumstances.

The documentary "Caixa D'água: Qui-lombo is this?" It reports, through testimonies from former residents and photographic collections, the importance in the cultural and historical scope of the Getúlio Vargas neighborhood located in Aracaju, capital of Sergipe. Emphasis is placed on black culture and the presence of black slaves and their descendants, with the rescue of issues related to their origin, orality, geographical location and awareness of their racial identity, showing that, although this community exists in an urban area, it still maintains many aspects of the quilombo life of the former black slaves in Brazil.

A homage to Virgin Mary by brazilian women.

Boy from a poor family loses his only asset: a colorless little horse that his imagination turns into a magical and colorful pretty stallion. To get his pet back, he leaves home and faces all dangers ahead with courage, getting involved in many adventures.

Documentary of the legendary 1985 music festival in Brazil.

A day in the life of a young man who aspires to be a filmmaker in Belo Horizonte. He is aware that there are many obstacle to shooting and the city is just one of them. He is not giving up, at least not without rebelling...

Camila broke up with her boyfriend recently. She's been going out and spending time with her girlfriends and her dog.