Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

On screen, a bride gets ready for her wedding day. Off screen, middle-class young women from Rio de Janeiro share their experiences and impressions concerning virginity, marriage, sex and politics.

Love, sex and death get mixed in a love story between two desperate boys in a big city.

A hard working man goes to São Paulo to look for his twin brother unaware that he's famous for his lazyness.

A collection of 13 little stories. Black and white, with just instrumental music.

A small-scale romantic love story, shot with a digital camera in black & white and in a documentary style. We follow the conversation between two lovers, each on a different side of the world; he is in Recife, she is in Kyiv. On one side is dark, on the other light, but both experience the same emotions and hence feel nearness and contact.

Jesus Christ returns to planet Earth and is beaten up by the Christian community, which takes great pleasure in showing him christian affection!

A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".

Victor comes home exhausted after another long day at work. When he sees his bathroom drain glowing to strange noises, he tries to figure out what’s going on.

The stories told by those who live from the Rio Potengi reveal the rhythm of the tides, flowing through memories, silences, and the strength of a river that resists between the mangrove, time, and the city.

Exotismos arises from Yoná's ambition to confront stereotypes associated with beauty and aesthetics, which explore the insecurities of self-esteem. With an artistic approach, she creates cuts and colors that transcend visual changes. In a vibrant and intimate setting, the film portrays dialogues and transformations that reveal not only the expression of hair, but also the individuality of dissident bodies in the cultural effervescence of the capital of Goiás.

A middle-aged man has just moved in to his new apartment. Everything is doing great, until his upper floor neighbor starts to say "hi".

The drought in Sao Paulo is the starting point of the journey. Uneasy with the images of empty reservoirs of hydrodams in southeastern Brazil, a filmmaker seeks to understand these pharaonic constructions, now built in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. Among the Xingu, Tapajós and Ene rivers, echo the voices of riverines, indigenous people and fishermen and those affected by the arrival of so-called development. A boat movie and a reflection on the impact of our lifestyle.

Tom is an 18-year-old deaf boy who lives with his overprotective brother, Eliel. His life changes when he meets the dancer Anthony. As the two grow closer and Tom's feelings for Anthony awaken, a new perspective emerges in his life, leading him to follow the path he always wanted: his own.

Everyday life on the beach, filming a short film, the sea as the horizon.

Akin is a dedicated Cuban doctor working in Brazil for the Mais Medicos/More Doctors programme in 2018. From his daily routine in an indigenous community to his intimate moments with Érica and Sérgio, his relationship with Brazil gets deeper and stronger. With the election of Jair Bolsonaro, the cooperation between the two countries ends abruptly. He must make a decision: return to Cuba and abandon the relationships he has been cultivating or stay and reinvent himself without being able to practice medicine.

The documentary reconstructs the history of Graúna, one of the most famous comic characters in Brazil during the '70s. Analyzing creator Henfil's usage of this poor, little, female blackbird to criticize the social inequities and censorship in Brazil of the time, testimonies from family and fellow cartoonists shed light into why "Reading Again Graúna" is still relevant today.

An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth.

"Matriz.doc", directed by Otavio Sousa, is a film about the making of Pitty’s album Matriz. It features behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with collaborators, and visits to key locations in Salvador, Bahia, connected to the artist’s early career. The documentary explores the creative process and the cultural influences that shaped the album.

Guigo is in love with Sabrina, with whom he exchanges messages through his cell phone. He is the son of separated parents. One day he and his friend Túlio travel to a fishery with their father, Roberto, and his friend, Paulo.

Seven adolescents take on the mission of filming, for one week, their family's housemaids and hand over the footage to the director to make a film. The images that confront us uncover the complex relationship that exists between housemaids and their employers, a relationship that confuses intimacy and power in the workplace and provides us with an insight into the echoes of a colonial past that linger in contemporary Brazil.

On a hot summer night, someone pushes their body to the limit through dance, plunging into a delirium that merges their desires and sorrows.

The creator of an artificial intelligence that helps people with relationships begins to believe that he is possessed by the AI ​​itself. In the same time, a user of the same AI also begins to go crazy, causing the two to fall into a kind of insanity, unable to tell the difference between reality and fantasy.

Documentary short film about the director, Leonardo Raimundi, and his trip to São Paulo, Brazil, alongside his friends on September 2023.

After an accident projects her into a comatose state, the dreaming Claire plunges into a visually poetic and sensorial journey through her subconscious.

The hero without character is back. Here, two Macunaímas encounter with one mission in common which is to leave the place they're currently living: one is running away from the deforestation in the Amazon while the other got tired of living in heaven and wants to return to his land.

The documentary mixes reenactments with true accounts from four characters/actors who tell the stories of six black gay men, their experiences and their romantic relationships crossed by racism and homophobia.

One of the greatest pests on the planet, the evil ants destroy the forest to protect their family. Memories of the covid-19 pandemic, eroded by ignorance and negationism. What's left in this great country of worms and viruses?

Based on the well-known poem by Jayme Caetano Braun, Bochincho, O Filme tells the story of an old man who, together with business partners, evokes his memories of a picturesque episode of his past in Rio Grande do Sul.

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)

When a man returns to his hometown after losing the love of his life, he tries to fill the void in his heart by dating various strangers. However, after each connection, the loneliness still lingers and he is left with no choice but to move on to more dangerous sexual experiences...

In a Brazil taken over by a new dictatorial regime, Íris, a young hacker whose father was taken as a political prisoner, discovers an online challenge from a secret organization known only as 'Cicada,' which will set her on a journey that could change the course of the country... and also uncover what really happened to her father.

In the past, a man falls in love with a woman.

The painter Tino, in professional and political crisis, receives a telegram from his mother-in-law, Selma, announcing her return from Europe. After his wife's death, Tino continues living with Selma, with whom he had ambiguous relations, which he now wants to sever. Weak at this impossible love, he asks the maid Enedina to lock him in his room. There, he revives memories through letters, notes and photographs. Selma's son João is waiting for her at the airport and dreams of loving fulfillment in his own mother's arms.

Documentary about Brazilian poet Waly Salomão, for whom life was always a fictional film and poetry was a way to expose any naturalistic pretention. His convictions affected many friends like Antonio Cícero, Caetano Veloso and Carlos Nader, who documented Waly's life for 15 years. But how does one make a documentary about someone who believes everything is fiction?

This is a live DVD recorded for MTV in 2004, where the former Titãs frontman performs 18 songs from various phases of his career. As usual, when it comes to these MTV live recordings, the sound and production is very slick and elaborate, constituting a rich framework for Nando Reis' music. Worth special mention here are the versions of some of his own tracks that were previously recorded by other artists, such as "Relicário," "All Star" and the beautiful "O Segundo Sol" (all three by Cássia Eller) and "Do Seu Lado" (Jota Quest). The old Titãs material is also excellent, as for example the hit "Cegos do Castelo," the reggae "Marvin" and the slightly odd but humorous "Não Vou Me Adaptar." The mildly meditative "Mantra" is another highlight. On "Pomar" Reis is joined by the young band Ultramen from Rio Grande do Sul. The fine production and excellent song material make this perhaps Nando Reis' strongest effort as a solo artist.

A documentary that tells the history of Grêmio Football Porto-Alegrense from its foundation in 1903 to the triumph of the 1997 Copa do Brasil. In addition to providing the historical panorama of the achievements of the club, the documentary explores the relationship between club and supporter through testimonies of players, coaching staff, former presidents and fans.

Sérgio Mallandro is chosen by an alien to be the one to receive special powers to do good. But before that he must prove his worth and kind heart by rescuing a girl's pet. Along the way, he is frequently hampered by an envious villain.

Incapable of facing the loss of Pedro, Lucas and Mari dive in past memories. Remembering of happy moments, they discover that pain can, in the end, also mean longing.

In a magical realist world where you can have a conversation with your guardian angel, Duvo, a 25-year-old gangster, searches for peace and redemption from a life marked by crime in this beautifully lyrical look at life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

In a city gripped by fear, a criminal roams free — while Antônio, a quiet ride-share driver trapped in the monotony of his own existence, begins to question the meaning of his life. One night, a mysterious passenger enters his car… leading him down a dark and unpredictable road.