Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

Sequel to the 2018 box office hit, Minha Vida em Marte, the film will talk about Fernanda's grief after the death of her friend Aníbal.

A musical documentary on the popular 'brega' music from the state of Pernambuco, Brazil.

In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of Copacabana. Unsatisfied with their way of life, the couple decides to accept the offer of becoming housekeepers of a rich man's vacation residence in a beach town.

A man whose name is constantly changed by the other people.

A documentary about Joao Guimaraes Rosa's stay in Nazi Germany. The film captures the experience of the Brazilian vice-consul in Hamburg between 1938 and 1942, at the height of the Nazi regime and during the first years of the World War II. Using his writings from that time, as well as archive pictures, documents, survivors testimonies, and an unpublished interview with him, the film reveals new biographical aspects of one of the greatest writers in Brazilian history.

Panair do Brasil revives the story of the most important commercial aviation company in Brazil, between 1930 and 1965, with its commercial daring in establishing routes to the four corners of a continental country, taking the adventure of air transport to never-before imagined places, as well as the first international routes. Four decades after it closed its doors, it still retains a marked presence in the country's collective imagination for its pioneering spirit and stories of heroic deeds and for the bewilderment which was aroused by the facts surrounding its closure during the military regime.

One party, two girls flirt. When sex happens, there is someone watching.

Documentary on the life and work of José Lins do Rego (1901-1957), one of Brazil's greatest 20th century literary authors, writer of celebrated novels "Menino de Engenho", "Fogo Morto", "Moleque Ricardo", "Riacho Doce" and many more.

An unusual mix of candomblé, sex and crime. The story unfolds after young Belinda and her friends arrive at a seaside campsite. During an evening stroll, they witness a religious ritual.

Elise is running from a strange, obscured figure. The danger is at her home, her street - inside of her. She runs and runs, but doesn't seem to get away from it. Meanwhile, a mirrored figure is playing a chess game with her life.

The dedicated priest Pedro arrives in the city of Serinhaém, ready to reopen the church, closed by the feared local bandit, Rodrigo Napu, and tries to reestablish the Catholic faith of the population, oppressed by the domination of the evildoer.

The lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems.

This refers to the Krahô people and their way of relating to the Kupe (white people).

A writer married to an older man falls in love with an art dealer. She resists his advances, but through romantic, handwritten letters, she expresses her innermost desires and feelings for him. With her husband's illness and death, she breaks off contact.

The Century (O Século) is both the documentary of a performance and the documentary of an allegory. Without a human figure in view, scraps, debris, and junk are thrown dramatically from one side of an alley to the other, and then a volley begins from the other side.

The film discusses decisive moments in the life and career of Cauby Peixoto. In addition to interviews and recordings of the singer's concerts, the film uses testimonials from fans and artists such as Maria Bethânia, Emílio Santiago, Agnaldo Timóteo and Agnaldo Rayol, in addition to researchers Ricardo Cravo Albin and Rodrigo Faour.

Ayô is a young, gay, Black actor from Bahia, living in São Paulo, and dissatisfied with his love life. After some emotional disagreements with Manu, Ayô turns to dating apps, where he meets João, with whom he forms an instant connection. Professionally, Ayô also finds himself reflecting after Carla, his agent, makes him realize the harsh reality of being a Black artist in an inherently racist society.

Last ride of an old beggar woman around the old São Luís city revealing the helplessness of both under the sign of an unjust time.

A man is accused of shooting his wife and her lover but as we find out. It wasn't her lover...

This film offers a broad and intimate vision of the life at Várzea Queimada, an unique village of Piauí's sertão that developed it's own sign language, called CENA.

A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and Lírio Terron, a human rights activist. In fact, a journey that is not over in their lives. Jarda Icon teaches classes on how women can obtain their own orgasm. With her group of disciples and friends Ana Brasil, Sheyla Fernanda, Caroline Sylvie and Lakshmi she develops self-sustainable feminist and artistic projects. The film is political, but not at all politicized in the traditional sense. It is an ode to the underground and counterculture movements, it is a hymn to freedom, and its title is also a tribute to Oswald d Andrade, one of the main names in Brazilian modernism.

A group of friends, looking for a place to drink, kiss and dance, go over the limits when they decide to break into a motel room, not knowing that, because of their mixed feelings and a sense of immortality, their fun won't last long.

The comic docu-drama that follows four characters who share their stories (real and imagined) about frustrated love, addressing the most diverse superstitions and rituals performed in search of success in love. To delve into the nature of the accounts, fortune tellers, pais de santo, mums-de-santo, and seers are consulted to predict futures, give advice, and explain why people are obsessed with loving and being loved.

The theater, the actress, the actor: a love-hate relationship, a dispute, performances, the stage and life.

Diana returns to the community where she grew up during the feast of St. Cosme and Damian. A mysterious child invites her to play.

After the world gets inhabited by sound sensitive creatures, a man finds a girl and swears to protect her at all costs.

Isabel ritually invokes dark forces to keep herself the prettiest and disfigure anyone who threatens her superiority. A date becomes a bloody feast. Moved by, Isabel poisons a friend and makes her whole body burn. These are just some of Isabel's victims on this self-centered journey.

Poema (Poem): Visual poetry. A film where the corner is the film and the film is the corner.

Intermissions follows Lula during the hectic election campaign for the presidency in 2002. Lula gave filmmaker João Moreira Salles and his crew complete access, and the result is an intimate documentary of what went on behind the scenes. Sometimes, Lula is afraid that he will lose his freedom as president. Combined with Lula's candor, the film's observational style provides some very special insight into one of Brazil's most popular leaders.

Live performance of the album "PRISCILLA" (2024) shown in theaters. Act that concludes a remarkable era for the artist, inspiring her to have the courage and pride to be who she wants to be. Album interpreted, written and produced by PRISCILLA herself.

Freud studies Lacan's head while Lacan dismembers Freud's ear and the philosophy of butchery takes shape in academic intellectual dementia. They both say in chorus: "The truth can only be told in the fabric of fiction. Those who want it don't go crazy. Love is giving what you don't have to someone who doesn't want it. I think where I am not; therefore, I am where I don't think myself."

In a desert, a man and a woman walk side by side, but everything changes when the time comes.

A child's play turns out to be a nightmare when they set out to challenge an urban legend.

A movie by Isa Albuquerque starring Juan Alba.

Despite having the scar that marks the domesticated, Juliana has to keep her freedom. Is romance the ultimate trap?