Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

Jonas lives in a seaside town and has to deal with people leaving his town all the time. After his friend Giovanna has to move to the big city, Jonas isolates himself in his room taking turns between reading and watching with curiosity his neighbor, Gaspar, through the window. However, one day he hears a strange, incessant noise coming from his neighbor's house, a noise that seems to be being transmitted by a new girl in town, Sophia.

Diana, a pregnant architect, is hired to work in the renovation of the old Cinema Khouri, abandoned after the tragic death of a child. However, when she gets trapped inside there, Diana discovers the old cinema is not only alive, but hides an entity that wishes to keep her in there forever.

Cosmopolitan and provincial, Curitiba can be a good synthesis of conflicts. Through the stories of four characters who don't know each other but whose fates are intertwined—a car dealer, a motorcycle courier, a bus driver, and a paper collector—the film chronicles the daily struggle for survival.

Agripino and Sandoval roam around their workplace, Machiavelli Incorporated, a venture which they plan to expand whatever the costs.

The image of a body that is not in front of the camera. The absence of an image. The presence of a body. The materiality of a dream that is impossible to remember when one wakes up. Someone falls in love. Someone searches for words. Someone moves. Someone falls, or flies. Everyone dances.

Just as Walt Disney, through films and cartoons, manipulates thousands of children and even adults, creating in their subconscious a distorted image of what is right or wrong. Thus generating reckless attitudes that distance us further and further from God, thus bringing unhappiness to many homes... But learn today how to avoid this evil, taking children and young people out of the hands of Satan.

An advertising man has a brilliant idea: solving the drought problem in Northeast Brazil by driving wells with drills. But he's seen as a threat by political forces that want to keep the region in its feudal status.

In São Paulo’s city center, 120 Latin artists live and produce at Ouvidor, the biggest artist occupation in Latin America. While there are constant threats of eviction, residents face an increasing internal turmoil due to Red Bull becoming the sponsor of their Art Biennale.

A documentary about a doorman at his workplace, observing, through a television, different views of a residential building.

The paths of two neighbors (one, a practitioner of an Afro-Brazilian religion, and the other, a protestant) start to cross when a leakage opens a hole between the wall dividing their two homes.

A woman goes alone through the streets of Moscow, getting on and off subway trains and underground passages on her way to a meeting that includes a screening of a film about a cat. And that's it; or so it is for those who believe the plot is the best part of cinema. The Jahn-Dullius duet makes an enigmatic film between abstraction and trance. Because as they search for that visual purity that's historically connected to experimental cinema--equally far from theatrical as from the written word-- they leave one thing clear: cinema is all about images.

Daniel sets a date for casual sex with a stranger at his place. He lives moments of adrenaline in a night where not everything is what it seems.

PLURAL is a journey through the intricate construction of identity. Guilherme Terreri and Rita Von Hunty unfold to explore the fluid boundaries of the integral self and human expression.

The last day in the life of a gay man who relives the memories of his first and only great love.

Two people who find themselves struggling with their own feelings, take a trip to the country side. Trying to make peace with their struggles and their thoughts.

The government decides to change the way people kiss. There is a youth competiton to invent a new kind of kiss, and the final is between two groups, one from the north and one from the south of São Paulo.

After breaking up with his boyfriend, Bressan will try to tell the story of his relationship in a not so ordinary love tale.

The life and highlights of Marshal Cândido Rondon.

A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. "It's super-intellectual. A fable-musical-philosophical-chanchada", Mautner says. He also affirms that the work focuses a lot on the longing for Brazil, on the will that the exiled had to return to their homeland. The idea came from conversations between the musician and his old father, "always talking about the pre-Socratics", he recalls. Glauber Rocha states that "The Demiurge" is the best film "of" and "about" exile.

On the coldest night in São Paulo in decades, an electric shower breaks down, and a dysfunctional family is forced to brave the cold and each other as they try to fix the appliance.

The story unfolds through three parallel narratives: that of a painter, that of a musician, and that of volunteer clowns who visit hospitals in Foz do Iguaçu, state of Paraná, Brazil, bringing moments of comfort to patients in the city's neighborhoods.

Vinicius is a sound technician with ultra-sensitive hearing. The film narrates how he perceives the world through invisible noises, transforming the sound of the city into an intimate and isolating experience.

Laura investigates a series of disappearances and seeks out Dona Lurdes, the woman whose report against a suspect shifted the entire case. But as their conversation deepens, Laura begins to sense that the truth hiding beneath their words is far stranger than she ever imagined.

While waiting to be called for her appointment in a waiting room, Lia, a psychiatric patient, wants to leave and give up on her treatment. But Maria, her companion, is determined to make her stay.

Located in the heart of University of São Paulo's School of Communication and Arts, the Prainha ('Little Beach') is the epicenter of students' artistic, cultural, political and social endeavors. But once the university demands its closure for structural and aesthetic renovations — a controversial project in and of itself —, the response is an outcry of mourning and frustration. The documentary explores different experiences from people whose work and passions were born in the history of the Prainha, and what are the hopes for the future of the space.

Sleep demons, crazy crows and terrific friends embark an adventure into the subconscious. In this compilation of three videos, originally posted on the "Victor Marp" youtube channel, three concepts about sleep are explained. They are sleep paralysis, somnambulism and common quotes?

Tiago and Letícia study in Curitiba, Brazil. Facing an uncertain future, the couple meets with friends to celebrate a birthday party. Meanwhile, they must make an important decision about their relationship.

Three women have their lives intertwined by a tumultuous past. This encounter unlocks a locked window toward a new destiny.

Luccas and Gi prepare for the biggest competition the Roxteen gang has ever faced. When they lose their sponsor, they will have to come up with the most outlandish ideas and participate in a gymkhana full of music and adventure to reach the Final Challenge.