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A small tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982).
"Morada" is an experimental documentary that shows a little about the city of Acari, located in Seridó Potiguar. It has the main participation of Eilson Amarildo, better known as Negão Azul, who unloads fruits, vegetables and groceries in the municipality of Acari and neighboring regions.
In São Paulo, Mariza divides her time between her home office and coloring mandalas. Marcia paints the ceiling with the color of the sky. And Antônio, or Juninho, wants to stop working as an app driver and make a movie.
"My Heart Is A Little More Empty In The Flood" embraces the liminal point that traverses the first-person documentary: the intertwining between personal memory and collective experience. The film's structural elements: an emphasis on an element simultaneously natural and transfigured by the works of the lives of countless people, the figured climax in the encounter with a fortuitous and festive time; as if trying to underline these threads that run through the individual and the collective.
An immersive look at the life of Maíra, a woman who lives in a small seaside town where she works as a masseuse in a resort. She pends her days in a routine without great enthusiasm and prospects, dividing herself between a bland job, a distant husband and long walks around the neighborhood. One afternoon, she is faced with an event that reverberates inside Maíra as an impulse to review her life as a whole.
A trip to Parintins awakens memories of the Folklore Festival in a man. On a boat on the Amazon River, he remembers the marujada of the Boi Caprichoso and the drumming of the Boi Garantido. He is amazed by the riverside children who brave the strong waters.
Documentary about Humberto Mauro, his work and its importance.
André is the powerful owner of an illegal casino and popular gambling ("Jogo de Bicho") on the streets. His gang is in war against the gang of Fiore that is trying to steal the gambling establishments of André. When the prostitute Margot sees her old friend and ex-con Sarja working as a waiter in the casino where she tricks clients, she invites him to stay with her in her apartment. When André, who is gay, sees the handsome Sarja, he falls in love with his employee that becomes his protégée. Meanwhile, Sarja and Margot plot to steal the high stakes on St George's Day and they invite André's henchman Lobão and two gangsters to participate in the heist. Meanwhile Fiore also plots to steal André's money with his gang.
Melissa, a young girl who has always lived in her own bubble, begins a new chapter when she starts college and decides to live in a student house. There, she allows herself to have new experiences, going through a process of growing up and gradually discovering a new family.
A woman waits.
Deepening into the contemporary Brazilian drag scene, "All That Drag" answers many questions about a little known story. The film investigates this artistic expression and the freedom it represents through five drag artists.
For thirty years, Carlos Escayola was the main politician of the small town of Tacuarembó, Uruguay. This farmer was known both for his political and cultural achievements (including the construction of a theater), and for the reputation of seducer, which earned him one of the greatest family polemics in the history of the region.
On Christmas Eve, Mauro, a reporter, has 24 hours to find a headline.
Jorge is a writer trying to finish his first novel with the help of his girlfriend. But she doesn't know how real is the fiction of his book.
Brazil, 1930. Marcos and his family (descendants of slaves) left the Jequitinhonha Valley for the Mucuri Valley. Fleeing from the drought, hunger and violence in the countryside, the "quilombolas" sought a new territory to build their community. Decades later, when everything seems to be in peace, a huge construction company wants to build a dam in Marques' territory.
A young man on leave from prison, his straitlaced brother, his best friend, a rookie cop and a young actress collide over the course of 72 hours.
A 52-year-old woman's life is upended when she loses her job, enters menopause, and cares for an elderly dog abandoned by her mother. Posting about the dog online, she navigates the digital world while confronting the challenges of aging.
Amidst the covid-19 quarantine, a young woman makes video calls with 3 different woman under suspicious pretexts - but something bigger connects them.
A guy is offered a job as caretaker of a house and decides to bring his new love along. However, she still has to split with her former boyfriend. Her solution: she'll write a break-up letter, and her new boyfriend has to deliver it. A playful look at love and loyalty.
Live concert that showcases the Brazilian singer Marisa Monte's exceptional talent and charisma. Recorded during her acclaimed 2001 tour, the DVD captures Monte's dynamic stage presence and her ability to blend various musical styles, including samba, MPB (Música Popular Brasileira), and pop.
Amanda leaves work one night and witnesses a murder. When she returns to the scene the next day, there’s no trace of the crime. Soon after, she begins seeing the killer everywhere — convinced she’s being followed, but unsure whether it’s real or just her mind unraveling.
In a town dominated by criminality, the destinies of a police chief and a nightclub performer intersect, leading both of them, and the city as a whole, to a tragic end.
Camila, a woman struggling to balance her personal and professional life, works at a restaurant on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. One day, an elderly woman arrives and strikes up a conversation with her. As it becomes more intense, the power suddenly goes out, plunging the restaurant into darkness. Despite their initial tension, they begin to find solace in each other's company.
Sheridan Le Fanu's classic story, Carmilla, is contrasted with Veronica and Amélia's, two rising actresses. Their relationship, which floats between hate, desire and passion, gets more intense when both get chosen to play opposites in the theatrical adaptation of Fanu's tale.
The story of a LGBTQIA+ child told through old images from VHS tapes. The videos were recorded by Vicente's father between 1987 and 1993.
Almost thirty years after the first reunion of Doces Bárbaros (four of Brazil's major popular music stars: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia), the artists involved decided to get together again for limited concerts in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in December 2002. The film documents the group's live performances, rehearsals and interviews.
A man kills his wife on their wedding night, after discovering she had been unfaithful. After being acquitted, he moves to the country, where he becomes part of a love triangle.
Rafael is a creative boy who finds support in his grandmother and sister to be his true self, despite the prejudiced looks around him, drawing inspiration from a magazine featuring Lady Gaga that he receives as a gift.
The story of resilience and hope of Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychologist who survived Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
The story portrays the beginning of the friendship between Diadorim, a dreamy girl, and Riobaldo, a happy little blue bird. In an abandoned land, apparently forgotten by the big city, Diadorim and Riobaldo together seek to free themselves from the limitations imposed by the speed of everyday demands. MIRÁ's first authorial project: Núcleo de Animação da EBA/UFBA, is inspired by the work of Manoel de Barros and the poetry “Tribute to João Guimarães Rosa”.
Ingrid Guimarães and Lázaro Ramos hit the ground running on Prime Video. The two Brazilian stars are joined by Juliette, Tia Má, Luana Martau, Lindsay Paulino, Pablo Sanábio and other special guests to talk about CHANGE with a lot of humor and irony. In a sequence of comic sketches, they reflect on struggles and lessons that brought us all to 2023.
Diamante is a gay boxer who stands out for his body control and fast leg movements. At night, he performs as a drag queen at a nightclub. His judgmental coach leaves him out of a boxing competition, but Diamante wants to be a champion.
Another day in the life of an elderly couple in the suburbs.
When American private eye Steve Marshall receives a mysterious summons to the sweltering streets of São Paulo, the mission seems clear-cut: find Louise Dunning, a woman on the run for the murder of her husband. But in the shadows of Brazil, nothing is as it seems. As Marshall closes in on his target, he begins to realize he isn't the one leading the hunt.. he's being steered.
Bondomil, a quiet little town, becomes famous because in its main square there's a tree with strange fruits, with the format of the male sex organ, supposed to be an aphrodisiac for women. Soon the population grows wild, and tourists gather around it.
Orphan sisters Clarice and Beatriz are in debt and have no prospects for the future, when they miraculously inherit the house of a distant aunt named Pietra. Then Beatriz finds a magical artifact that takes her to other spiritual dimensions, until she decides to perform a blood ritual to resurrect her deceased mother. What Beatriz doesn't know is that the spirit of her evil aunt is manipulating her to return to life.
In this visual essay, Ana Costa Ribeiro uses personal archives to delve into the adventurous, relatively short life of her grandfather Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro, a pioneer in experimental physics in Brazil in the middle of the last century. He was the discoverer of the thermodielectric effect: “something to do with lightning,” as it was explained in a child’s terms to his granddaughter.
