Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

A woman awaiting for the bus, alone, faces an unwanted companion.

A boy arrives at the beach and decides to record an audio message for his friend. He talks about his fear, his loneliness, and this strange desire to disappear for a while. As the sea moves, he tries to understand how far this pain will go.

During Carnival, a woman wanders into a parade with ghostly, fantastical properties and falls in love with Laura, a reveler who seems to have been on the Phantom Parade for a little too long...

A musical documentary that follows the artist JACKSON around the process of composing his debut album "Chapter 19". The documentary explores JACKSON's creative process during an artistic retreat at Ilha do Ferro, Alagoas, known for its rich tradition of popular art. The film is an intimate portrait of artistic creation, celebrating the combination of tradition and cultural innovation at Ilha do Ferro.

An autoportrait from João Victor Montuori in a short-film format made for the 10th IFA Film Directing Masterclass with Ruben Östlund. Each student selected made their own video based on five questions with one and a half minutes limit. João used a mix between footage from his previous films and footage made especially for the autoportrait.

A map explores cruising spots in Natal/RN, where there are always champions in the bathrooms.

Gabrielle and Leonardo are a young couple used to a complex routine of erotic games. When their relationship enters a crisis, they start to seek new fantasies, each of which are more dangerous and destructive.

Bertha is a widow and lives alone on an isolated farm in the mountains of Santa Catarina. Beginning to face difficulties in keeping the property running, Bertha is under pressure from her son who wants her to move in with him in an upscale neighborhood of Florianópolis. Upon learning of the arrival of a group of Haitians in Santa Catarina, Bertha decides to bring the Haitian Bastide to work and live with her, fueling her son's hostility. The coexistence transforms the working relationship between Bertha and Bastide into a sincere friendship between two people from different cultures who share common ideas and feelings.

In a psychiatric clinic, Nina begins a journey into her own unconscious, a quest to find a path to shared reality.

Rebeca and her family move into an abandoned house with a sinister past. Her father wants to renovate the house and turn it into a rotisserie. With the help of her neighbor Lucas, Rebeca discovers that the former residents were attacked by a strange creature: The Killer Lasagna. The monster gains strength and grows as it feeds on the remains of food thrown down the pipes and, at the opening of the cantina, the Lasagna will attack again.

A woman gets trapped into the bathroom, there she must face her fears and a supernatural entity.

A detective is hired to solve the mysterious case of a businessman's murder. Now, after leaving the police for having failed in a case involving the wife of said businessman, he will be forced to confront his past, and solve, what may be, his last mystery.

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.

A couple in a bed. The young man wakes up, coughs a razor, leaves to shave then coughs up makeup and puts on makeup. The transformation can take place.

On a night like any other, the lonely Lucas casually meets Patricia Gennice, the most gorgeous girl in town, and she invites him to come to her house for a date in one hour. From then on, everything will go wrong for Lucas on his way to Patricia's place: he is robbed, kidnapped, threatened, tortured, sees angels and demons, and worst of all: he finds himself without condoms!

Gabriel, with only 17 years old, lives this particular universe: anxiously awaits an answer. While life stays violent on the outside, days, hours and minutes of the storm seems paused inside the room 516 of a hospital. He's waiting the result of a test that can change his life.

Recorded live in May of 2004 at the Olympia in Sao Paulo. Features new songs along with some of their greatest hits.

Two grave robbers meet the spirit of the tomb they desecrated

An adulterous man hires a private detective to follow his adulterous wife.

In Preparação I (Preparation I) Letícia Parente prepares herself to go out. In front of a bathroom mirror, she places bandages over her mouth and eyes, draws eyes and a mouth over the bandages, fixes her hair, takes her bag and leaves the room. This masquerade becomes a political commentary about the female gaze, voice, modes of interaction, sociality and corporeality in Brazilian society during the 1970s.

In Fortaleza, Brazil, Eugenio, Joaquim and João use a clandestine radio to scream their hunger for freedom and revolution. They hack the traditional radio stations, overwhelming them with poetry, rebel music, quotes, sound archives and provocations, attacking the bourgeois and capitalistic society. But one day, Salomé, a mysterious and beautiful listener, crashes into their lives, transforming their destiny.

A rare interview of Clarice Lispector, from 1977, to Julio Lerner, TV Cultura reporter. After its recording, Clarice asked for the interview to be aired only after her passing. It went on air ten months later. Clarice died in December 1977, aged 57. "Uma rara entrevista de Clarice Lispector, concedida em 1977, ao repórter Júlio Lerner, da TV Cultura. Depois de gravada, Clarice pediu que a entrevista só fosse divulgada após sua morte. Foi ao ar dez meses depois. Clarice morreu em dezembro de 1977, aos 57 anos."

A narrative of the connection of Indigenous Peoples with the Earth and its Spirituality, from the point of view of the indigenous Olinda, who develops a project for environmental recovery in the lands of her people. With the indigenous worldview as a lens, Kaapora and other spiritual characters are the center line of the film's narrative and argument.

Isa, a young artist invited to propose a project for an exhibition, sets out to stage a dramatic adaptation of ‘The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas’, a satirical 19th-century novel by Machado de Assis. The rehearsal is marred by difficulties which the viewer must interpret as being due to the fact that Isa is a woman, young, black, all of the above, or as difficulties anyone would encounter.

First feature film in Alagoas state, Brazil. A girl waits for a streetcar. A gentleman offers her a ride. In front of her home, he invistes her for a walk at sunday.

Inspired by the legend that explains the formation of the majestic Iguazu Falls, this is a film about love, innocence, and the consequences of choices. Long ago, the Iguazu River flowed calmly, without waterfalls. Tarobá, a young indigenous warrior, was in love with Naipi, the beautiful daughter of Chief Igobi. When Naipi is chosen to be offered as a sacrifice to the powerful serpent-god M'boi, Tarobá faces a decision: to give up his love in devotion to the god or to fight to remain by Naipi's side, even if it means facing an eternal destiny.

Mind and matter, separated and then joined together by a terrifying religious experience translated into 7 books: A power from beyond the realm of science and consciousness made into tangible objects for mankind. Who will control this gift that can easily be turned into a curse? Is this going to be the end of a long cycle in human experience?

A teenager suffering from an identity crisis struggles to escape something that haunts her as she tries to find herself in this morally blurred and empty world.

On her first birthday away from home, Antônia talks to her mother about the party she’s throwing with the money from her college aid allowance.

The future of the largest rainforest in the world will be decided in the region of the highway BR-163 where land grabbers are stealing immense areas of public forests. In response to the failure of the Brazilian government to defend these forests, the traditional populations are on the front line against land grabbers to save the Amazon.

Psychiatrist helps young woman who's being chased by underworld people.

In Iquitos, during the era of military dictatorships, a consul must face the arrival of a daughter he does not see in years and the stalking of a military collaborator diplomat who comes to discover his protection to a deserter pilot.

The story of a legendary figure in Brazilian culture, the multifaceted Carlos Imperial. He was a convinced womanizer and cafajeste, he was a director and actor, created TV shows, composed songs like “Vem Quente que Eu Estou Fervendo” and “Mamãe Passou Açúcar em Mim”. In addition, he is responsible for launching big names in Brazilian music, such as Roberto Carlos, Elis Regina and Tim Maia.

In 1968, Tom Zé moved from Bahia to São Paulo, went to the movies, had lunch with Caetano Veloso, and one morning composed the song that would go on to win the main music festival on Brazilian television that year. In "História de Música", the most São Paulo–minded of Bahian artists tells how filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person introduced him to the paulista capital at one of the city's most famous intersections.

Lost film. Based on the novel of the same name by writer José de Alencar.