Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

Portuguese television version of the jekyll and hyde story from 1972.

Summer is a race for subsistence in a fictional world, in a world that has ceased to exist. What would we do when all living things around us disappeared? When only two men and one woman are alive?

What happens when two friends meet.

Brazilian criminal takes part in a major train robbery in England and when he finds out his boss plans to betray him, stoles the loot first and hide in Brazil.

A day in the life of singer and songwriter Tim Maia. The Brazilian musical icon discusses themes such as his childhood, love, his musical influences, and life outside of Earth.

After 20 years of exile in Paris, Gustavo returns to his native city São Paulo. Back home, he encounters a place which no longer exists. His old friends and family members have changed, almost beyond recognition. He tries to recapture the past, and make some sense of his life, that of his friends and family, and the present state of his native country.

Live performance of the musical presented in 2016 at Theatro Via Sul in Fortaleza. The story of a young orphan, abandoned by her parents at birth and who is found by Liémin, an immortal prince, who takes her to his palace and gives her a name: Buaméi. Time passes, Buaméi grows up and becomes a beautiful young woman who awakens the love of the immortal, who marries her, swearing eternal love to her. Everything goes well until Buaméi gradually begins to reveal another character and betrays him for the first time.

Two university cleaning staff members make a documentary to prove that nobody can see them... except for Cleiton, the security camera. The experiment soon spirals out of control, revealing much more than they initially imagined...

Prepared by the team of the Program for Training Black Researchers, The video brings together images and voices that talk about the reproductive health of black women, diseases taking into account the racial/ethnic background, habits, customs, the physical and social environment and the inhuman conditions imposed by racism.

Gum is a child born and raised at Gamboa island. He admires his older brother, who works as baggage carrier for tourists. Gum wants to be like him.

Raimundo, film producer, asks financial aid to his friend and producer J.C. to evaluate his own project. J.C. conditions his support to a change in Raimundo's style. Raimundo will have to make a movie aimed to the general audience and following the old producer's book: violence, sex, non-actors and slum. Raimundo does what he says, but an unexpected fact threatens the film's conclusion.

The film seeks to address the risks that Ziraldo's work takes. In a building abandoned ten years ago, the cartoonist's "Santa Ceia", a six-meter-high work painted in 1967, is far from the public and subject to the effects of time

Expedito, after being abandoned by his parents, became Zefa's adopted son until he became a man and started earning his living as an independent fisherman. As soon as he finds out that Zefa is very ill, Expedito runs back home and finds his adoptive mother in agony. At the edge of the bed, a mysterious woman, who claims to be Death, sits.

Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, February 24th 2011. Isabel Burlan da Silva, the director’s mother, is brutally murdered by her partner. “Elegy of a Crime” is the final chapter of Cristiano Burlan’s “Mourning Trilogy, about the tragic family history. Faced with impunity, the film plunges into a dizzying journey to rebuild Isabel's image and life.

The ups and downs in the lives of immigrants from post-war Europe, arriving in Brazil in search of a better future.

A lonely witch and a strange creature come together on a magical night where everything could spiral out of control.

In this silent short film we are shown a day in the life of Gata, a cat who loves to wander and has as her main objective catching a bird. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cQ5kY8iLzw)

It is the first time that Joana, a Brazilian, has visited her friend Kevin in her country, Uganda. They met 20 years ago when they studied together in Germany and have not seen each other for a long time. Now they are close to turning 40 and life is more complex than in youth. This is a film about a friendship between women.

Piove is not a portrait of the forgotten filmmaker Pio Zamuner. It is the establishment of a relationship between two generations of directors. But who directs whom?

A private detective is hired to spy a married woman and ends up falling in love with her.

Five youngsters are on their way back home. They stop the car for no reason and they begin to disappear, one by one. Some of them leave a trail of blood behind. There's a sick maniac around who just wants torture them, killing them and have a little fun with their misery. The camera they bring with them records everything. Until the end...

Based on Luis Fernando Verissimos’s Grande Edgar

An exorcism goes terribly wrong as the entity searches for a stronger host.

A man takes romantic interests to the same spot, creates hopes and dreams on them, but he always seems to end their relationship before things get too deep.

Theatre students André and Gabriel drum up support for resistance against the dismantling of culture policies in Brazil.

In a big city, a solitary computer technician meets an intriguing man on a website, where people share their fantasies.

Castillo, a young stevedore, divides his time between the carpets he has to carry, his family, and a fishing rod. One windy night, he encounters his own brutality on the fishing line.

Monica, a naive schoolgirl from a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, meets Virginia, a former neighbor, now living in Copacabana. Influenced by her, she decides to take on a double life: in the morning she is the suburban girl, in the afternoon she attends a brothel in the South Zone. One day she meets Flávio, a friend and eventual lover of Virginia. Flávio falls in love with the purity of Monica and wants to drive away her friends, for considering Virginia a bad company for her beloved.

Amidst the paralysis of downtown São Paulo, the film follows the journey of 5 characters to the same place - a common meeting point. The voices and experiences of each reveal something greater: a new perspective on life, movement and art.

The existential drama of a young man with his own reality.

Renato Russo - Uma Celebração, or simply A Celebração, is the fourth live album by the Brazilian rock group Legião Urbana, recorded by cable TV channel Multishow, in partnership with EMI. A curiosity of this album is that no song of his was sung by the group, but by other artists, among them Paulo Ricardo, Plebe Rude, Vanessa da Mata, Leela, Chorão and Initial Capital.

A man who lost his taste and his blind wife; an almost deaf girl and her consumerist stepmother; an adult movie actor in love and his completely passionate woman; a sign language teacher and his dilemmas with dumb students. Characters full of love and full of inabilities to cope with their emotional side.

Three women watch over a dead young woman in the early hours of dawn. As they talk, they reflect on their lives and a dream about a mysterious shipwrecked sailor. As the night progresses, the boundaries between reality and fantasy begin to disintegrate.

Lulina draws her greatest fears on the infinite white ground of the Moon. Magically, her illustrations come to life and teach her that her problems are not as monstrous as what her imagination depicted.

This movie is a spoof of "Planet of the Apes" (1968) and follows the storyline of the original step by step - in spite of being a crazy parody of the original film. A group of men lands in a balloon on an area (it's not a planet, it's more like a hill) where talking apes rule and humans are slaves. The apes try to transform the guys in monkeys; a simian princess falls in love with one of them; and so on. This film is one of the several movies made for the popular Brazilian group "Os Trapalhões" - Didi (Renato Aragão), Dedé, Mussum and Zacarias (who at this point hadn't joined the troupe yet) -, many of them inspired by American blockbusters. It's a very fun entertainment, but the humor is very "local" to be understood in other countries. Oh, yeah, the ape "makeup" is terrible, but that's part of the fun. The movie doesn't take itself seriously.

Gorete is an eccentric and famous radio talk show host in a small fictitious town called Pau Torto. She carries a sad past for having been rejected by her father when she was a child for being homosexual, and for this she abandoned her family and her great love. After years away from her origins, she finds out that her father is about to die and returns to her family's farm. There, she discovers that in order to receive her father's inheritance, she is obliged to marry. Thus begins a great dispute in the town as to who will be Gorete's husband.

Luccas desperately wants to help his mother, but he must save his sister Gi from the clutches of a mysterious agency. Together, the three rediscover the power of love and family.

Victor, a young man caring for his younger sister, finds his life unraveling as haunting nightmares of death begin to manifest in reality.

Raised by her mother, Marina always imagined who her father was. After becoming an orphan, she goes on a search for him.