Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

Luccas Neto, his sister Gi and their friends Vitória, Pedro and Jéssi had no idea what was to come on the school trip. When Luccas decides to invade the laboratory of the recently disappeared scientist Honório Flacksman, the group is sucked into a portal that takes them to another dimension – the City of Joy.

In this world of appearances, patients at a weight loss clinic revolt and decide to prove that they can be happy the way they are.

Gal Costa is the greatest singer in Brazil. From João Gilberto in Bahia to Tropicália and the memories of more than 50 years of career, what remains is the trance of his voice and enchantment on show stage.

A lonely sailor sails through tumultuous oceans and storms, searching for a reunion with his beloved. Follow a rigid routine of tasks until unexpected changes in the route alter the destination.

Future memories take shape on an ordinary night in Goiás. In the backyard of her grandmother’s house, Caju, a 10-year-old child, will spend her first sleepless night with the friends of her uncle Tiago, a rebellious young man.

A gang plans to carry out a major heist in a city in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. What they don’t know is that the city is home to the result of a mad scientist’s experiment — a man transformed into a superhero.

Two sisters with very different personalities and who have not spoken with each other for years come together to fulfill their grandfather’s last wish, a kind of wild treasure hunt that leads them to know their true history, helping them to grieve the sufferings of the past and reconnect with themselves and with one another.

Tellerium's founders find themselves in the place where it all began: a secluded oriental restaurant. But as they repeat the tradition and open their fortune cookies, they realize that there is more to what they bargained for.

A naked body and a naked voice before the world.

Isolation colonies kept thousands of leprosy patients inmates. In Brazil, hundreds of them still remain in these institutions where they were compulsorily taken from a policy based on secular prejudice and hygienist methods.

The Waiãpi indigenous people decide to meet and document the Zo’é people. after met, the Zo’é make the visitants know their ancestors' life style; the Waiãpi tell them about the dangers of the white world.

An enchanted journey through three extraordinary houses built by Master José Zanine on the seaside hillside of Joatinga, in Rio de Janeiro, surrounded by a stunning musical score, specially created for the film by maestro Antonio Carlos Jobim.

A vampire pretends to be a hooker on Augusta St., in São Paulo, to feed on her victims, until she comes across a monster that attacks at the same address.

The 2011 Copa do Brasil (officially known as the 2011 Copa Kia do Brasil for sponsorship reasons) was the 23rd edition of the Copa do Brasil, Brazil's national football cup tournament. It began on February 16 and ended on June 8. This edition's champion was Vasco da Gama, with Coritiba ending as runners-up.

Julia needs to finish a painting for an exhibition, but feels suffocated in the apartment she shares with Lia.

Janaina shares the fishing ritual on Itamaracá Island with her mother. They face the pain and beauty of life's cycles with dreams, poetry and music.

In an enchanted world, five little princesses study at a magic school. Despite being diligent, Cindy, Bianca, Hime, Iriá and Zade always get into trouble.

Learn about the trajectory of student leader Marcos Medeiros and learn more about his exile in France and Cuba. In 1968, he joined the counterculture when political activism became an audiovisual expression of intervention in social reality.

After the proclamation of the Republic, a group of fanatics in the sertão dreamed of and fought for the restoration of the Monarchy. At that bloody time, Fabiano, a quiet boy, becomes a cangaceiro and is attacked by the police. Although wounded, he manages to take refuge on a farm where he is hidden in by Lúcia, the farmer's daughter, with whom he falls in love.

A journalist suffers an existential crisis on a sudden holiday.

After the early death of her father, Maria spends a year away from her family. On Christmas Eve, she returns and the reunion with her home, mother, siblings and grandmother rekindles memories and reconnects relationships.

This documentary portrays the trajectory of Brazilian singer and songwriter Marina Lima, an exponent of popular music with a career spanning over 40 years.

Strange events begin to terrorize a young man and his bully brother after they find an old Super 8 camera.

What to do when drugs are found in a classroom of 10-year-old children? A parents' meeting will discuss such a taboo in a very unconventional way: by having a joint.

A completely out-of-sync band loses their bassist just before the biggest opportunity of their lives: the Battle of the Bands. Forced to hold auditions to find a replacement, things only spiral further into chaos.

A woman confined to a colorless room finds herself forced to eat a mysterious meal while being tormented by strange creatures.

The movie "Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed" shows the path of the dramaturgo Augusto Boal at the creation of a theatre that has as objective to transform those who participate it in a spiral of changes, in an oppressing society. Along the trajectory we see Boal's intellectual search and the transformations of the Brazilian society, from the 60s to nowadays. The spectator will meet the numerous uses of the Theatre of the Oppressed around the world (there are groups in 77 countries) and how they manifest in different situations, characterized by the relation between the oppressor and the oppressed, from the biggest to the smallest powers.

The Syndicate of Brazilian Thieves tries to steal the world's greatest diamond, owned by the international star Iraya, who comes to spend the carnival in Rio. Interpol kicks in.

Alex and Dani, two Kelper children living in Stanley, Falkland Islands, skip school to play in the fields, as they usually do every day. One afternoon, when they discover a black, viscous liquid they believe to be oil, their historical differences come to light.

A neighborhood populated by ghosts of a relationship and a tradition.

Daniel (Pedro Garcia), an university student with physical and speech disabilities, finds out that Giulia (Nathalia Garcia), his unrequited love from college, is a sex worker. Then, he hires her services and comes to know the real woman behind his illusion.

In 1850 the Italian dancer Maria Baderna arrives at Brazil, her fame and the scandals she provokes turns her name in a common expression. The film uses passages supposed to be about her to criticize modern Brazil, the dictatorship period and also a homage to filmmakers like Rogério Sganzerla.

Documentary short film covering two survivors of the argentinian military dictatorship.

An engaged couple discovers the corpse of a woman killed by strangulation in the Santo Amaro dam. Inspector Castro and his assistant, Pedro, start the investigation, collecting testimonies, and find a phone number with the name Conceição in the victim's pocket.

Free adaptation of the script by Vladimir Maiakovski. Jomard Muniz de Brito and Pernambuco's cinema.

Brazil, 2030. The sisters Alayr and Sabrina are hearing on the cell radio the judgment that could change the course of a country "without energy". They are surprised by Fátima, the sister who returns from the dead to fraternize on this historic night.

Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music.

Maria is a shortfilm about a woman who was fooled to the western world while she was young and naiv, found what she dreamt of, but lost where she came from. Maria is the return to whatever's left of childhoods pastures.

Camillo Mastrocinque was one of many foreigners who came to Brazil in the 1950s to make films. The director of melodramas during the Italian fascist era directed this film, Areião (Inca Film, 1952), which could have spared Maria Della Costa. The film was renamed La priggione di sabbia to compete at the Venice Film Festival, but was rejected.

Brazilian short film, directed by Julia Murat.

Eduardo wants to become a police reporter. To do so, he unravels a mysterious crime, but fails to get the editor of his newspaper to promote it. He is engaged to Suzy, who works at a nightclub. In charge of interviewing a famous actress, June, gets involved in several embarrassing situations that are created by Suzy and two other reporters, Harry and Steve, who follow June since her arrival in Brazil.

To avoid gossips about his life, a rich man hires a butcher to play his wife's lover. But the two fall in love causing more troubles than expected.