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Recently arrived from Recife, bachelor Paulo goes to a party in Rio de Janeiro and there he meets Lucíola, with whom he falls in love. Despite his friend Sá having announced that Lucíola is a prostitute, Paulo begins to experience great love with her, but cannot avoid being jealous.
Released in 2008, this documentary provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Monte's creative process and the making of her albums "Universo ao Meu Redor" and "Infinito Particular." The film seamlessly blends studio recordings, live performances, and candid moments, showcasing Monte's artistic evolution and her profound connection with Brazilian musical traditions.
The Ant and the Cicada lived their almost opposite lives. The Ant had to work hard during spring, summer and fall, while the Cicada just hummed and rested, slept and had fun. When the winter came, they were able to learn from their differences and discover the value of friendship, and had a real life lesson.
When Mariana connects the Military Dictatorship's violent legacy as the structure behind Brazilian families, she embarks on an introspective journey to deconstruct her family life growing up in Brazil.
São Paulo is a complex city. So complex, that when stories based on true elements mix with fiction, it's hard to know which is which.
During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns to the farm. The film is divided in five short horror stories.
Evelin, 13, is pregnant from a 22-year-old who recently left the drug trade. Luana, 15 years old, declares that she planned her pregnancy, as she wanted to have a child of her own. Edilene, 14 years old, is expecting Alex's child, who also got her neighbor Joice pregnant. Over the course of a year, the daily lives of these three young women are followed.
Screams of a previous discussion echo in a silent room while two women try avoid demonstrating their real and visceral emotions.
On the night of January 8th, in Brasilia, some people need to take refuge inside the place that is about to be attacked by a horde that lives a parallel reality and is ready to destroy everything in its path.
The changes in Brazilian money bills and how these changes affected the economy and society.
A film from the skater world of São Paulo, where it is women who call the shots. Bagdá is surrounded by self-confident role models in her family. However, outside on the streets, in the venues and clubs, the old machismo continues to dominate. Bagdá and her fellow comrades-in-arms confront it defiantly.
Two censors from the military dictatorship watch and discuss a film at work.
Raquel is a married and successful woman trying to become pregnant without success. When she's returning from a party she meets a man who changes her destiny.
A college experimental short movie about two classmates that, after matching on a dating app, find out they both love true crime stories and decide to go on a date to watch documentaries. The problem is that they don't know each other's intentions.
A documentary by Eduardo Coutinho about a hired-gun from Brazil's Northeast.
"Eu sou O Rio", debut album by the band Black Future, appeared on all lists of the best releases of the year it was released, in 1988. A critical success, the band presented a sound that mixed post-punk with "malandragem carioca", but almost no one heard it. To date, there has never been a reissue and is not even available on streaming services. With interviews carried out in celebration of the twenty years since the release of this obscure success, its former members and people close to them break down the history of the band and the album.
A documentary about climate change in Brazil, especially at Atafona Beach (in the Campos de Goytacazes region), which is being swallowed up by the sea. Narrated by Sonia Guajajara and Sidarta Ribeiro, the film deals with the genocide of the native people of Goytacazes.
A documentary film about the history of Paraíban cinema.
A documentary made in Mexico City about a singular character and her feelings about sex and religion.
The journey, the light, and the end. After a trip, light assumes an ever more abstract quality within digital images that flow through Brasília's Torre de TV Digital.
Eneida, 83 years old, makes a journey into her past, in search of her firstborn daughter, whom she has not seen for over two decades.
A road trip of sorts between the Amazon forest in Brazil and the controlled nature of Belgium.
Sweet Karolynne tells the tale of the little one who lends her name to the title of the film, her relationship with the pet rooster Jarbas, the singer Elvis Presley and her family.
Somewhere in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas (Álvaro Guimarães) decides to increase his patrimony even further by exploiting ores. To do this, he tries to appropriate the small site of Antônio Vaqueiro (José Marinho). Desperate, Antônio rushes to the aid of the gypsy healer Maria dos Remédios (Luiza Maranhão) and the poet and dreamer Tião Poeta (Lenicio Queirogo) to face the greed of Elói.
Arlindo works delivering the clothes that his wife washes. During a working day, he finds a customer's cat, who offers a reward to whoever returns it. To deliver the animal, he ends up going through a lot of confusion.
Vera and Alda are neighbors and work at the same school: Vera is a teacher, Alda a cleaner. The link between them is Joana, Alda’s granddaughter and Vera’s student. Vera is trapped in a violent relationship with her boyfriend. Alda, for her part, begins studying again and soon realizes she’s also in an abusive relationship: her son, Dinho, won’t let her focus on herself and insists that she take care of his daughter, Joana. Vera and Alda find in their friendship a safe space to share their pain and desires, slowly shifting the power dynamics at home and at work, but they also have to face new risks.
A poetic and oneiric film that unites fantasy to approach the trajectory of Antonio, a young man in a continuous process of transformation and inner re-elaboration. Inspired by the life story of Buddha.
A female version of the brazilian northeastern tradition of hitmen, focusing on a pistolwoman that seeks revenge for a trauma suffered by her sister and her.
When he is attacked by the feeling of being unwell, Wagner finds himself in trouble and urgently needs to change his habits with the help of a personal trainer.
Brazil's love motels are a sexual haven where fantasy becomes reality. When the filmmaker's own date never shows up, she gets a fresh idea for a film instead. The result is a kaleidoscopic insight into a parallel world of human desire.
An alchemist musician. A couple in a war trench. In an apocalyptic future, these three characters will be meet to discover the origins of hatred and the art.
The love story of a couple, from youth to old age.
The musical special shows an intimate and casual version of Marisa Monte, which features some tracks from the album “Portas”, her latest release.
This is the story of Dona Virginia, an elderly woman who awaits the expropriation of her house. Year after year, the government threatens to destroy the place, her past and her memories.
You can't live someone else's life. Four Seasons. Four stories. Four couples. Four wishes entangled. A bathroom flirtation consumes itself in its own homophobia. A hooker surrenders to her lover. Blackmail and queer romance walk together For a dangerous trail. Madness dominates a woman's libido.
Multitalented performer Clarice Falcão packs a year of ideas into one special with songs, skits and jokes dedicated to each month on the calendar.
A documentary about the life of Brazilian footballer Ademir de Guia (o Divino) who played his whole professional career for Palmeiras.
The loves and life of a beautiful Brazilian Indian woman.
Curtis, an American looking for an escape to a foreign land, joins his estranged Brazilian biologist brother Francis on a spontaneous journey to find a rare jungle beetle in the Amazon. While hiking, Curtis is bitten by a snake. As he enters a venom induced hallucinogenic dream the two brothers are captured as slaves by a fantasy tribe of Amazonian women, and given to the tribal queen. With the aid of another slave, Curtis must plot a rescue of Francis and their escape, unless he finds his new situation better than the life he left behind.