Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

In a building site, a worker agonizes, after an accident, and tells his son about the virtues of honest work, but he's not heard. Turned into a vagabond and having mean people as company, the youth decides to get arrested in order to find a solace against winter. When he finally decides to follow his father advice and get himself a job, he falls under the influence of a policeman, under the false accusation of robbery.

Gatto and Barbot are lifelong companions for more then 40 years and have just moved to a big decayed and abandoned building downtown Rio de Janeiro, where they start to live and promote their dance company rehearsals. The difficulties of everyday life are merged to artistic creation and to their belief in the Orishas gods. Through dance they spread through the city, occupying their territories.

Between a experimental journey in the subconscious, a woman go through her introspective layers and bettle one of her powerfuls and misterious feelings.

A family moves to a farm and witnesses some cattle thefts, then being chased by the criminal responsible for the crimes.

Recorded at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, a small film students crew delves for different people's perspectives about love, if they loved and if it's worth loving.

Xavier decides to shoot with his cell phone his weekend with his best friend Miguel to tell the world and his father, Nicolas, that he might be in love with him. Xavier and Miguel is the sequel of the short film Xavier (2015).

The story takes place in a boarding house, on the verge of bankruptcy, where the most different characters parade: a solitary woman, a womanizer singer, a musical group, an unemployed doctor, a football player and a radio singer, and where everyone gets involved to pay the mortgage that threatened the pension.

The documentary shows how cinema in India is the main source of entertainment and how Bollywood—a centre of film business and of Indian filmography—is one great channel of communication among the different cultures and realities in contemporary India, as well as a real bond for such diversified people.

A look at Brás, one of São Paulo's main Italian districts from its start until the 70s.

Oral memory, artists from the region and expressions of popular culture tell stories about Vila Boa, in Goiás, and its transformations over time.

Reconstruction of the life of Wilsinho, who was a dangerous criminal by the time he was 14. After getting arrested multiple times, he finally was killed by the police at the home of his girlfriend Geni.

A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide. But one of the winners falls for his stepdaughter, and this could change the situation.

In a spectacular performance that finds SEPULTURA accompanied throughout by the French industrial percussion group Les Tambours du Bronx, notorious for beating 225-liter barrels with beech wood bats or even axe handles, the show was recorded from the band’s main stage appearance at the legendary Rock In Rio gala in 2013. Featuring SEPULTURA’s most revered tunes including “Refuse/Resist,” “Territory” and “Roots Bloody Roots,” which sees the audience chanting the entire cut from beginning to end, the sheer volume of sound, percussive enormity and powerful presentation sets this release apart from any previous SEPULTURA concert offering to date. In addition, the DVD includes an exclusive documentary of behind-the-scenes preparation with interviews, rehearsal and sound-check footage and clips of the band just seconds before they hit the stage. - Nuclear Blast

An unusual mix of candomblé, sex and crime. The story unfolds after young Belinda and her friends arrive at a seaside campsite. During an evening stroll, they witness a religious ritual.

The story evolves around four women. The two lead characters, Vera and Gilda, middle-class women, are poor but ambitious. They face the bourgeois characters, Helena and Diva.

Madre brings a poetic and powerful portrait of the story of a Venezuelan refugee mother living in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. Stories converge in a journey marked by sorrow and achievement, homelessness and refuge. The film dives into the nostalgia of the Venezuela that inhabits Ambar’s memories, but which is not the same Venezuela that Brazil knows.

In the musical, Flor and her band travel to the kingdom of Krikoragán on tour, arriving there they find a sad Count who wins Flor's heart, but it is clear that Delfina will not allow Flor's happiness and does everything to prevent this love. Floribella - The Musical, is a "Musical spin-off" of the soap opera Floribella.

35mm, Color, 95min42seg, 2.624m, 24q, Eastmancolor

Ozório is a man who lives alone in an isolated place. He spends his days listening to rock on the radio, while mourning for the loss of his wife. This is until a movement in the sky breaks his loneliness.

Five actors meet in a house on Christmas Eve to make a movie. While waiting to have dinner with someone they don't know or if they're actually going to show up, they reveal secrets and look back on their lives. From this encounter, joys, frustrations, absences and passions surface at the edge of tension.

"High Noon" spoof. Kid Bolha and Ciscocada, two clumsy swindlers, arrive at a violent Old West town called Citydown where, by mistake, one of them is appointed Sheriff. They're intent on facing the dreaded Jesse Gordon, a gunman who kills for pleasure.

In a world in collapse, when the present seems unbearable and the future nonexistent, Anteliza, a young black woman about to leave school, receives a note that leads her down unlikely paths. Between desires, pressures, and possibilities, she will be confronted with a free reality she has always dreamed of. But what is freedom when it demands that you abandon who you are?

"Alábóòjútó Ilé: Festa de Ogum" accompanies the festivities of the Orixá Ogum, which took place between April 21st and 23rd, 2023, at the Mina Ilê Ashé Ogum Sogbô terreiro, in the territory of Liberdade, the largest Urban Quilombo in Brazil, located in the city of São Luís - MA. Among the daily preparations for the festival, the 39th anniversary of the terreiro is also celebrated.

Letícia is a woman who, during the pandemic, had to start working as a CamGirl, in pursuit of her dream of becoming an actress. For one of the clients, a surprise: his old love, Fernando.

The story is about a young man who has the strange habit of waking up in a dead body position and decides to buy a security camera to investigate what happens while he sleeps. What he sees is shocking.

The saci, the end of the world and the hundred years of a filmmaker.

Taquari, a small city in the Rio Grande do Sul, is the birthplace of dictator Arthur da Costa e Silva. In 1976, a bronze bust in his honor was unveiled in Lagoa Armênia, the city's main tourist attraction.

Maicon Douglas is in love with Silmara. One day her mother wakes up in bad health and Maicon needs to urgently take her to the hospital. Maicon calls his friends, everyone boards a Opala Azul Negão to try their luck in a city of contrasts.

In its narrow and winding streets, there are still churches, the old and rich houses in ruins and the houses of the poor, recalling the lavish past of the city of Laranjeiras, in Sergipe.

He's mid-30s going on 79, with scathingly funny views on fatherhood, marriage and society. Let Maurício Meirelles give you a tour of his chaotic mind.

William and Elena are longtime friends who have just left their graduation party. In front of a cozy fireplace, they reflect on the future and direction of their lives.

Between rhymes, beats, and archival footage, three “MCs” talk about their experiences in the rap battles that take place in downtown São Paulo (Brazil) and reflect on the role of these artistic encounters as a form of expression, entertainment and representation.

Five young actors travel to an isolated house, surrounded by forest, for a weekend to shoot a movie. What they still don't know is that this will be the scene of mysterious events. Will they be able to finish the movie before they finish it?

A botanical expedition in Ecuador's Amazon becomes a medium for an indigenous Huaorani community to remember the genocidal colonization it suffered in the 1960s. Meanwhile, a group of ecologists from the capital tries to stop oil exploitation in the last remaining forests where the isolated Huaoranis still live, who to this day refuse to come into contact with civilization.

A downtown square in a Brazilian city is the central stage for a series of close observations of one of the prostitutes working the streets. Apart from their mutual understanding, these women's lives seem doomed to pass by unnoticed. Filmed with cool reserve, Raw leaves the viewer with a sense of poignancy.

Late in the afternoon, a student and a construction worker sit on the edge of the bay and leave traces on the landscape.

Dório faces the end of a life full of errors and regrets, Marco only lives to see where life will lead him to, Almeida wants to take justice into his own hands. They all meet in an unique kind of moment, «the right moment».

A ruthless loan shark doesn't realize the evil that he has done to his own family: his son is waist-deep in resentment, and his daughter- married to an unsuccessful lawyer - ends up prostituting herself.

A family in the interior of Ceará decides to travel in the dead of night after the family patriarch, the city's mayor, is accused of illegal gold mining. In the rush, the middle son is left behind. With the repercussion that the property would be empty, a gang called Bode Caolho organizes to invade the mayor's farm. What they didn't imagine was that a child would be there and would use all the tricks to defend his family's residence.

Luccas and Gi are separated for the first time in a competition at the camp. The girls and boys face off in a Talent Show for a spot in a real pop band. The trolling begins! Who's gonna do it best?

A gaze into the distant. Montevidéu. 2020.

"Ao Vivo em Copacabana" (English: Live in Copacabana) is the first live album by the Brazilian recording artist Claudia Leitte, in her solo career. The DVD was recorded during a single concert performed on February 17, 2008, at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro in front of more than one million people.