Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

Miguel uses the nostalgia of records he has made for 30 years to remember an impossible love that marked him forever and to reflect on his own life.

Tired of unrequited love, a man seeks to become the object of his beloved's desire.

A young Brazilian director decides to make his film, but he wants to portray reality, without interference, just by chance.

Investigator Alex is sent to the small town of Santa Brígida to solve the murder of the son of a wealthy family. Upon realizing other similar crimes, his investigation takes a dark turn.

Online horniness in the age of the ballardian flesh supercomputer

The past of a region that grew on the foundations of the faith, through the catechesis of the Jesuits who formed the theocratic kingdom of the Guarani.

Cidade Correria is Brazil pulsating and radically collective. Encounter with the overflowing of everyday urgencies, contradictions and potencies through the voice and birth of Coletivo Bonobando.

The short film tells the story of Negro Facundo Sombra, a Farroupilha hero who is visited by his former commander, General Netto, who asks him to fight in the Paraguayan War. After five years, Sombra returns from the war and tries to return home, which turns out not to be easy.

Apiyemiyekî? addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in 1970s, when during the Brazilian dictatorship indigenous lands in the mid-west were invaded for the construction of the national road BR-174 and the installation of a mining company. Illustrations about the period, created by the indigenous population, including children, reveal a traumatic history, referring us to the present day.

Vitória is a girl with Down Syndrome who takes life as any young person of her age. Between swimming lessons, piano and college, she meets Afonso and the passion is instantaneous. The two will start a love story that no difference can shake.

Bené spent many years looking for his spiritual evolution in a small country town. He has made great progress and is fully integrated into the community, but will be put to the test when he meets Letícia and is brought into the underworld of the big city.

The film tells the story of a small circus from the favelas of the city of João Pessoa - the capital of the state of Paraíba in northeastern Brazil. It follows the lives of its “performers,” who take whatever work they can find during the day and, by night, transform poverty into art. The audience becomes an enthusiastic accomplice in this “illusion.”

“A Holandesinha” follows Luiza Godoi Acosta, a young woman with Down syndrome who dreams of becoming a filmmaker and sets out to create her first short film, "Lágrimas de um Pierrot". The documentary traces every stage of the creative process, revealing her worldview, the challenges she faces, and her triumphs over ableism. Produced in the countryside of Paraná, the film celebrates inclusion and affirms cinema as a space of possibility, belonging, and perseverance.

This film may not give you an answer, but it’ll show you some of mine.

Abandon by her family for being different, Sirena lives alone and hopeless for a future. Until, when she least expects it, she will finally find her perfect match.

'#babynymph' is the definitive portrait of this generation, who believes that happiness only exists if it is shared on the web.

Short documentary about orchids.

Cirio de Nazare, a huge catholic event in Belém, Brazil, narrated as Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

The rescue of a real character from the work of Mario de Andrade. Chico Antônio is a singer and poacher of the interior of Rio Grande do Norte. As he climbed the stems to reach the fruits, he sang and enchanted those who passed by. And Mário de Andrade was one of those spectators, because he loved the warm climate of the equatorial lands

Helena, a forty-year-old woman whom, during a period of crisis, begins to receive anonymous letters from an admirer that watches her daily. Meanwhile, she tries to keep it hidden from her partner, João Pedro. Based on the novel by Czech author Milan Kundera.

A chef doesn't know what to do after losing his sense of smell and taste.

Hell on earth, devilish gods, Lucifer emerge from the bowels of a ship in search of human flesh and blood as food.

To start again, one has to destroy.

He saw his planet invaded and destroyed by Pluto's forces, so he had the chance to take revenge. But now, after years of exploring the galaxy, he has the chance to find a new home. But he is no longer the same.

Luzia consumes all the sweets from the neighboring baker, Carmen. Friendship evolves into a platonic passion, which brings a new flavor to Luzia's bitter days.

For the launch of his new giant horoscope computer, famous astrologer Alex invites to his private island friends representing each of the 12 zodiac signs. During the welcome party, one of the guests is mysteriously murdered. Unable to leave the island, the others witness new deaths, always announced in advance by the computer.

A sophisticated couple opens their marriage to new erotic adventures.

“Two households, both alike in dignity. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene.” Verona is watched over by two gangs that carry on an old rivalry, hatred has become part of the landscape, something inherited, silent, yet always lurking. On a night that seems ordinary, Capulet and Montague lock eyes as if they had always been waiting for each other. The love that is born between them is not a choice, but destiny. Inspired by William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, VERONA offers a contemporary and intense reimagining: two young lovers face not only their families’ disputes but also a fate shaped by invisible and spiritual forces. A love that does not happen within time, but against it.

Every day, at sunrise, the Sítio Porto Alegre School students arrive by boat for another school day. As Professor Rui seeks to catch the attention of the 3rd grade children, new principal Leidi and school boatman Raimundo try to solve the lack of fuel problem caused by the little money sent by the government. These are rainy days in Curralinho township, on Marajó Island, where a school community resists.

"The Blue Butterflies Path" is a contemporary fable in which a maned wolf cub awakens to life in the Brazilian wild plains and goes into a contemplative journey to find the true meaning of love. Among the brutality of a doomed world, a symbolic battle between altruism and selfishness is waged by animals at risk of extinction.

To pursue the woman of dreams, there are lovers capable of delving into a strange journey - through all the genres and styles that cinema has invented to represent the greatest of all arts: the art of passion.

Luiz Roberto Galizia died very young, but he left behind a wealth of personal archives. 30 years later, his niece Ana Galizia plunges into these archives to follow the traces of this uncle she never met.

Marcelo’s mother disappeared when he was 10 years old, leaving him with an endless void. The boy grows into a young man who wanders through cemeteries and takes refuge in invented memories to cope with reality. One day, two mysterious beings cross his path, and Marcelo sets off with them on a journey across the boundaries between the world of the living and the world of the dead.

A short film about boys riding their bicycles in the forest. A beautiful visual poem.