Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

An audiovisual "Self-portrait", the author's attempt to explore his own mind and reflect how he experiences his particular world.

An abstract journey of a boy facing the representation of people we all have, or have crossed paths with, in our lives.

Documentary on ethnic relations in Brazil.

In 1985, a daring worker of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Brazil denounced a massacre in the lawless region of Corumbiara. The investigations turned to a series of indigenous genocides in the area. Spanning 20 years, the film shows the search for proof and the version of the survivors, when they were finally found, hiding in the forest, terrified of white men.

Documentary about a group of children who live on the streets of São Paulo and come together to survive the harsh reality of hunger, violence and oppression.

A man cheats on his wife with a 22-year-old girl, before New Year's Eve.

Meeting the girl from your school in a record store, going to her house and losing your virginity? Everyone went through something similar in adolescence... Didn't you? Would it be because you're not Jack White?

The trajectory of the Brazilian punk band Plebe Rude is told in an acid and good-humored tone. Through internal dialogues, the members and contemporary characters of the phonographic industry expose differences, exorcise hurts and analyze how changes in the Brazilian scenario in recent years. The group draws a musical panorama from the events of the 70s and 80s, the group's most successful period alongside the biggest names in national rock.

A short psychological horror movie that dives into inner fear, isolation, and a twisted sense of reality

Julia, Paulinho and Duda are best friends experiencing adolescence. Used to playing RPG together and facing different worlds in the game, one day they find a mysterious book that takes them to truly enter other realities. In the midst of all these adventures, they confront their convictions and fears and understand themselves better.

Lionel Richie - The Outrageous Tour Live is a UK VHS release by The Video Collection on 5th October 1987, which got re-released in the UK by Music Club and Video Collection International Ltd on 4th September 1989. Captured live at The Ahoy-Rotterdam-Holland during his 1987 European tour, Lionel Richie delivers an 'outrageous' performance filled with surprises: a moveable stage, his band members flying above his head and a piano that plays itself. But these effects are just icing on the cake, merely enhancing his fine performance.

When humans become animals and animals become humans.

The recovery of family videos is the resumption of a path: the massification of VHS brought new levels to family recordings. With the incorporation of sound, home videos gave way to commentaries, speeches and the filtering of sounds, giving rise to a documentation of the sounds of each era. In this first-person film, Juliana Antunes revisits, reframes and recombines the discordances between norm and desire in the memories of an LGBT girl in a Brazilian suburb.

João, mounted on his horse Cruzeiro, and in the company of a wanderer named Tahiel, enters a large city in northeastern Brazil to face the one who took his lands and ended up with his family.

João, a middle-class filmmaker, goes through a series of encounters with people like his long-time friend Irene; his boyfriend Álvaro; Matias, a young man he meets in the subway and has a sexual experience with, among others, some acquainted, others unknown. These encounters affect him and slowly begin to reveal a play of time frames which blends together life and creative process, present and memory.

In the middle of his crazy day, a man tries to remember if he closed a window at home.

In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arrests, killings, kidnappings. The film Seventy rejoins 18 characters of this story, forty years later. The film mixes the excitement of revisiting the past with a vision, sometimes even good humored of everything they lived. Many years afterwards they relive their experience of pain, violence and survival, of rebuilding their own story and continuing to believe in the possibility of improving the world.

Unhappy with what he'd got from life, Pedro Diabo becomes a dread outlaw, whom the police is looking for. In his life of crime, he has the love and support of a strange woman, Rosa Meia-Noite, chorus girl who likes to wear rich costumes in Carnival Balls.

The attention was not focused on the tourist attractions, but rather on the graffiti.

A night of cruising.

Drama short film from Brazil

Ever since the loss of her mother, Talita is always distracted. Her friend Valéria is in charge of household chores. Their daily routine is a mix of sweetness and sadness, as they have a secret that will determine their fate.

Christopher is going through a difficult period in his life after the death of his brother, George. However, when he receives a letter from a friend in London, he remembers last Christmas and the night that changed his entire life forever.

Night falls and the noisy and chaotic population of the city of Rio de Janeiro goes to their homes, preparing for a new day. But while most people sleep, how does the city function? Early morning seems, to unaccustomed eyes, something lonely and even scary. What is life like, then, for those who work and live while the city sleeps?

Between 2017 and 2018, a landmark exhibition brought together 120 Latin American women artists who produced pioneering works between the 1960s and 1980s. This is how "Radical Women" revealed names that were recognized and celebrated for the first time, opening a new chapter in the history of 20th-century art.

Who is Gurcius Gewdner?

Curt Nimuendajú is a German ethnologist who lived in Brazil from 1903 until his death. In addition to having studied and defended the rights of about 50 indigenous peoples, he lived as one of them in each tribe. Nimuendajú died in 1945, in the Amazon, under unknown circumstances.

A documentary film following the celebrated Brazilian artist Saint Clair Cemin over the last five years. Directed by Svetlana Cemin the film represents an intimate portrait of the artist and a deep reflection on the sculptor's journey to make his masterpiece, Psyche, a marble boat. This experimental documentary reflects the making process of Psyche from the embryonic stage in his studio in Brooklyn, through the finishing touches in China, and to its final destination in Cleveland, Ohio.

Echoes from the Cinema Novo, stylized in photographic compositional experiments and montage, in the encounter of a migrant woman with a man carrying a rifle in the streets of the big city.

In a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets and who are living this day like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her in a circular time that haunts and disorients.

After Eric Dravens and his fiancee, Shelly Webster, get brutally murdered by gangsters, Eric returns as Death's emissary to avenge his beloved and himself.

Pedro is a teenager who sells drinks in the traffic on a highway that brings thousands of people to the coast during the summer. Driven by curiosity and desire, he embarks on an adventure that transforms him profoundly.

Old man Cipriano is dead. His body, however, remains among the living due to a pact with Death. The pact has come to an end. In this film, it is Cipriano's soul that narrates the last events, and this narrative establishes an arc constructed in the director's own study with the raw material filmed in S-16mm, after more than 20 years of filming. Life and death. Tales, dreams and religions. A journey into the Latin American imagination through a long pilgrimage through the backlands of Piauí.

Follows four women of the estimated 40,000 displaced people moved from the banks of the Xingu River in the Amazon Basin to make space for construction of one of the world's largest dams, the Belo Monte.

A documentary that shows the Brazilian national football team's time in Haiti while the country is facing a civil war.

Machado de Assis, the most famous Brazilian writer, is transported, without further explanation, to current times. Received with skepticism by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, where he will be questioned by immortal colleagues who suspect they are dealing with an imposter, Machado defends himself vehemently. Is he the true Immortal, founder of the Academy?

"I walk for mystery, I live for mystery ... Our body is a machine, or does it take care of it or do you know it?" Between the memories of the nightclub and reports of daily resistance: Tikal dances and defies standards.

It's election time for the student body. Four groups of students, with differing opinions and views of the world, create proposals, debate campaign strategies, and strive for improvements in school.