Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

In the near future, Clarice is a young woman who works as an video editor at a company that records dreams. During her work she meets Maria, a photographer who is temporarily in the city, and is surprised to realize that both had the same dream that night. They enjoy their short time together immersing themselves in two worlds, between shared dreams and reality.

Video presentation of the Vito Giannotti Occupation, located in the port area of Rio de Janeiro. This video was produced as part of the Luta Pela Moradia No Centro Da Cidade project, a 4-year ethnographic research project comparing different models of social housing in the central region of Rio de Janeiro. It involves a team of 8 international researchers from 3 universities: Syracuse University (New York), King's College (London) and Universidade Federal Fluminense (Rio de Janeiro).

Abstract study of two couples in the logic of a love breakup

It portrays a pioneering and risky work carried out in a small Xinane base, by FUNAI, near Parallel 10º South, west of Acre, on the border with Peru. In simple installations, in the middle of the jungle, the sertanista José Carlos Meirelles carries out the difficult mission of protecting the isolated Indians of the region, with the help of anthropologist Terri Aquino. With few resources, specialists perform their tasks tirelessly. In addition to carrying out a permanent negotiation with the riverside populations in the area, they also deal with the confrontation with traffickers and squatters who try to invade it.

A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".

Documentary and staged scenes mix in this very personal story of a family in the suburbs of Rio, through the memories of a backyard, a giant tree, and the woman who planted it.

A man chilling on his backyard just needs to check on something before he... does something.

The series takes place seven years at the head of the Traditional Monica Gang, serving as a conception of the characters' future.

A film on the feud between samba songwriters Noel Rosa and Wilson Batista.

In 2008, Gretchen divided her twerking between the stage and the podium. The singer and dancer – also known as the "Booty Queen" – traveled through villages in the northeast of Brazil, making a living as an artist in local circuses and making noise in her campaign for mayor of Itamaracá Island, in Pernambuco. From circus to circus, the film records the performer's experiences to face her political opponents and her new audience, the electorate.

A dialogue between the auteur's memories and the images he shot and kept during his long film career - sketches of live that were never shown, never seen, never edited.

A story about a strange island and its citizens with concrete heads, and a landfill where they believed they could rid themselves of their troubles—until a small clay carranca appears. A surreal tale about how every action has consequences.

Directed by Martin Ainstein as part of the "Destino Futebol" series, the documentary, produced by ESPN Films, tells the moving story of former player and doctor Sócrates, who passed away on December 4, 2011. The documentary features testimonies from members of the former Corinthians player's family, including his brothers, among them the former player Raí, his mother, and his son Gustavo. Journalists Juca Kfouri, José Trajano, and Xico Sá are also interviewed, as well as musician Toquinho and former Corinthians and Brazilian national team teammates such as Zico and Wladimir. The production showcases Sócrates' time studying medicine in Ribeirão, his journey through the teams Botafogo de Ribeirão Preto, Corinthians, Fiorentina, Flamengo, and, of course, the national team. It's a great story told by people who knew the idol, remembering key moments of Sócrates' career as a doctor, player, musician, and writer.

Domitila is a girl who has to deal with the secrets of her adoptive parents in the midst of the loneliness of her new home.

Rose is committed to ensure Pedro a better future than a life confined between the dirty streets of the neighborhood and the asphalt of the city, when an unexpected event will make her connect with her son's daily adventures.

The truths and consequences of the actions of two siblings.

After a presidential decree that shuts off the Internet connection nationwide, two neighbours who have never met before but have an online relationship decide to leave the big city and try out a living in the real world.

With script and direction by Pablo Villaça and starring the comedian Geraldo Magela, Morte Cega has as main character a failed filmmaker named Francis (Maurício Canguçu, producer and one of the main actors of the theatrical success "Believe, a Spirit Downloaded Me"). One night, Francis has a frightening dream about Magela, known throughout the country for playing the character O Ceguinho. Determined to make a short film based on this dream, Francis uses his producer friend, Martinho (Carlos Magno Ribeiro, who acted in Villaça's first short, A_ética), to get to the comedian. From then on, the meeting brings unexpected results for everyone involved.

After being abandoned by the man she loves, Amianto isolates herself in a world of fantasy and delusions. Her only friend is Blanche, a dead girl who protects her from beyond. Mixing naivety and melancholy, Amianto tries to reconnect with the real world.

A poor woman passes herself as singer that just arrives from Frances and becames a sensation on Rio de Janeiro's high society.

When the night of an upper-class couple is interrupted by a disturbing noise coming from the neighbor, the social dilemmas and their own disagreements about how to react become a somber reflection of themselves.

Miami-Cuba is an audiovisual immersion through the Historic Center of João Pessoa, with brief trips to symbolic places along its shore. In particular, the recently verticalized Altiplano district, where his current urban development project seems to be heading. Its cinematographic device is the occupation of an apartment in the 18th floor building, the first skyscraper and initial landmark of modernization in the capital. Work that also configures a type of sentinel in this central region of the city, listed as a historical heritage shortly after its construction. A performative documentary that walks with pre-researched characters and others who were found in the journey of recordings… Expressive people from the city, known and/or anonymous, who ramble about their urban experiences, resisting, ways of living and living, existing .

Three people hide in a living room, until the telephone rings

Augusto receives a letter informing the murder of his brother. Coming back to a strange city, he will have a long night a head.

Cinderella spoof. During the carnival, in Rio de Janeiro, rich farmer meets lovely girl in a ball, but at midnight she flees, leaving behind her breechcloth, part of her costume. The man in love tries to find her all around town.

Follows Brazilian sailor Tamara Klink’s solitary journey across the Arctic.

During the 1960s, between nightclubs in the South Zone and dances in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, a musical rhythm known as sambalanço emerged, mixing jazz, samba and Latin music.

After being the victim of a violent eviction in the Parque Oeste neighborhood, in Goiânia, a woman rebuilds her life based on the struggle for housing.

Paulo and Judite, a gay man and a lesbian, live together. One night, watching a romantic movie, they complain over feeling lonely, but at least they have one another. Paulo states that Judite is the love of his life. Judite answers that Paulo would be the love of her life, if he were a woman. This conversation sparks up an idea in Judite’s mind, and she starts introducing estrogen – a feminizing hormone – in Paulo’s food.

MAYA is a mystical thriller, telling the story of the presumed relationship between Icaro and Adriana, since the moment they met until the day when she disappears and cease existing.

Rutger is an ET with the mission of spending 72 hours on Earth to understand human behavior. As an undercover, he pretends to be a documentarist and chooses the city of Rio de Janeiro to begin his research.

Catarina is a researcher in quantum physics. She studies the sound spaces hidden in the variations of light. By immersing herself in the images she distorts, Catarina discovers a new form of sound spectrum, which seems to open an access to another temporality.

Finis Hominis sets out to right wrongs, expose corruption and end the social unrest that he sees in the world.

High Court judge returns to the small town where he was born, bringing along his beautiful and young wife. The local men get aroused and start looking for young lovers at the local bordello. Their wives even make promises and novenas asking the disappearance of the new couple. One day, the judge dies, leaving his wife unsatisfied. The corpse, as if wanting revenge, keeps an erection on.

No Rio de Janeiro, a 13 km do Cristo Redentor, dois portugueses aventuraram-se na mais temida favela do Brasil, onde moram mais de 300.000 pessoas - o Complexo do Alemão. Em 2007, no período de maior tensão e violência no Rio de Janeiro, viveram a maior operação policial já realizada no estado, sentiram na pele como é a vida de um simples morador. O filme retrata este perigoso e complexo mundo, um universo paralelo inserido dentro de uma ordem maior, um mundo à parte, que segue uma ordem diferente da ordem global.

A documentary that chronicles the political trajectory of former president Michel Temer (MDB) during the 963 days he was in charge of the Planalto Palace.

There are many ways to overcome the losses and drop-outs of childhood. Three boys reinvent the concept of family to face the traumas of their lives.

A boy meets God and takes his chance to ask for the truth about life itself.

The city and its parking lots.

Young executive woman returns to small town of Dois Córregos and remembers the time, in the late 1960s, when she met her uncle there, a man who was running away from the military dictatorship ruling Brazil at the time.