Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

Adaptation of the angelic war in 11+11+1 segments.

"O Filho Único do Pai" tells the story of Lucas, a frustrated logistics analyst who tries to pull himself together after being betrayed by his fiancee. And when everything looked bad enough, Antônio, his father, an eccentric retired actor, reappears after a long time and forces his son to make decisions that will change the direction of his life.

Jammed in a job they loathe and exhausted by all the social impositions that surround them, Bárbara and Luiz, in their twenties, decide to leave together for a friend's house seeking for emotional refuge. Inside the place, always full with extravagant parties, both externalize all their cravings and repressed desires.

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.

A black earphone searches for his place in the world by boarding different buses at a station, facing realities that make it question his identity and future.

Alice (Carolina Zanella) is an award-winning screenwriter, but her job demands much more from her than she imagines. Frustrated at not being able to come up with an innovative story, she asks for help from two friends who are actors, Jorge (Guttho Lekan) and Júlia (Rebeca Knopf). However, their strong personalities result in more problems. With existential crisis and depression, she needs to consult with her psychologist Gustavo (Vinicius Daza), who advises her to have more experiences than she has already had. With the great problems that this advice brings her, she discovers that the greatest story was right in front of her.

Two friends who like each other end up drifting apart because of one’s intense passion. Lucas finds himself alone without his best friend by his side, which leads him to take somewhat impulsive actions.

Partner of Aldir Blanc and creator of the Samba do Trabalhador, Moacyr Luz is followed by Tarsilla Alves' cameras for a week. A seasoned bohemian, we follow Moacyr's wanderings, filled with plenty of booze, gatherings with friends, and beautiful sambas that qualify him to be called the "ambassador" of the capital of Rio de Janeiro.

Denise, Hannah and Leticia are three ordinary women with extraordinary stories to tell. As transgender people, they talk about the challenges of finding their true identities within an intolerant and prejudiced society.

In a future not so distant, humanity has almost been extinguished by vampires. The dark of night is deadly and, while trying to survive it, a man finds a chance to redeem himself.

While caring for her mother with Alzheimer's, Manuela discovers a secret world hidden in the city's cracks, where invisible creatures feed on the pain of lost memories. Guided by Carlos, she faces the Unlembrins to recover not only a prescription but also a fragment of her mother's memory.

A Video Essay on the work of director Franz Zwartjes.

When humans become animals and animals become humans.

Sara, a theater aficionado, begins to experience episodes of mental confusion. At this difficult stage in her life, she resorts to memories of the plays she has seen.

This movie marks Eunice Gutman's directorial debut, a deeply human documentary about adult literacy in rural Rio de Janeiro. Produced within the scope of MOBRAL, the film closely follows the journey of individuals, especially special women, who, upon learning to read and write, find new meaning in their lives.

The story of the relationship between Military Police commander Domingos Macedo and his children over three decades. Raised in a toxic family environment, the children struggle to survive the rigid rule of a man forged by the brutality of the Military Police. Flávia learns early on that defending herself is an act of rebellion and transforms fear into strength, until she manages, in her own way and by her own rules, to challenge her father's power on the Andaraí favela (community).

Through cinema, it is possible to recognize situations and think about them theoretically from other perspectives. Inspired by the discussion of the classic text by Mariza Peirano. The film uses excerpts from Brazilian filmography to reflect anthropological concepts such as culture, politics, ethnographic field and identity.

In a traditional community high in the Peruvian Andes, a tender relationship between two teenage boys, Fausto and Chaska, leads to a violent confrontation with Fausto's macho father at the annual Takanakuy Festival.

Delirium of the hunger of a man who incorporates, in the course of an ancestral ritual, the demons of a sick country. Home and man become living testimonies of history. Sanctuary or headquarters, the transformations affect everything around and provoke the fury of the sky.​

In search of information about his mother's student past, Marcos makes discoveries that strongly change his perception about her.

Maria takes on the responsibility of caring for her elderly mother, Conceição. During dinner, Conceição refuses to eat, causing Maria to gradually lose her patience and leading to an argument between the two.

The great voyages to the "New World" were seen as expanding the frontiers of the visible and displacing those of the invisible, therefore maps from that time render the real and imaginary. The film follows a voyage of the Brazilian Military in search of an imaginary island with the same name as their country. In the myth from 1483 Brazil, or Hy-Brazil, is known to exist to the west of Ireland and above the Fortunate Islands. Visão do Paraíso is an examination of the capacity of the human imagination and computer simulations to construct environments. Amidst the fine threshold of the real, simulated, and imagined, the film analyzes the contemporary ideas of virtual reality and their ambition to expand the frontiers of the physical world into a "New World".

Reconstruction of the historical episode of the Inconfidência Mineira (Minas Conspiracy).

A humorous story about a rooster who sang at the time he wanted.

Ilza leaves home to buy tomatoes. Along the way, an unexpected loss sets her on a journey through the streets, in search of something she believes she has lost forever.

On a farm frozen in time, a man is haunted by the inexplicable connection to his truck, triggering supernatural events that challenge the line between dreams and reality.

With his emotional state shaken and with no expectation of improvement, faced with the disastrous new generation of students that emerged from the 2000s onwards, Professor Roberto finds his only refuge on full moon nights.

In Campina Grande, in Paraíba, a hamster named Borges lives with his owner, Napoleão (Everaldo Pontes). Blind, he is a fan of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges – origin of the name of the pet – and depends on acquaintances to survive. Yara (Verônica Cavalcanti), a girl who cleans the house, Romão (Fabiano Raposo), a boy who does little service, and Vladimir (Paulo Philippe) are his helpers and plan the robbery of a rare and unpublished work by Borges, which Napoleon says save.

Jonas Aquino is a 16-year-old boy who is unhappy for not being popular on social networking websites. Until his virtual profile comes to life and becomes everything Jonas has always dreamed of: a good-looking guy with several friends and 'likes.

A young man goes to the square to wait for his friends. While he waits, a drug dealer shows up to interrogate him.

In 1940s Amazonia, a Mexican man in search of himself and a Bolivian woman with dreams of a brighter future struggle to build a family, confronting the challenges of their diverse pasts and the turbulent history of the 20th century.

A conversation about time: The aging of the black gay man portrayed by Márcio Januário from his homonymous show "The Love Songs of an Old Gay Man".