Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

The members of Jota Quest recall their beginnings in Belo Horizonte, the city where the band used to meet, compose their first melodies, and create fake managers to protect the "Funk disco soul" band who refused to sing covers. After becoming one of Brazil's most beloved band, they visit some iconic places in their career.

A Cor que Caiu do Espaço (2016) is freely based on the text "The Color Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft. Filmed as if it were a delirious nightmare, Color that Fell from Space is a short with independent production of Baiestorf and Silvia Prado that integrated the collective long "13 Stories Strangers". Experimentalism.

A quasi-ordinary day of a young man living in the streets of São Paulo, Brazil.

Silva returns to his hometown on the outskirts of town after spending a few years elsewhere. He wants to apologize to Maria, his ex-girlfriend. But the young man also wants forgiveness from his best friend, who swore to kill him if he returned.

Wandering through a dead city, Angelique is stricken with visions and gets to know the story of a cruel vampiress who does not know love, of a ritual that imprisons Satan worshipers in a death cycle, of a witch looking for the perfect recipe and of a passion that survives beyond the grave. In Angelique's ears, only the music of the gothic inflows - no voice can rise above it.

A folk festival in the city of Teresina in Piauí, is portrayed with all the elegance in the lens of photographer Pedrinho de Moraes and filmmaker Paulo Cezar Saraceni. A dance of colors, folklore and the beautiful nature of the region.

Meet a Brazilian lady who uses marijuana for more than thirty years and shares her experiences with the drug.

In search of her lost doll, Sophia enters a parallel world full of questions and reflections.

Knowing where you come from is just as important as knowing where you are going. The memories and reflections of Otávio Sabino, a former employee of the Railway Network, through the eyes of Mery Lemos, his daughter and the film's director. The world seen from the window of a train in the Mata Norte region of Pernambuco, memory, nostalgia, rust, sounds, gears, critical reflection, music and poetry come together.

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.

A young woman lives a life of romantic attempts that always go wrong, never finding her perfect partner. That's when Bianca meets and starts an affair with her neighbor, Marcelo, an older and married man. The case causes the young woman to change not only her life, but of many around her.

A group of friends got together to make a short film as a school project.

When a greedy villain sets his eyes on Grandma's farm, it is up to Luccas and Gi to set things right as they embark on a secret treasure hunt.

The findings of Danish paleontologist Peter Lund. The landscape of the region of Lagoa Santa, the men, the houses and the animals. Some of the caves from where Lund collected the remains of prehistoric animals and humans. Some fossils from the caves of the Lagoa Santa region. The fossils of the Lund room in the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro.

The film follows the Miss contest season in Brasilia and satellite cities of the Federal District in the year 2010, revealing the contradictions behind the catwalks of fashion.

The eccentric members of a wealthy Brazilian family each go through personal torment, debauchery and intense guilt. The father has made a fortune in the slaughterhouse business and ignores the feelings of his wife and his workers. When the mother threatens to leave, the father begs for her to stay and continue the hollow charade of their marriage for the sake of social appearances.

This documentary takes us on a ride through Marginal Tietê, an important avenue in São Paulo, Brazil, then recently opened to the public. The places it crosses and the people living nearby force the viewer to think about the core of this big city.

"No País das Amazonas" begins showing the indigenous people of Amazonas. Then, it presents the economical activities showing each step in the production line of the incipient local industries, inclusive with the exit of workers from a factory in the end of the working period. The documentary shows also the boats on the river, the fishing of manatee ("peixe-boi") and preparation of the flesh with salt, the rubber trees, the extraction and each step of the preparation until the rubber mattress is ready to be exported, the Brazilian chestnuts, guaraná and smoke and the insects.

Few artists can claim the historical significance of Jocy de Oliveira. A pioneer of electronic music in Brazil — carrying a weight comparable to such towering figures as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen — she was also a brilliant pianist, performing as a soloist under the direction of Igor Stravinsky.

Diego and Luana are two best friends trying to make it into the musical theater world but it’s not as easy as they thought it would be. Now they need to challenge themselves and each other to guarantee that they’re not giving up onto their dreams.

Guilherme is struggling to find a new job and, within the movies, he finds the opportunity to fly.

When contractors in Rio de Janeiro dig too deep, they awake Murphy, who was burried alive many years ago. Now, his ghost wanders the streets of the Marvellous City.

Documentary explores the life stages of different people.

The rebel group SUB v2.7 kidnaps the greatest politician in the state of Bahia and requests the footage,recorded by them, to be shown on the local news of his own TV channel.

Julia is a successful journalist who lives in a comfortable apartment in São Paulo with her husband, a surgeon, and their young son. At first glance, her life seems perfect—but she hides a secret: a compulsion for risky sex. When her husband suggests the family move to a smaller city, Julia sees the move as a chance to leave behind her self-destructive behavior and become the wife and mother she always wanted to be. However, as the moving date approaches, her compulsion intensifies, threatening to expose her secrets and jeopardize her family and emotional stability.

In a futuristic Salvador, Kinho is disappointed when his father can't take him to the beach. But the next day, he surprises him. Although Kinho notices something different in his father's behavior, he cherishes the precious time spent with him.

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Joss Stone takes to the Sunset Stage during the Rock In Rio festival 2011. Joss sings her hits, delivers an unforgettable performance and even changes the setlist due to crowd's request!!

Young Deisy (Ana Letícia) dreams of moving to bustling Belém, but instead she lives on Combu Island, across the river, cut off from the city she often admires from afar. Her mother (Dira Paes), aware of her daughter’s longing, wants to help her achieve it — though her husband (Adriano Barroso) is firmly against the idea. Together, mother and daughter hatch a plan to make the dream a reality.

Denise, Dilma and Teresinha are three women with visual impairment who live in Teresina. Each one with a type of impairment, they share their experiences, challenges and hopes as women who feel the world beyond what their eyes can see.

Working as a TV host of an important political campaign for mayor, Luisa suffers with the professional relations with her co-workers. It’s the last week before the first round of local elections and Luisa, away from her hometown and family, discovers a serious scandal that could jeopardize the entire election. Not only must she now decide her fate, but that of an entire city.

Under the blinding sun Clara struggles to see her family and the reality that surrounds her.

From the accounts of lesbian artists and militants, frequenters of Ferro's Bar, we are led to an episode central to the formation of the Brazilian lesbian movement in the early 1980s, the "uprising of Ferro's Bar". The film shows how lesbians are no longer a figure found only at night, inside apartments, and become a political subject that rises up against censorship of one of the lesbian periodicals with the largest circulation in the 1980s, "ChanacomChana". Ferro's Bar represents a space for the political-affective memory of its frequenters and a way of updating this collective and political history that is still pulsating.

Reconstitution, through photos, films and texts, of the arrival in Brazil of the poet Cendrars, in 1924. Tributes received, visits throughout the country and the desire to make a "100 percent Brazilian film". Testimonials from figures who lived with the intensity of the core of modernist artists: Tarcila do Amaral, Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade and Di Cavalcanti. Scenes from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, São Martinho Farm and the 1924 Revolution. Scenes from the movie LES HEURES CHAUDES DE MONTPARNASSE. Reference to Aleijadinho and Febrônio Indio do Brasil.

Teobaldo is a divorced elderly person who lives with his caregiver, Magda. After receiving worrying news about his health, he orders a bunny costume on the internet. One day, in the middle of the night, he puts the costume on and, with Magda's help, puts on make-up and takes a picture to send to his ex-wife, as a way to apologize.

While sorting through the belongings of her recently deceased husband, Helena sees her past rise to the surface when her daughter finds letters that were never sent.

The creator of an artificial intelligence that helps people with relationships begins to believe that he is possessed by the AI ​​itself. In the same time, a user of the same AI also begins to go crazy, causing the two to fall into a kind of insanity, unable to tell the difference between reality and fantasy.

A lonely woman, stuck in a repetitive routine, is haunted by her own ghosts. When trying to escape, running away from her own image that brings up all these fears, she goes to the bus station, but the courage to leave disappears.

Lulina draws her greatest fears on the infinite white ground of the Moon. Magically, her illustrations come to life and teach her that her problems are not as monstrous as what her imagination depicted.

Irish artist Richard Mosse’s world-premiere moving image work, Broken Spectre, is a powerful response to the devastating and ongoing impact of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. Filmed over three years in remote parts of the Amazon Rainforest, Broken Spectre is presented across an immersive 20-metre widescreen panorama, utilising different visually arresting strategies to depict the unfolding crisis; each shifting in scale and focus to convey these urgent environmental fault lines more powerfully.

Ivan Lins performing at TV Cultura in 1974.

A movie adaptation of a story created by one of the greatest Brazilian cartoonists: Laerte. Two dumb clowns wander at night with the task of rescuing a kidnapped mate from an organization that aims to exterminate their kind. 'The Night of the Dumb Clowns' is a contemporary fable filled with humor against intolerance.