Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

This delicate and impressive collection of life experiences centers on a group of foreigners -- Chinese, Peruvian, North American, Senegalese, Australians, French -- who are trapped in Brazilian jails.

A young man learns to how to be a thief from a more experienced one.

A story of self-processes, healing, and artistic exploration, following the journey of Samara, a trans artist, who sees herself in a tapestry of inner conflicts with herself and her work during the coronavirus pandemic. Samara seeks an end to her anguish.

Trail traces.

Matheus spends his sleepless nights writing letters to his ex girlfriend as a way to vent about his depressing and lonely daily life, hoping to regain someone to talk to.

Fala da Terra [Voice of the Land] develops around Coletivo Banzeiros, a theater group from Pará in the north of Brazil formed by members of the MST [Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra/ Landless Workers' Movement] engaged in forms of education and political militancy. Focusing on the techniques of democratization of the scenic means of production of Teatro do Oprimido by Augusto Boal, the piece occupies a territory between documentary and fiction and seeks to understand the construction of the 'Sem Terra' culture and collective identity through its artistic expressions.

Shortly after leaving a troubled relationship, Italo falls in love with Daniel, his new neighbor. After discovering that Daniel is an ex-con, Italo feels pressured to question his feelings for the boy.

Two travelers inside strange landscapes.

Woman who was raped and murdered reincarnates in the body of Maria Imaculada, a meek housemaid who hides her true inner evil behind an innocent face, secretly performs satanic rites in her room and changes the life of the family she's working for. Her intent is revenge against all the men crossing her way.

The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is headed by a matriarch anxiously waiting for the night to hear Carlos Lacerda. The intense emotional plot highlights the absurdity of the characters' behavior.

Paulo, an engineer, adopts shoe-shining teenage boy Darci, and slowly realizes he has more than just paternal feelings for him. Many twists follow, regarding Darci's true identity.

This movie is a spoof of "Planet of the Apes" (1968) and follows the storyline of the original step by step - in spite of being a crazy parody of the original film. A group of men lands in a balloon on an area (it's not a planet, it's more like a hill) where talking apes rule and humans are slaves. The apes try to transform the guys in monkeys; a simian princess falls in love with one of them; and so on. This film is one of the several movies made for the popular Brazilian group "Os Trapalhões" - Didi (Renato Aragão), Dedé, Mussum and Zacarias (who at this point hadn't joined the troupe yet) -, many of them inspired by American blockbusters. It's a very fun entertainment, but the humor is very "local" to be understood in other countries. Oh, yeah, the ape "makeup" is terrible, but that's part of the fun. The movie doesn't take itself seriously.

Three lives linked by a tragic fate try to find a way out of despair.

Documentary consisting of interviews with academics and professionals of the humanities and social sciences about the importance of culture as basic need for the human being.

Joviano is about to get married, but he has to give up his marriage to avenge the death of his father, murdered by Colonel Eufrásio. The colonel wanted to force Joviano's father to sell his lands, and started a bloody battle moved by refusal. Now he has to decide between his fiancée's love and revenge for his father.

A lonely man makes a wish for someone to make him company.

A doctor searches for answers. A young mother works the streets. A corrupt cop struggles to make ends meet. A homeless girl juggles for spare change. It's the night before Easter Sunday, and on Copacabana beach, anything can happen.

Two friends meet each other after a long time - but not in the way they expected.

A couple interrupts an intimate moment to discuss their relationship.

Lara and Elias are two brothers who return home after years. Strangers to each other, they need to perform a task given by their mother.

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.

Camillo Mastrocinque was one of many foreigners who came to Brazil in the 1950s to make films. The director of melodramas during the Italian fascist era directed this film, Areião (Inca Film, 1952), which could have spared Maria Della Costa. The film was renamed La priggione di sabbia to compete at the Venice Film Festival, but was rejected.

Documentary discusses the definition, birth and consecration of artistic creation with testimonies from Eduardo Sued, Carlos Vergara, Beatriz Milhazes, Cildo Meireles and Ernesto Neto.

A public appearance from international soccer player Marquinhos at Aurelio's bar launches a series of vignettes which spotlight Brazil's obsession with the round ball game

A group of friends break into a house to use drugs, but supernatural events and the truth about the place make them reconsider their actions.

An egg race becomes a contest with lies, deceit and tragedies.

Teachings of an Issei. Advice, spirituality and challenges.

A dance group rehearses for their latest performance Inabitáveis about black homosexuality. While the choreographer conducts research and gives guided tours, he meets Pedro, a young trans girl looking for her own means of expression. She desperately wants to be taught by him.

A man in crisis and an old super-8 movie with footage from his childhood. A paper picker and his son walk the streets in search of survival. The film traces a poetic trajectory between the impermanence of things and affective memory.

Criticism of the events of the civilist campaign, the owners of national politics and customs.

It's night and a woman needs to get to the airport, but there are many obstacles in her path.

The visual documentary "Negritudes Brasileiras" was a way found by Nataly Neri to continue the Brazilian racial debate, locating it in the present time with the rise of new concepts such as representativeness and the increasing popularisation of the internet. The documentary was sponsored by the Youtube project Creators For Change, which provides a framework for creators to produce content engaged in the platform to combat hate speech, racism, xenophobia, etc.

In a dystopian future, the population is prohibited from having sexual relations. However, this measure will only come into effect at 12:00 a.m.

Psuchological drama about a sucessful businesswoman who has not overcame ghosts of her past.

Fralda and Tito only think about enjoying the graduation party. However, for different reasons, plans for the big night go awry. To improve the situation, Tito proposes a trip.

A projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay about the failure of a lifetime. The scenes from the films you watched intersect with the new images they capture, fiction and reality blending together, weaving a bridge between the past and the present.

"Estratosférica ao Vivo" is not just the record of a Gal Costa show. It is the portrait of the artist reaching the 70 years of life, 50 of them dedicated to music. The show "Estratosférica" ​​crowns the new artistic phase of Gal, more and more interested in connecting several tips of the history of the music of Brazil, joining the composers of its generation to names of the new national scene. The script, created by Marcus Black, was very good at this idea. Sewing songs by Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Luiz Melodia, Jards Macalé and Waly Salomão, Carlos Pinto and Torquato Neto, Roberto and Erasmo Carlos - a series of tropicalist and post-tropicalist works that until now serve as reference and feed the new generations of music.