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Documentary about the brazilian poetess Ana Cristina Cesar, icon of the Mimeógrafo Generation and "Poesia Marginal", books like A Teus Pés, her aspirations, her life e her creative proccess. Artists, friends and researches remembers the poetess.
Unpublished images and exclusive testimonies from the main figures in power who tell how they faced the coup threat of January 8, 2023, a recent trauma in the country's history and revealing something that still remains hidden.
Maria is a shortfilm about a woman who was fooled to the western world while she was young and naiv, found what she dreamt of, but lost where she came from. Maria is the return to whatever's left of childhoods pastures.
Threshold narrates a story of love and mystery which takes place in an old house inhabited by the young Maria, whose fame as a saint extends well beyond the mountains of the interior of Brazil. The arrival of two new characters has a disturbing affect on Maria: a traveler, for whom "Holy Maria" develops an intense passion, and Aunt Emiliana, an elderly lady determined to prepare for the great miracle.
Cara de Cavalo is hired to kill criminals Monza and Vacuum Cleaner.
The Unseen follows the story of a young man who struggles to find a place within a social community. Without any dialogue, the film explores the tension between introversion and finding a sense of social belonging.
Uýra, a trans-indigenous artist travels through the Amazon forest on a journey of self-discovery using performance art and ancestral messages to teach indigenous youth and confront structural racism and transphobia in Brazil.
"Matriz.doc", directed by Otavio Sousa, is a film about the making of Pitty’s album Matriz. It features behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with collaborators, and visits to key locations in Salvador, Bahia, connected to the artist’s early career. The documentary explores the creative process and the cultural influences that shaped the album.
Emilia lives with her mother in a small town. Lonely, the girl corresponds to a mysterious man, with whom she nourishes a platonic passion. Her mother gets worried and does everything she can for her daughter to forget him.
The ghosts of Boca do Lixo. Ido Oliveira still walks through Triumpho St.
During a screening of Oedipus Rex in a run-down movie theater in downtown Rio, three peculiar characters—a frustrated projectionist, his intern, and a wandering poet—decide to interrupt the film to discuss the death of cinema. The audience revolts. So does the film.
After murdering their transphobic and tyrannical parents, two transgender siblings savor a fabulous dinner of poisoned expensive wine and their progenitors' hearts, but the dessert is served much more bitter than expected.
Images appropriated from an amateur porn video are reworked through reframing, distortion and other processes.
The whole life of man is but a point in time. HALF MAN, HALF GHOST is the latest exploration by Davi Pretto after his first feature-film CASTANHA. Pretto shows us an old man’s slow disappearing process, in a far and remote area in the south of Brazil. A man that represents an old style of men that inhabited this region, but no longer exists. Somewhere between an ethnographic documentary and a fantasy, a journey into darkness and oblivion.
Joyce is a 12-year-old girl who dreams...
Abelardo is a documentary about José Antônio da Silva Ballestero who has been a projectionist for 53 years at cinemas on the west border of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. José Antônio learned how to do the work with his father, who also was a projectionist and encouraged him to work in the projection room since he was a boy. The film tells the journey of a humble man showing his simple passionate view of the cinema. The memories, the films and opinions are revealed through a very spontaneous and amusing language. The projection problems, when the TV started, the VHS, DVD, pirate, internet, and the new technology that is coming to replace the old way of projection. Abelardo captivates people with his sincerity and friendliness. This is a nice story of the difficult job of a projectionist.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of journalist Vladimir Herzog, who was murdered by the military dictatorship in Brazil, the documentary retraces his life and the story of his family — up until his death on October 25, 1975. His assassination became a turning point in Brazil’s struggle for redemocratization during the 1970s.
Who can afford to remain immature, and who is forced to grow up too soon? With this premise in mind, TeTo arrives with the aim of exploring queer experiences in their many forms, through the relationship between two people who are completely opposite yet complementary at the same time. Here in this shared house, we welcome Joaquim, Angela Maria, Ariel and everyone who wishes to follow the unfolding of this story.
In this adaptation of Mary's Letter, Silent Hill 2, a young woman finds herself recording a final message for the love of her life. Amid memories, regrets, and the weight of farewell, her voice becomes a testament to love, pain, and redemption.
Fedra recently married Theseus, a man much older than her and lives traveling on work In the meantime, she feels a strange attraction to her stepson Hippolytus, who is gay and has a relationship with Angelo. Alone at home, she approaches her beautiful stepson, Hippolytus, and cannot hide the passion that burns within her. Guilt, desire and fear run together inside her heart.
Wandering Notes revealing an everyday life of the city that the author was born. Places picked by chance show her encounter with this city.
With the help of Sara, Arthur enters his own mind to find out why can't remember his past and why he is having memory lapses. In love with Mayara, he has to heal in order to retrieve his relationship with her, but deep inside of this dream environment, he'll find Hugo and will have to face a truth that will change your life forever.
When a young boy from a shanty town near Rio de Janeiro gets a coveted pair of white trousers for Christmas his joy knows no bounds. Not getting them dirty, however, presents certain difficulties for a lively slum kid.
A single misstep — crushing a cicada beneath his foot — plunges a young man into unsettling paranoia.
Thomas, a forensic scientist consumed by the darkness of his profession, sees his faith in God crumble. When he receives an eviction notice, he is forced to move his family to his great-grandfather's farm, where several crimes have already occurred. His daughter, Melissa, is possessed by a legion of demons, sparking a struggle between heaven and hell for her life.
A woman seeks revenge on a powerful crime boss.
Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso reflects on his imprisonment in 1968, during the military dictatorship.
How to exist in a sexist and listening structure? Gabriela, Celma and Klicia, three deaf women with different realities, share their struggles and trajectories in the deaf feminist movement.
In 1968, Orlando Lovecchio was made victim of a guerilla's bomb terrorist attack, which main objective was to fight against the Military Regime. Orlando lost one leg after the world-reckoned attack against the U.S. Consulate in Sao Paulo.
Isabela, an undocumented street artist in princess garb, comes across a lost toddler on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but time is pressing, and her immigration lawyer is waiting with a vital deadline.
Laura McNeil is a 17-year-old prodigy, deeply expressive yet withdrawn, who begins to question the faith that once gave her a sense of direction. As her doubts about the Bahá’í teachings grow stronger, her relationship with her mother becomes strained, and even her performance at school starts to slip. Caught between expectations and her desire for independence, Laura sets her sights on Los Angeles, determined to build a life of her own and learn how to stand, and ultimately fly, on her own wings.
An autobiographical docu-drama that chronicles the filmmaker's struggle with narrow minded authorities, critics, and personal tragedy.
This film is an exercise made for the Academia Internacional de Cinema "creativity process" class using archive footage and editing to create relation between images to convey a message. In May 2019 brazillian pro-government protesters ripped the banner "In Defense of the Education" from Federal University of Paraná , placed by activists in favor of public education and against the curtailment of expenditures of the Ministry of Education, which blocked 30% of the discretionary funds of universities and federal institutes.