Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

Between the depths of grief and the bliss of friendship, Gabriel teams up with his friends to create a film written by his late grandfather, who passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Margareth has always dreamed of being an actress, and now believes she has found her greatest opportunity.

Alice Cooper at Cidade do Rock, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 21, 2017. Setlist: Brutal Planet / No More Mr. Nice Guy / Under My Wheels / Guitar Solo (Nita Strauss) / Poison / Halo of Flies (with drum solo) / Feed My Frankenstein / Cold Ethyl / Only Women Bleed / Killer / I Love the Dead (band vocals only) / Fire / School's Out

Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.

Two young women retreat to a remote holiday home. While one of them undertakes a medical abortion, the other quietly cares for her. A snake slithers around them, unnoticed.

The death of the matriarch on Christmas eve provokes a crisis that makes the family review attitudes and give a new meaning to the date.

About animals and their food.

João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer.

A young woman living in São Paulo goes to Gramado to visit a friend of hers. Together, they meet an odd woman who engages in strange experiences through parapsychology. From then on, bizarre events are bound to happen.

Mid-19th century. A group of survivors from a wrecked slave ship, both black and white, end up on a deserted island, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. The fight for survival and power will flip the moral and social values of those days.

After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with Zózimo and lies to Letícia, telling that she is pregnant. Letícia decides to tell Arnaldo what happened, and he says that the child can not be born. He exposes dirty secrets to Engraçadinha, and a tragedy is announced.

In this animation that blends 35mm film illustration, digital art, cartoon, collage, computer graphics, and generated imagery, a dwarf comet crosses galaxies in search of its lost companion until it reaches the limits of its reality.

A group of actors and actresses rehearse play virtually and look for solutions to get around the fact that they cannot meet. Confined at home, they use their own family members on stage. The piece chosen is ÁLBUM DE FAMÍLIA, by Nelson Rodrigues, an attempt to debate the idea of a traditional Brazilian family.

Anna works at a bookstore. Lucas is suddenly very interested in books. A romantic comedy in which Chaplin meets the Nouvelle Vague.

Going down the river to wash her clothes, Iris finds much more than just the sound of the water.

Film in four segments: "Colagem", "Balanço", "Bandeira Zero" and "Sexta-Feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia", having in common a strongly allegorical and gross protest tone in the approach of its subjects.

In the 19th century, rich farmer with a passion for music dreams of having an orchestra. He hires a conductor, to help him organize the musicians. But the man falls in love with his daughter.

We’re at a party, time is passing.

A special event to celebrate Brazil's indigenous peoples and debate issues that directly affect the country's indigenous people.

After her adoptive father's death, Eva receives a reliquary with mysterious objects hinting at her origins. Seeking answers, she encounters Martin Hirsch, who poses a threat to her journey of self-discovery.

Greasy hair; grooved and unshaven face; emanating alcohol fumes. Raúl just doesn't care anymore. In the opening scene of Death Inhabits at Night, the unemployed writer pours himself another glass of cheap wine as an upstairs neighbour leaps to his death. His girlfriend is clearly more upset by the incident. A little later, she finds a letter by the door reminding them to pay the rent or be evicted. Raúl shrugs and suggests going back to bed. But all of this dismissiveness changes following a meeting with a troubled young girl.

Luiz Gonzaga decides to change his destiny and leaves his childhood home for the big city to overcome a romance. When he arrives, he meets a woman he falls in love with, the Odaleia (Nanda Costa). After the birth of his son and his wife's health complications, he decides to return to the road to ensure a better future for his son. He has a friend in Rio de Janeiro and with him leaves the little one and heads to Brazil. He didn't imagine that this distance between them would develop into a complicated relationship, enhanced by the strong personalities of both. Based on conversations between father and son, this is the story of Luiz Gonzaga, a singer and accordion player known as Rei do Baião or Gonzagão.

The grandfather of a former child star decides to become a superhero. The angst grandson will need to become a superhero's sidekick in order to help his grandfather to face aging with the same bravery that embodies the hero Captain Astúcia.

On the outskirts of the city of Nossa Senhora da Glória, in the hinterland of the state of Sergipe, Northeast Brazil, we will find an unexpected open-air sculpture park. This unusual “art gallery” is the result of the work of Cícero Alves dos Santos, known as Véio, a farmer, artisan and sculptor. In it, Véio installed his Nation, his family, made up of common and mythological beings, animals and extraterrestrials.

Rebecca, the daughter of missionary Lawrence Byrne, was declared a “miracle” after she survived a plane crash as a child, deep in the Amazon Forest. Years later, Rebecca, who became a famous healer in the region, and her father find themselves embroiled in an escalating conflict when illegal loggers invade the land belonging to the indigenous people they are evangelizing.

Young woman goes looking for her missing boyfriend, a photographer last seen going down huge São Francisco River, in Brazil. On her search, she is told many stories about that river.

A man kills his roommate and buries him hastily in the backyard. But soon people arrive to see the room the dead man had advertised the day before.

Comedian Whindersson Nunes brings his quirky impersonations and streetwise takes on different cultures to the historic stage of Teatro Amazonas.

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.

Two girls need to overcome their relationship when life starts to change.

Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.

The life of legendary Brazilian musician Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho, better known as Pixinguinha.

One of the most important events in Brazilian history, the Búzios Revolt of 1798 was led by dozens of black men who rose up to overthrow the colonial government, proclaim independence and establish a democratic Republic, free from slavery. The boldness of these men called on the people to make the Revolution and the conspiracy spread to the city of Bahia. The seizure of power is near. But the movement is denounced, the government sets up a Devassa against hundreds of people and four of them are hanged and quartered.

An affective approach to the relationship between Mário Pedrosa, one of the greatest art critics of the 20th century, and some of the most important Brazilian artists takes the viewer on a journey through Brazilian art from the 1950s.

A woman arrives from a trip, only to find her house a bit different from what she remembers.

How can a queer, androgynous Brazilian, son of a saint in Candomblé, an immigrant from Santo Amaro da Purificação in Europe, for 23 years bring together more than 60 thousand people dancing to the sounds of atabaques in the streets of Paris? This ritual, the Lavagem da Madeleine, which washes the steps of the French church, is intertwined with the life of his creator, the dancer from the Paradis Latin cabaret, Robertinho Chaves. In search of his identity in the Afro-Brazilian diaspora of Paris, he is about to cross the border of masculine and feminine, between the sacred and the profane.

Helena, married to decorator Bruno, is a woman dissatisfied with the futility of social life. She rekindles her relationship with her former boyfriend, Clóvis, and discovers how difficult the struggle for happiness is by seeing the example of the less fortunate. After saving herself from the rough seas on the beach, Helena finds herself possessed by a mystical fear. On New Year's Eve, while the people celebrate Iemanjá, Helena and Bruno throw a lavish party. Their employee, Luiz, is arrested as a suspect in the death of a woman found on the beach. Having a disagreement with her husband, Helena leaves the party and throws herself into the sea. She is saved by Umbanda followers and welcomed by Bruno, who tries in vain to comfort her.

Raimundo, a hit man who suffers from a serious illness, is hired to kill Grace, a prostitute who moved to São Paulo to get away from the persecution of her son’s father. Their fates meet in a peep-show booth, setting off a love story on the razor’s edge.

The story of two homeless brothers and their ambitious dreams of becoming race car drivers. Amidst a harsh reality where they are invisible to society, they embark on a journey of personal development that tests the strength of their love for their dreams, challenging what the world expects of them and showcasing the love of hope and unity.

Stunning espionage documentary on the US conspiracy that led to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson original White House tapes, and CIA Top Secret documents reveal how the US government planned to overthrow Brazilian elected president João Goulart.

Experimental Short, Brazil

João Grilo is a backwoodsman who tries to get along at the expense of the powerful in the city, who pretend to be respectful of morals and good customs and hide their sins. But when a band of cangaceiros attacks the small town, everyone has to settle accounts with God and the Devil.

Gloria Polk is a decadent writer who decided to return to writing a fiction book after 17 years of absence. One day, she decides to open her home to Carol, a young journalist who lives in his building and is married to her former husband. Excited about the opportunity, Carol realizes that Gloria has an obscure facet which meant that she had great difficulty in relating to other people over the years.

A stripper is arrested for killing her gigolo who exploited her as a prostitute under the name of Karina. Her despair turns to ardent passion when she meets a lady lawyer who promises her that she will be able to get her out of jail very quickly. But both ladies will have to fight an outlaw who will do whatever he can to possess Karina.

A wordless letter turns the kitchen into a space of memory, where grandmother, granddaughter, and time coexist through sound, the body, and remembrance.

The unlikely – yet authentic – story of the dwarf who became a giant.

Uno has a fantastic gift: he can talk and listen to cars since he was a child. After a new law prohibiting the use of aged cars puts his father's taxi company in danger, he takes a decision to recover an old family car into a “new one”, and its name is King Car – a car that speaks, listen, and even fall in love. A car that has plans for everyone.

Based on intense research - and seen through different realities, that of those who study it, that of those who try to contain it and that of those who live in it -, the film opens a debate about the largest and most impacting scene of crack use in an open area of ​​the world: Cracolândia, in São Paulo. The work analyzes the causes of this evil and its progressions, in addition to the combat tactics already carried out in São Paulo, opening a parallel with those applied in other countries.

A short film that summarizes, in three acts, a portrait of Brazil: the constitution, the presidency, and capital – This is Brazil. The contradictions of a country divided between dictatorship and democracy are the focus of the production, which uses fiction to portray Brazil in the early 1980s. Divided into three acts, the short film analyzes the importance of the Brazilian Constitution, the power of capital, and the role of the poet in ambiguous times.

Anna, Russell and Bernardo, 3 middle class brazilians involved in a game of passions between the autorship of a succesful book.