Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of acting through the career of Paulo Autran (1922-2007), one of the greatest actors in Brazil.

The stories told by those who live from the Rio Potengi reveal the rhythm of the tides, flowing through memories, silences, and the strength of a river that resists between the mangrove, time, and the city.

A retired cop becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a prostitute.

On the last days of his life, while succumbing to alcoholism in a hospital, famed writer Lima Barreto chronicles his trajectory story as a black, poor writer living in Brazilian society between monarchy's dying days and early years of republic with its countless social problems, which formed the basis of his many novels.

Memories, mistakes and regrets of what could have been?

A woman with mental problems gets lost in her own thoughts and doesn't know what is real and what is imagination.

The film tells a little of the history of Brazil immersed in the caricature of the conditions of making cinema in this country. Flora and Carlos Manoel fall in love. She, from a family linked to the Monarchy, and he, a republican activist, live their love in the last days of the monarchy, without knowing that the end of the empire would also mean the end of their romance.

Pablo lives happily in Rio de Janeiro, but his son is about to be expelled from school in Argentina. He has to go back to Buenos Aires and fix things.

Brazil, 1961. In the underground of the Piratini Palace, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, awaits a bombing by the Brazilian armed forces. The country is on the verge of a civil war, following the resignation of president Jânio Quadros and the movement to keep vice-president João Goulart from taking office. Using the radio transmitter from his improvised bunker, Brizola sets up the Legality movement, to ensure Goulart's right to the presidential chair. Caught in the crossfire, two brothers who are in love with the same woman unite to fight alongside Brizola.

The relationship among three friendly couples turns upside down when two of the men get a job on TV. Their girlfriends leave them, looking for more action in their lives.

A young woman, a teacher in a countryside school, has affairs with boys and girls.

Prostitute is impregnated by a wealthy businessman. Identical twins are born: Márcio created by the father and the mother another. The latter becomes a marginal, while the first, with the death of his father, inherits fortune incalculable. Upon learning of fortune inherited by his brother, the marginal killer, and takes its place in business. Everything goes well until an employee discovers the drama.

It is the story of Pedro, who after being passed over by his brothers, wanders the world in search of a better life, but on the way, finds children who eventually conquer it, and in order to help them, he passes scamming other people he met along the way, telling lies, however, always with the goal of helping him new friends. And kills a cow.

A street singer, a former prostitute and her jealous husband, two thieves, a teacher and two children. All strangers. All in the same place. Five stories that could be one: the search for what we call happiness.

During the pandemic, introverted painter Hélio meets aspiring model Theo and begins a report that will make him face his deepest insecurities in a way he never imagined.

Surrounded by middle-class condominiums, the MTST's Povo Sem Fear occupation existed for less than a year, between 2017 and 2018, in São Bernardo do Campo, in ABC Paulista. Facing prejudice and oppression on a daily basis, the campers offer an inside look at the occupation, its social functions and its human condition.

Documentary by Portuguese Silvino Santos, about the Amazon, its flora, fauna, its inhabitants and among other wonderful images from the beginning of the 20th century with alternating close-up shots of caimans, jaguars and tropical flora with footage of Indigenous rituals--including some of the earliest known moving images of the Indigenous Witoto people--and longer sequences showcasing the region’s extractive industries: rubber, the Brazil nut, timber, fishing, even the egret feathers that were a staple of women’s fashion at the time.

A cleaner accidentely stills a secret formula and get mistaken for the heir prince of an old kingdom.

Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his grandmother dies, his grandfather's health soon fades to the point where he can't speak or walk. The local party officials ask Dede to continue to family tradition and take over his grandfather's position of social authority, but when Dede is introduced to cocaine by his best friend Alpino (Marcos Palmeira), the attraction to drugs is more appealing to him than political activism.

Cora is an ordinary girl who finds herself in an unusual situation: she lives in a troubled relationship with Camila, a vampire. Everything changes when Cora realizes that this scenario is harming much more than her night's sleep.

On 26 August 2012, during their Overexposed Tour in South America, Maroon 5 performed in front of 30.000 people at Arena Anhembi, São Paulo, Brazil, which according to Levine has become their biggest paying public to an exclusive concert of the band to date.

Iara, a girl who is about to come of age, dreams of seeing the ocean, but lives in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside with her mother, a woman who's dreams were swallowed by the waves and who fears of losing her daughter.

Geraldo Viramundo (Diogo Vilela) is a nice guy with absurd ideas. Genial and / or insane, he decides to leave her small town in Minas Gerais and win the world. Your goal is to destabilize the system and their accomplices are the prostitutes and the destitute.

The space between reality and dreaming that is reached when one falls asleep in the couch while watching TV

Camila, a completely skeptical girl, falls in love with a boy from a Christian family. The young woman, who is emotionally shaken by her mother's premature death, ends up finding meaning in life in a Christian rock band.

The humble Zacarias goes to the big city with his wife to help their son who wants to be a Doctor. There he gets a job, and lives a lot of funny adventures as a taxi driver.

History of Renner, football club champion Gaúcho undefeated in 1954. A rescue of the time formed by players, former workers of Renner companies, who overcame Grêmio and Internacional. The feat made alive in the memory of several generations

The principal character in Helvécio Ratton's delightful film has been adapted from a book and comic created by the Brazilian cartoonist Ziraldo, and tells the tale of a happy-go-lucky 10-year-old child growing up in a city in the 60s.

A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?

Marisa Monte's debut album concert. The show was recorded live at the Villa-Lobos Theater and featured special appearances by Ed Motta, Paulo Moura, and Nouvelle Cusine.

Morena joins her transsexual friends for another night of routine and struggle for survival. But when she comes across a new client, she returns to her past in a violent and harrowing way.

Rafael is a young man who is tired of only reaching guys who say they are straight. Not wanting to go through this kind of embarrassment anymore, he gets a device that will put an end to all his doubts, the gaydar.

A poor college student becomes a homosexual millionaire's lover in order to get ahead in life. The latter marries a woman for convenience, and the newlyweds end up sharing the young man.

a voyeurisTic capture of fLuid conscience of the urBan Queer niGht in são Paulo wIth it’s tunes, flAshes, waNderers and their edifications.

Through scenes of a repeating and limited daily routine, we get to know upfront the reality of marginalized women way before they were emprisioned. Saudade Mundão is a movie about human beings that takes place on the public jail of Franca, São Paulo.

Based on a book by Machado de Assis (1839-1908) and adapted to the present time. After the death of the philosopher Quincas Borba, his friend and disciple Rubiao inherits all he possessed: his fortune, his dog, his philosophy and the germ of his madness. Rubiao's passion for Sofia, a friend's wife, places him at the center of a game in which she is the main piece while he is the only one who ignores the rules. The story of a dreamer and delirious man facing a reality to which he is not prepared.