Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

A single misstep — crushing a cicada beneath his foot — plunges a young man into unsettling paranoia.

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 series “Mundo da Lua”, produced by TV Cultura in the 90s in Brazil, returns in another logbook by Lucas Silva e Silva. The documentary “Diário de Bordo de uma Viagem à Infância” is the meeting of those who were in front of and behind the cameras, telling the backstage of the series, and also the fans who followed on TV.

Bonga is a bum who lives on the streets, alone and free, with no commitments, except for pulling off naive scams to get food. When he is in front of a nightclub, he meets a gigachad and builds a great friendship with him. The boy's businessman father pressures him to get married and so, with the help of the bum Bonga, they come up with a plan to introduce a fake fiancée to the family. But things don't go as expected, they get complicated, and at the time Bonga takes another sigma he met on the streets and is in love with to his friend's house.

Three stories set on Brazil countryside. In Foice, a weeder becomes head of his group and awakes the envy of his best friend. In Veneno, a cowboy cannot sleep, waiting for the revenge from a enemy of the past. And in Machado, a quiet and rude rose maker decides to end his wife's joy of living.

Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation of the forest, Archie tracks ants back to their nest. One of them wanders off course and comes across Canh, a Filipino, sitting on top of a giant heap of earth and who is about to go back to his strange, beautiful home town, where he too has a miserable job.

A statuette bought in an antique shop in Tokyo may lead to the discovery of a great treasure.

Son and mother misses each other and the good old times in a mixture of reality, fiction, films and music.

Dr. Drauzio Varella has a hypothetical conversation with his friend Hector Babenco, a filmmaker who died in 2016. The importance of friendship is addressed in the documentary based on the death of a friend — and shows the decrease in happiness and the irreplaceable void left by this game.

Shortly after her honeymoon Alicia contracts an inexplicable illness, while her husband Jordan bear witness seemingly indifferent. Something hidden is driving her insane. The disease makes the young woman mix reality with gruesome hallucinations.

A man is looking for a radio singer named "Dulcineia." For this, he goes through the biggest hassles and problems. The plot, in fact, is an excuse for the exhibition of the musical numbers of the greatest Brazilian Radio artists.

In Pau Brasil, a small, lost village in the heart of Brazil, the families of Joaquim and Nives live side by side. Despite living in the same perverse structure of social oppression, they deal with life in radically different ways.

A confirmed bachelor tries to persuade his recently engaged friend back to his old carefree life.

Denying his duty and in order to escape a crucial process of becoming a shaman, Ihjãc runs away to the city. Far from his people and culture, he faces the reality of being an indigenous in contemporary Brazil.

Rota ABC is a documentary essay about the desires and perspectives of youth living in the industrial suburb of São Paulo, directed by Francisco Cesar Filho and produced by Anhangabaú Produções, with a soundtrack by the punk rock band Garotos Podres.

Beaches are closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the middle class must survive the tropicals.

A documentary about the educational children's TV show Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum that originally ran from 1994 to 1997 and shown to this day on Brazilian public television.

In a city consumed by violence, a cowboy walks through dark corridors in search of his missing partner. Between torture, revenge, and supernatural forces, something far greater seems to be watching him from the shadows.

a moon, two moons, three moons *No projector runs at the same exact speed as another, even with the standard frame rate of 24 per second. There is a (d)effect that could not be counted in number and this "imperfection" is apparent to our retinal perception throughout a long transformation, as if it were the lunar orbit.

Anxious to please his boss, Roberto agrees to host the chief's lover in his own home, unaware of the problems this could cause among his family.

Travel through time without leaving your place.

A itinerant cinema comes to Rita’s small town and she has the opportunity to go to the movies for the first time in a long time.

A dark forest, a castle in ruins, two medieval knights and a diabolic creature from times immemorial. Based on the horror comic by Antonio Rodrigues and Julio Shimamoto, a legend among Brasilian comic artists.

An ordinary morning. A swimming pool. Two women. The reflection of the water distorts the words as Melina and Renata try to save what still remains. But what is the weight of loving something that no longer fits in the same place?

As her day goes by, Dona Violeta takes sips of a purplish tea made with flowers from her backyard. Then after asking a delivery, the lady behaves in an increasingly curious way.

Roberto and Carol are a loving couple, raising studious and intelligent children. However, an unexpected event will shake the family's structures.

In Uberlândia in Brazil, Chico earns his living by repairing ovens, in which he enters easily thanks to his small size. Faced with the contempt of a system that relegates him to the ranks of the marginalized, he gradually enters into resistance.

Xuxa presents a series of musical educational videos dedicated exclusively to a new, much younger generation of kids.

Helldose is an anthology where the hostess leads her guests to prove five different flavors from the depths of hell.

Based on footage shot in the devastated neighborhoods of Maceió (Brazil), the film reconstructs a landscape silenced by urban collapse and the physical erasure of the territory. Time and space lose their clarity, and the fragments left behind become a fleeting memory, shaped by absence, resistance, and cinema itself.

"O Corneteiro Lopes" is a story of love and courage. The city of Salvador is under siege by Brazilian troops, however, they lose strength in the course of battles. The Portuguese Luiz Lopes, alongside the Brazilian army, contrary to the orders of General Labatut, changes the fortunes of the Battle of Pirajá.

A religious comedy in 5 segments, illustrating maniqueism on Earth, as shown by movies. God and his son Jesus disagree on how to manage human life on Earth.

We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investigation with part of secret attempts, discovery of Soviet documents and a lot of investigation by the Brazilian media. It was all under our eyes.

A threesome that takes place against the backdrop of Brazil's 2018 presidential election. Three young adults in a love triangle seek to understand the world and who they are on the brink of a shocking and highly-divisive election that puts the future of each one in check.

After the death of his wife, Otto starts having trouble to sleep without his natural medicine: a lettuce tea she made every night.

A millionaire lives in a sinister cottage where strange events unfold. A damned creature, he transforms himself in a werewolf and leads a following whose adepts spread horror and despair in the neighboring city, becoming themselves a clan of assassins. One day, the werewolf confronts Branca Justiça (White Justice), who summons benign forces to scathe them and frees him of his own wickedness.

A CIA agent discovers a document about a Brazilian crazy scientist that transformed dead Nazis, including Adolf Hitler, into mummies.