Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

Three friends are going through changes in their lives. Liz wants to change the style of music she plays, Mari wants to drop out of college and P1 wants to become a crab.

A short story of love, betrayal, revenge, sex, death and mistreated hearts: Raul comes home to find his wife, Assyria, having sex with another man. He begins for him a spiral of depressive and violent feelings that only seem to pause in the brief moments of leaving the house, attracting the attention of Amanda, a saleswoman. a flower shop.

Bon Jovi at Cidade do Rock, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 22, 2017. Setlist: This House Is Not for Sale / Raise Your Hands / Knockout / You Give Love a Bad Name / Born to Be My Baby / Lost Highway / Because We Can / I'll Sleep When I'm Dead / Runaway / We Got It Goin' On / Someday I'll Be Saturday Night (Acoustic) / Bed of Roses / It's My Life / Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen From Mars / Roller Coaster / Wanted Dead or Alive / Lay Your Hands on Me / Keep the Faith / Bad Medicine / Have a Nice Day / Livin' on a Prayer

A family leaves a small town in the state of São Paulo to move to Rio de Janeiro when the father gets a job promotion there. In Rio, everyone of them will fall prey to the city's sinful ways.

Paulo works as a high school literature teacher, his wife Teresa is a local shopkeeper, and their daughter Bel is still in school. They live in a rented flat in Saens Peña Square, in the heart of Tijuca, a neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. An unexpected and alluring job offer may have a profound effect on the routine of this family and even jeopardize a 20-year marriage.

Callado said he had to leave Brazil to get to know Brazil. His six-year trip to England and France during World War II sparked a "hunger for Brazil." As a journalist, he traveled to the "geographic center" of his Brazilian identity. As a writer, he reached the depths of his passion for a more just, less prejudiced, freer, and more democratic country.

Each person is a Carnival and Marina knows which one she is. On the slopes of Olinda she seeks the ecstasy of carnival revelry, the music, the shouting, the heat, the joy, the love. Her journey is seen through the eyes of ten different characters, and for each of them a director lends their artistic view. But in the midst of so many people, marching bands, encounters and misencounters, how can we find Carnival?

Industrialist's son returns from the USA, where he'd been supposedly studying Nuclear Physics, when in fact he'd devoted himself to pop music, without his father's knowledge.

When the plans for the future change, new bonds are created between Danilo, Lucas and Marcos. in between video-games and milk cups, pain and disappointment, they need to learn how to live together.

The documentary celebrates the poetic legacy of Lupicínio Rodrigues, investigating the musical contribution and historical context of this composer born in Rio Grande do Sul and author of hits that surpass generations.

The documentary Rádio Nacional performs a precious sewing, with more than 40 testimonies, and with it weaves the rich plot of the greatest mass communication vehicle of all times, until it abruptly suffered the 1964 coup.

João is a lonely boy living in the outback. No friends, no mother, and no bond with his father, he finds a chance to overcome his fears and a possibility to fit in when a small circus arrives in town.

Based on the novel "Totônio Pacheco", written by João Alphonsus. At the time of the decadence of the great farms of Minas Gerais, Totônio is a symbol of the golden age of state farms: old and accustomed to having all his wills obeyed. However, after moving to his son's home because of his wife's death and the resulting loneliness, he realizes that he has lost his job as a boss and is struggling to regain his prestige by moving to a brothel.

In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characterize so many metropolises. Unsurprisingly, Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, 1968) revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city. (Senses of Cinema)

Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom.

Documentary about the first actress from Pernambuco, Almery Steves, who starred in four of the famous films of the Recife Cycle.

A young man murdered a person and knocks on the door of an elderly woman's house to try to understand why.

João Ninguém is a humble composer who made the waltz "Sonhos Azuis" as a gift to his girlfriend on her birthday. To give it to her, he asked for help from a friend, but on the way, an accident happens and puts at risk not only the relationship, but also João's life and career.

After ruining yet another friendship, Alina finds herself tormented by the fear of eternal loneliness and decides to try to reconnect with Cacá, the only girl she never fought with.

César Benjamin was arrested in August 1971 during student protests against the Brazilian military dictatorship. Although he was a juvenile, he was tried as an adult and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Thanks to the ardent campaigning of his mother Iramaya, working closely together with the Swedish branch of Amnesty International, he was released five years later.

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

An urban fable that portrays the process of adaptation of Astro, the protagonist, to the city of Rio de Janeiro. The daughter of a Brazilian mother and a Swedish father, Astro comes to Brazil to receive an inheritance and ends up staying longer than she expected when she meets Alice. ART and the CITY are narrative elements that work in the transformation of the character. A positive history and vibrant rapture of self built on the border between reality and unconsciousness. An rapture of self built on the border between reality and unconsciousness.

Middle class man surrounded by fear and paranoia become prisoner of his own world.

Three men who never met each other are hired by a mysterious client to carry out a daring bank robbery.

An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.

After being orphaned, a boy is raised by his grandfather and uncles, rich rural landowners, on a sugarcane plantation where he grows up, studies, learns about politics, love and disillusionment.

After Sara, a curious young woman, found a somewhat suspicious book, little did she imagine that her destiny would not be completely in her hands. What will be Sara's future?

When the monsters arrived, the warheads were launched. Almost a decade later, former police officer Pilar fights for survival in a devastated world, clinging to the fragments of hope she still has left, while a new purpose blossoms in her heart. Between alien creatures and men without sanity, Pilar's great conflict remains in her own head: What's the reason to keep fighting?

On the night of the return to the stage of a famous rock band from the 1980s, a video that involves the band`s lead singer Aurélio Sá in the death of a military policeman, goes viral.

Documentary discussing the life and work of José Lewgoy, one of the most important Brazilian actors of all times.

A poor family, lives in a city near Salvador. The father is cleaner and, mother and daughter help making small services. Until they decide to try the luck in the big city and the father, João, get a job near Pelourinho, next to a dance academy. The daughter, Carla, in contacting music, discovers her true vocation and becomes a very successful dancer. But she does not let himself take away from fame and back to his origins, meets with poor children and teaches them to dance.

After Eric Dravens and his fiancee, Shelly Webster, get brutally murdered by gangsters, Eric returns as Death's emissary to avenge his beloved and himself.

Robson, a young person, seeks refuge with his warm-hearted grandmother in Belo Horizonte after a traumatic incident in his hometown. In search of acceptance and a safe space to embrace his true identity, he faces the harsh realities of prejudice and homophobia. As he navigates emotional highs and lows, he struggles to find his place in a world that is not always ready to accept him. Through powerful imagery and a compelling portrayal of inner conflict, the story explores self-love, identity, and the challenges of belonging in an often unwelcoming society.

A boy goes to sleep, but there's a monster under his bed.

In 1986, with nine members, the Titãs recorded the album "Cabeça Dinossauro", one of the most important records in the history of Brazilian rock. In 2012, as a quartet (Paulo Miklos, Branco Mello, Sérgio Britto and Tony Bellotto), the band celebrates 30 years and commemorative tour in a show recorded live at the Circo Voador, Rio de Janeiro) . The DVD was directed by Oscar Rodrigues Alves, one of the directors of the Titãs' documentary "Life Like a Party". The band plays heavy, with the blow it deserves.

A funny yet bitter panorama of the several possible viewpoints of this feeling that fulfils hearts and minds.

In this first independent (and unofficial) documentary from the Ala Secreta channel, Aline Lauxen unravels all the details surrounding the game Alien: Isolation, released in 2014 — and still considered one of the best horror and survival games ever released. But this success is not due to nothing, behind it there are 4 years of intense work in an insane production full of surprising stories. With more than four months of planning, twenty hours of research and more than fifty hours editing the final material, Alien: Isolation As You've Never Seen It is a must-see production for horror game fans and, above all, for fans of the franchise.

Letter film made by a grandson to his grandmother showing he is taking care of her plants.