Discoveries from Brazil World Cinema

From Gallipoli to Brest-Litovsk, witness WWI's turning points-naval clashes, mutiny, and revolution-shaping the fate of empires and the world.

One man, two lovers: Ana and Anna, living in identical apartments. Paranoia is the name of the game in this hallucinatory.

After a life of richness, a conservative industrialist blames himself for abandoning his youth's left values. In existential misery, he keeps looking for a possible personal redemption after a foreign company buys his business. His life breaks into pieces.

Machado de Assis, the most famous Brazilian writer, is transported, without further explanation, to current times. Received with skepticism by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, where he will be questioned by immortal colleagues who suspect they are dealing with an imposter, Machado defends himself vehemently. Is he the true Immortal, founder of the Academy?

Manuel is a fanatical barber for a São Paulo soccer team, Corinthians, and that's why he always gets into trouble with his neighbors and family.

In the heat of a Manaus night, the young women, Orfea (she) and Eurídice (they/she) have fun with their friends in the middle of parties and bars of the city's queer nightlife, all while they try to hide what they feel for each other.

Experimental documentary that poetically exposes the reality of public transport in the city of Curitiba.

A sculptor fakes his own death to escape his debt collectors. He just didn't expect to discover that it's at the time of death that we find what we've been looking for our entire lives.

Two villages nine kilometers apart and a fierce rivalry. On the Brazilian side, the inhabitants of Belezura, a small town that lives off jobs in the furniture industry, are about to face two events that will change their lives: the closing of the factory and the last football match against the arch-rivals of the neighboring town, which for all of them becomes the last football match before the end of the world. And on one point everyone agrees: you have to win.

A man faces the consequences of getting home distracted after buying some fruits at the supermarket.

In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of migrants move trying to find better place to live, at least with water. Some of them go to Recife, to get a vessel to Santos expecting to have a better life in the Southern. In the poor area of Recife, an old washerwoman launders clothes to survive and support her family. Her husband Zé Luis, a former sailor, is crazy due to a hit of the boom of a mast on his head. Her older son Raimundo works in a grocery and selling mangoes on the street, trying to save money to move to the Southeastern with his girl-friend Aurora. Her daughter wants to be a prostitute to have a better quality of life. Her younger son is seriously sick.

I went to China with hand luggage only. In China, motorcyclists wear the reverse jacket and restaurants serve fish heads, crayfish and eels. The event's employee studies cinema and likes Kung Fu films. I bought vacuum-packed chicken feet.

In a future where women were replaced by androids, Karen (Natalie Fronczak), a robot-wife, is living a crisis in her relationship with Francis (William Barbier), a violent husband. Based in the Laws of Robotics, she asks for a divorce.

Two girls who once loved each other meet in the field. Throughout the conversation, they go through memories, emotions, sensations, until they can finally let go. The release of a place that no longer belongs to you and that you no longer belong in it.

Interspersed with documentation of dancer Juliana Carneiro da Cunha’s "Possession" performance, which draws from Christian mysticism, in the filmmaker’s words this experimental short is about “the psychic suffering of women in a patriarchal society”. It takes the viewer on a disorienting journey—with abrupt cuts in sound and image—through the Catholic Church, repressed sexuality, racial violence perpetrated by white women, maternal fatigue, male chauvinism and drug addiction…

Alice, a very curious little girl, decides to follow the white rabbit and fall into a huge hole that leads to Wonderland, a place ruled by mystery and fantasy. There, she will meet very strange characters, such as the Mad Hatter, the Laughing Cat and the Queen of Hearts!

In a workshop there are six workers, the six are brothers. Enter the mother who asks them to rescue the seventh brother, the youngest, Luis. The brothers hesitate because the youngster keeps getting into trouble, but they end up giving in to the request. Gangsters are fighting in a bar and the workers end up getting into the fray.

Scientist Adelaide hates men, specially the cheating ones. Researching for revenge methods against them, she estabilishes contact with creatures from outer space, gaining special powers.

Helena Maria Balbinot, a countryside teacher from the south of Brazil, exchanged letters during 24 years with Brazilian modernist poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. The movie reveals part of these letters. Through scenes of poetry and extreme beauty, this friendship is reinvented in the audience eyes. A meeting between the poems of Drummond and the particular universe of Helena Maria.

Bacamarte, a Brazil-born Portuguese (when Brazil was a colony), is a prominent physician whose sincere obsession for discovering a universal method to cure pathological disorders drives inhabitants of the small Brazilian town of Itaguaí to fear, conspiracy, and revolutionary attempts.

Rejane returns to her hometown, Paraíso, in search of answers to her brother's murder.

In Natal, on the Brazilian north coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with their two children near the space centre, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons.

In the 80s, in an aerobic gym, Katarina, an ambitious teacher, obsessively pursues perfection. Between intense choreography and rivalry, she needs to stay on top at any cost. What is the limit of the search for perfection, and how far is one willing to go to achieve it?

The documentary tells the story of seven women with their fat bodies, from prejudice to acceptance and self-love. Despite their lives, their sizes and different gender contexts, they have in common the struggle for respect for their flesh in the face of a culture of beauty summarized in unattainable standards.

Three widows of political prisoners united against the dictatorship in Brazil and the repression of the military regime.

Vanessa da Mata presents her newest project "Caixinha de Música". Recorded at the Teatro Natura in São Pualo, the project is the second DVD of her career and brings a new musical concept for the singer, in which she brings interference from electronic music incorporating the organic sound of a trio of musicians.

On the first day of the year, multiple characters meet in a sumptuous country house nearside Rio de Janeiro. From dawn till dusk, they all face their crisis and limitations, and search for a meaning for their lives.

The film tells the story of how a team challenged boundaries and traditions to transform the "Land of Grapes" into a stage for horror, proving that independent cinema thrives through community collaboration and perseverance.

Rogai Por Nós tells the story of Catholic saints, revered in Brazil, with the presentation of their works, miracles and edifying teachings.

Following the life of theater actor Edson Aquino, the documentary plays with his character's actions to discuss performance as a way of nullifying reality itselfю

One breakfast can change Adelaide's entire life.

The women's athletics (4x100m relay) is about to win a gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games, the Brazilian victory is almost certain and the athletes are one step closer to what would be a milestone. If only one fatal error hadn't put off their dreams: the carelessness of the young Maria Lúcia causes the group to be disqualified. This changes Maria Lúcia and Adriana's lives forever, Adriana does not forgive her teammate after the final. Four years go by. Maria Lúcia is still the great promise in athletics while Adriana makes a living out of MMA fighting. A few months away from the Tokyo Olympics, they are called in to join the new 4x100 team. This time, Maria Lúcia and Adriana need to overcome the mistakes of the past. They count on the help of veterans Rita and Jaciara as well as newcomer Bia, athletes who rediscover their true power as a team, showing that the Brazilian women's athletics is stronger than ever.

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.

Report of a crawler, who helped the steering wheels to find traces of the cangaceiros in the caatinga and their knowledge to survive in this environment.

In a financially troubled farm in the 1930's, its depraved owners become attracted to their new handsome and young handyman.

When a young Pathfinder mysteriously loses his neckerchief, he sets out on a journey to uncover three divine secrets. With the help of his friends and inspired by the riddles of the wise Alfred, Caio faces challenges that reveal deep spiritual mysteries. Get ready for a faith-filled adventure full of surprising discoveries.

The Driver is a man lost in today's society. It's him and his car against the world.

A stubborn prosecutor is tasked with putting a plastic surgeon in jail who confessed to killing and dismembering a former patient. What should be an easy case ends up becoming one of the most difficult and disturbing jobs of his career. More than presenting incontrovertible proof and evidence, she will have the challenge of making the jurors -and millions of Brazilians- forget the absurd thesis, constructed with the help of the media by a brilliant lawyer, that the defendant is not a cold-blooded killer and cruel, but a peaceful good man, driven crazy by the unhealthy pursuit of an ex-girlfriend.

It's more dificult to love than to be bewitched. The film has as it's central theme the loving separation, but the consequences of this separation are attributed to occult forces that throwing the protagonist in the world of Afro-Brazilian mystical religions.

A researcher invites a local guide to accompany her to the ruins of the old Don Felipe club, in the Nova Iguaçu Municipal Park. On the trail, his investigation is threatened by unexpected events.

In a place taken by poverty, Aparecida lives full of dreams and hope. While her husband leads a bitter life caused by a tragedy from the past, she decides to take an attitude that can change everything: to leave for the big city.

Famous gunman Judas is hired to avenge the death of the city mayor, but his plans take an unexpected turn when he falls in love with the daughter of the colonel he is supposed to assassinate. Amidst the unfolding drama, the police attempt to broker a deal with those involved, but the arrival of the colonel’s nephew, an engineer with plans to build a dam in Degredo, disrupts the delicate balance.

After their relative and associate runs way, the Naves brothers inform the police of the incident, who end up arresting them under the accusation of murdering the missing person. The brothers are tortured in order to confess a crime they did not commit while their wives are raped.