Brazil

Zeca’s routine is about to be disrupted-not just because he is about to be fired, but also because of an unforeseen bond with Luisa, the coworker who breaks the news and who, somewhat kindly, offers to drive him home.Read More »

An ambitious actor and a successful politician start a secret affair, and together they discover their fetish for having sex in public places. The closer they get to their dream of fame, the more they feel the urge to put themselves at riskRead More »

To provide a better life for his family in the country, 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo for his new boss, Luca, but becomes trapped in the dangerous world of human trafficking.Read More »

Synopsis
The life and literature of South Mato Grosso poet Manoel de Barros. Alternating sequences of interviews with the poet, verses from his poetry, and statements of connoisseurs of his literature, the film portrays a revealing panel of the author`s language. Manoel de Barros, age 91, with some 20 books published, lives in Campo Grande. Acknowledged, the winner of several literary prizes, he is the Brazilian writer who accounts for the greatest sale in poetry in Brazil.Read More »

Synopsis
Cris, aged 12, and her older brother are left at the side of the road by their parents. Very quickly the punishment turns into an even greater challenge. “Eles Voltam” (They’ll Come Back”) follows Cris as she attempts to find her way back home. It is a journey through a series of different realities, guided by the people that inhabit them. A modern day fable, filled with realistic overtones, and the story of Cris’s self-discovery.
Marcelo Lordello (Director)
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Roberto Santos, when he was a teacher at film school, gathered friends and students to make this movie, an unique work in brazilian filmography due to its kind of collective experimentalism and complicated relations with censorship, since it was produced during the militar dictatorship.
Today it’s very rare.Read More »

Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard’s visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis, is encouraged by her personal Brazilian maid Amélia to perform in Rio de Janeiro. After arriving, she is forced to tolerate the company of Amélia’s exotic sisters.Read More »

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Story of Brazilian bank-robber Lúcio Flávio, who fascinated some people in Rio de Janeiro during the 1970s for his bold robberies and spectacular escapes, and also because he was thought to be intelligent and “politically aware”. Before dying, he disclosed a network of corruption in Brazilian Police, and its involvement with the infamous “Death Squad” of the time, a group of policemen who went about killing criminals without giving them a fair trial.Read More »

Synopsis
A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals–as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.Read More »