Brazil

While out for a walk in the countryside, Marina and Juvenal stop to take some pictures in front of an old woman’s house. Annoyed, the old woman turns out to be a witch and casts a curse on the young couple.Read More »

When there’s a crisis in power, the man who holds this power is also personally disturbed. His defeat is thorough and complete. A dictator, in a moment of serious national crisis, confronted in the streets and countryside by revolt and guerilla, makes a long speech on TV, looking for an illusionary peace. But reality is stronger than his fiction, and control gets out of hand. For him, there’s only one way out: a pathetic confession and going off the air.Read More »

In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film. Grande Otelo, the bungling “king of the deck”, and Marta Anderson, the blond and provocative star of the show, recite in the historical scenario of the chanchadas, the abandoned studios of Cinédia. “The photography is splendid, it is a sort of parallel song, of critique, of parody, of understanding of a certain light typical of Brazilian cinema of the times, already re-created, already stylized. And with the older actors, Otelo, Lewgoy and the others, something very important happened in the artistic perception, seeing again, doing again, it was already a concrete metalanguage” – Julio BressaneRead More »

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)
(imdb)Read More »

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 »