Brazil

Synopsis:
When ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence between two rival families.Read More »

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ASSUNTINA OF AMÉRIKAS: an opera, a musical one, a comedy, a colored gesture of creative freedom. Assuntina is sought by the camera not like a woman-history, bearer certain political ideas. Besides, fidelity inexists the only one woman’s certain image. And instead of the true woman (Sara, of “Terra em Transe”), we have an object bitter, superficial, closed in the search of her identity.Read More »

This is one of Ivan Cardoso’s first films – shot totally in Super 8mm! It’s a parody of the old-age vampire story, but this time Nosferato (Torquato Neto) decides to feed on the bikiniclad beauties lying on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro (land of the string bikini, mind you!) Lots of laughs, skin and an ingenius use of locations!Read More »

Synopsis
An expressionist, at time semi-surrealist account of a Brazilian family over the last 40 years, in the historical impasse which the non-revolutionary classes could not overcome. A succession of political plots, melodramatic upheavals, and betrayals capture the violence, color, and atavistic strangeness of an opressed, stagnant civilization and its victims.Read More »

Imdb wrote:
Heleno and Cláudia reverse the roles traditionally reserved for men and women in marriage. He dedicates himself to domestic chores, feels like a sexual object, and in the club defends the rights of men. On the other hand, she is a unscrupulous executive who cannot see a boy without thinking of a new adventure. Their lives are shaken by the adultery of Claudia with Heleno’s friend Almir, who prostitutes himself to raise his son after his wife leaves.Read More »

As condition to inherit some assets, three women must turn three gay men into their lovers. Fighting for the money are also a charitable nun, a gay lawyer and a dissolute woman.Read More »

Synopsis
This pseudo diary film is made of found materials from an unfinished 16mm film. Potenciais à Deriva is a film started by a Brazilian artist under a pseudonym while living in exile in Los Angeles, California. Isolated shots and previously assembled scenes reveal an intention to create a mysterious film comprised of disembodied interviews, empty rooms, radio recordings, soccer games, and sudden apparitions of the filmmaker that slowly ruminates on Brazil’s colonial past, North American Imperialism and the military dictatorship of the time in a paranoid and anxious manner.
Be aware that the film’s final version never came to exist. This version presented is my mere attempt to produce a film with these otherwise lost images.Read More »

Nothing Like Before delves into the creation of the Clube da Esquina Album (Brazil, 1972). Considered by many music critics one of the best albums of all time, it presented to the world musicians like Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges, Toninho Horta, Beto Guedes and Wagner Tiso.Read More »

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Dayana lives an abusive marriage with former police officer Elias, owner of Motel Destino. When 21-year-old Heraldo finds himself at the motel after messing up a hit and going on the run, Dayana finds herself intrigued and lets him stay. As the two navigate a dance of power and desire, a dangerous plan for freedom emerges.Read More »