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 »
Magellan is a navigator rebelling against the power of the King, due to his humanism and belief in justice. But once he is finally in command of the Spice Fleet, in which he will make the first circumnavigation of the Earth, what will his journey unravel about himself?Read More »
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Mariana, seventeen, is a high school student living on the outskirts of Lisbon. One day, she is caught in a desperate situation: having been raped by a drug addict, she later finds that she is pregnant.
Out of fear, shame or anger she decides to conceal it from everybody else – her parents, boyfriend, friends, the police and the court – and cope with it on her own.Read More »
1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is confined to the forest, where Afonso decides to heal them by trying to understand what is affecting their soul. Will he manage to save them?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 »
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May 2016. A group of 11 women set off from a village in the extreme north of Portugal on pilgrimage to Fátima. They walk 400km on foot over 10 days, crossing half of Portugal in a great effort to fulfill their promises.
The extreme fatigue, suffering and physical limitations of each one of them lead to moments of rupture. Then they reveal their deeper identities and motivations.
When arriving in Fatima, in the midst of enormous exhaustion, each one will have to find her own way to redemption.Read More »
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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 »
Johannes Van Almeida, a painter who was just released from prison, wants to start his life anew, but everything changes when art dealer Antoinette and international actress in crisis Florence Lizz get in his way.Read More »