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- The loving relationship between a sculptor and a dancer.
- 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.
- A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, they look for answers to existential questions. Yet it isn't until their different paths cross that they begin to understand why they came.
- The unusual meeting between three deserters from different nationalities (Brazil, German and Italy) during World War II.
- Every time a child draws a monster, he comes to life in a very special place: the Monstrous Monster World, spreading chaos wherever he goes. It remains to Lali and her monstrous friends - Luisa, Dede and Gorgo - resolve the confusion learning something with it.
- A Nigerian musician travels to Brazil to find his long lost brother.
- Christopher Kirk, a bored American geek, moves to Colombia to chase Escobar's hippos. Once there, he falls in love with a beautiful and mysterious woman.
- Former political activist receives compensation money for her husband's disappearance, during the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985). She is now able to afford a new home. While moving in, a visitor forces her to review her entire history.
- After thirteen years in Guantanamo, Muhammad is set free and taken to Uruguay. He has a second chance in an unknown place where he shall start to live a new life in freedom.
- Frustrated about the 21st century, a teenage girl swaps places with her ancestor with a dressing table. Traveling through the 19th century, alongside her brother, she witnesses major historical events of the brazilian history.
- Biopic about the late Joãozinho Trinta, a self-taught classical dancer who turned Rio's Carnival into an international phenomenon in the 1970s and '80s by directing parades for samba schools and putting focus on costumes and decor.
- Martin is divorced as has not lived with his daughter for a long time. When Sara is back in his care, he discovers that the girl is far from a typical teenager.
- A German actor lands in Montevideo. After his arrival, he gets lost and runs into a group of young men who try to rob him. He meets Pedro, an ex-addict in his forties and Nelson, a laconic security guard whose wife has left him.
- The story of eight great Brazilian writers, unveiling the different personalities and talents of the country's literary universe.
- is a film about the feminine. Visiting the celebrations of the Virgin Mary's (Marias) from Brasil, Cuba, México, Peru and Nicarágua, the director Joana Mariani observes the similarities and disparities among their cultures, and listen to women who have their very particular stories about life, faith and devotion. The result is a very singular film that shows that the image of the Virgin Mary (Maria) is a lot more than a religious figure or the mother of Christ.
- Fabricating Tom Zé is a documentary that portrays the life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Zé's 2005 European Tour. The documentary mixes different video, film and animation formats in order to show a detailed vision of Tom Zé's personal musical universe, in which a guitar and a vacuum cleaner have the same melodic importance. In intimate interviews, he narrates different parts of his life and tells us about his musical debut in the early 60s, his downfall during the 70s and his 90s comeback. The film carries interviews with Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, David Byrne and others. Tom Zé, at his 70th anniversary, continues to produce highly original music.
- A long and lonely night in the lives of three female ballet dancers. Without much to do, they immerse themselves, each on their own way, into the existential nightmares, fantasies and self-loathing. But how much of those moments are actually real?
- Some call to live the period of time from the moment you wake up until the time you to go to bed. This film is about the ones to whom this period of time is not about living, but about seeing life goes by.
- A documentary about the crowd of people that commingle throughout the 3.5km of the Minhocão, an overpass in the central region of São Paulo, built during Brazil's military dictatorship.
- 2019TV Episode
- Free, intense, obscenely lucid. Hilda Hilst, daughter of a man who went mad, had an obsession with the human mind and an enormous fear of ending up like her father. She was, however, the personification of vibrancy and impulse. She lived her youth intensely, broke taboos in the way she loved men, circulated in the upper social and cultural circles of her time and, suddenly, in a moment of hyper lucidity, gave up everything to live off of her writing. She isolated herself in Casa do Sol for 30 years, wrote numerous books, countless poetry, received friends and expanded her intensity to another dimension, in which she tried to contact the dead. She left us books like Presságio (Omen), Kadosh, Fluxo Floema and A Obscena Senhora D (The Obscene Madame D).
- Conceição had to always write in her spare time, in the time between work and taking care of her home and her special-needs daughter. Born into a family of women who laundered clothing, she grew up in the favela called Pindura Saia in Belo Horizonte. She was the only black girl in her traditional public school and having access to books, she fell in love with them at an early age. She graduated, earned a PhD, wrote books and marked her place in the world of literature, breaking barriers and stigmas. Her books give first and last names to black women and their stories, such as in Insubmissas Lágrimas de Mulheres (Unsubmissive Tears of Women), Ponciá Vicêncio and Olhos D'Água (Eyes of Water). In Becos da Memória (Memory Alleys), she relives her past and gives wings to her "life of writing", as she commonly called her art.
- Daughter of Ceará's intellectual elite, she grew up as an only child surrounded by books and stories. She experienced the terrible droughts of the northeastern hinterlands up close, which inspired her first book, O Quinze (The Fifteen), written at the age of 15 under the light of a lantern. A columnist for decades at important Brazilian newspapers and a translator of classic novels, she didn't consider herself a writer, but rather a political animal. It is from her proximity to this world of politics that the book João Miguel emerges. She was the first woman be a part of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. She was an enthusiast of the feminist movement, as reflected in Memorial de Maria Moura, Dôra, Doralina and As Três Marias (The Three Marias). She did hands-on work on her farm, where she enjoyed her three favorite things: a porch, a hammock and a small lake.
- A catholic, mother of four from Minas Gerais, Adélia is a poet of the simple things in life. A graduate in Philosophy and a university professor, she never wanted to leave Divinópolis, her hometown, where should could hear the train whistle and write under divine inspiration. In this way books like Bagagem (Baggage), O Pelicano (The Pelican) and A Faca no Peito (Knife to the Chest) were born. She finally released her only work of fiction, O Homem da Mão Seca (The Man with the Dry Hand), after a long period of literary stagnation, during which she fought against depression and had to rescue her power to be enchanted by the beautiful things of life and the themes that always stimulated her: God, death and sex.
- In 1889, Anna Bretas was born in the heart of Brazil. A frail and sick girl, she was the daughter of extremely strict parents and would search for the refuge she needed to survive in the backyard of the home where they lived. It was also in the arms of an ex-slave turned nanny that she received the affection that she lacked from her parents. Anna adopted the name Cora Coralina when she began to write, but repressed by her family, she was only able to carry out her literature once she was old. Cora became a full-fledged confectioner, got married and had children. She moved to São Paulo, lived in the big city for decades, and when life permitted, she returned to Goiás to once again live in the Old House on the Bridge where she was born and finally began to write. She left her memories and thoughts in books such as Histórias da Casa Velha da Ponte (Stories of the Old House on the Bridge) and Meu Livro de Cordel.
- Shy, mysterious and sullen, Clarice always felt out of place. This characteristic marked her life in literature. She used to say that she identified with the wild, free and instinctive animals. The daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, she arrived to Brazil while just a baby and grew up in Recife, which deeply impacted her. She married an ambassador and moved many times throughout her life. She had insomnia, anxiety and felt everything very intensely. The world poured out from her and was reflected in books such as Perto do Coração Selvagem (Near to the Wild Heart), Laços de Família (Family Ties), Uma Aprendizagem ou o Livro dos Prazeres (An Apprenticeship or the Book of Delights). She loved being a mother, gave only one on-camera interview and kept correspondences by letter with her best friends around the world, in a deep exchange with those she loved.