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- A film documentary about the fate of the young actors of the award winning film City of God by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. It shows how their lives unfolded after the film's worldwide success.
- Silvana is a tired woman. The world no longer belongs to her, the invisible bothers her, the daily life oppresses her. What she wants sometimes is to abandon everything and go back home.
- A couple lives isolated in a country house at the top of a hill, full of natural beauties. Their routine is changed when an unusual group of mannequins seems to gain life, and start to watch over them.
- On a hot night in Rio de Janeiro, two men are in search of pleasure and violence. They invite two prostitutes to accompany them on this risky and intense adventure.
- In a gray city in the near future, religious sects and rats live on the prowl. It rains non-stop.
- Gatto and Barbot are lifelong companions for more then 40 years and have just moved to a big decayed and abandoned building downtown Rio de Janeiro, where they start to live and promote their dance company rehearsals. The difficulties of everyday life are merged to artistic creation and to their belief in the Orishas gods. Through dance they spread through the city, occupying their territories.
- December 1970: Brazil is under a military dictatorship. The Swiss ambassador in Brazil is kidnapped by a group of rebels. 40 days later they trade the ambassador by seventy political prisoners. The documentary find those prisoners 40 years later. Who are they? How they pass trough prison, torture, exile. How they manage to live?
- Sharing his daily life in confinement, the charismatic Brendo enacts his dreams and plans for the future. Through an affectionate and equally amusing dynamic, director and character envision journeys together until post-pandemic days. Through the portrait of a young man and his generation, and with the distinctive sensibility of his films "Esse amor que nos consome", (Olhar 13), e "Mais do que eu possa me reconhecer", (Olhar 15), Allan Ribeiro looks at the present-day of a crumbling country and reinvents horizons that we seldom see by way of screens and windows.
- Two brides wait in a church room while their marriages don't begin. But they are not anxious, as expected: they do act like ghosts in existential horror. As they wait to be called to the start of their respective ceremonies, they reflect on their relationships and lives.
- Ana, a Portuguese actress, has come to Rio de Janeiro to play the lead in a film about Carmen Miranda, the eccentric actress and singer who put Brazil on the map for its samba and carnival culture. The characters in the story come to life by alternating black-and-white and colour film, but they are at odds with each other as the myth clashes with everyday reality. Felipe Braganca and Catarina Wallenstein (who also plays the lead role) address a generation of Brazilians eagerly searching for a new identity. References to the Tropicalism art movement and the celebration of 'cultural cannibalism' - which arose in part as a form of resistance to the military junta of the late sixties - also play a prominent role in this tropical nightmare. (IFFR)
- TV Series
- In a world troubled between capital and hunger, free thinking about the importance of enjoyment and enjoyment as an act of resistance. No longer representation as a metaphor for the relationships sold by American cinema, but life lived as a metaphor for resistance to bad politics lived in the world.
- Rutger is an E.T whose mission is to spend 72 hours on Earth researching on human behavior. To avoid suspicion, he disguises himself as a "documentary filmmaker" and choose the city of Rio de Janeiro to give his first step.
- Benjamim Zambraia is a young drunk who wanders around the city and is sometimes treated with pampering and sometimes with a beating by his parents (Helena Ignez and Otávio Terceiro). As in Chico's book, the boy is obsessed with a big stone.
- Malditos Cartoonistas is a documentary (later turned into a TV series) directed by Daniel Garcia and Daniel Paiva. The documentary was released in 2010 during Rio Comicon, featuring interviews with 25 cartoonists, who spoke about various aspects of their work. Among the artists who participated in the 90 minutes of the film are Ziraldo, Jaguar, Nani, Angeli, Ota, Allan Sieber, Arnaldo Branco, and André Dahmer, among others. In 2012, testimonies recorded between 2007 and 2012 were gathered in a TV series of the same name, shown on Canal Brasil. The series had 13 episodes, each with a specific theme, such as the profession of cartoonists, the influence of the internet on cartoons and charges, and the work of women cartoonists, among other subjects. In 2011, the documentary won the HQ Mix Trophy in the "best production in other languages", and was awarded at the CineSul Festival and the Petrópolis National Film Festival. In 2013, the TV series won the HQ Mix Trophy again in the "best production in other languages" category.
- A soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art.
- Joana D'Arc, a former public school teacher in Rio de Janeiro, tries to recover her home, lost to the City Hall. The trajectory is shared by the pirate fisherman Pharaó, from Guanabara Bay.
- A love triangle is formed by two men and a woman in the Rio de Janeiro of the late 1970's. Paralel to the relationship situation, the poor community where they live go through a significant change when local authorities decide to remove the population with the intention of avoiding a possible tragedy.
- About the most famous brothel in Brazil during the XX Century.
- In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory.
- Vampiro Nicolau procura através dos séculos: Nina, seu grande amor.
- During carnival Flaviana lives a pretty difficult dilemma; how to disguise from her last night lover who refuses to get out of her shower?
- An encounter of novelist Lúcio Cardoso and poet Murilo Mendes haunting ghosts with their characters.
- A questioning about the wonders of the city of Rio de Janeiro and how the royal family came to the city in 1808 influenced its infrastructure, architecture and even the lifestyle of Rio.
- The documentary presents Marcos Medeiros, a character in Brazil's recent history. Marcos was a students movement leader in 1968. Arrested, tortured, impeached and exiled in Europe, Marcos started to dedicate himself to the cinema, having made short films with Chris Marker in France, a feature-length film with Glauber Rocha in Cuba and having later worked with Roberto Rossellini in Italy. Returning to Brazil, in the 80's when the political amnesty was conceded, Marcos starts a pioneer work in video, but does not find space to pursue his non-mainstream art. His inability to become integrated into a bourgeois society with no utopias leads Marcos to develop depression. He dies in 1997 following a long treatment at a psychiatric institution.
- Rafa is an autistic child, son of Miguel and Cris. Miguel had been away from home for years, after a fight. His meeting with his brothers brings up childhood traumas, all recorded by Rafa.
- Two complete strangers suddenly become best friends after a few drinks in a random bar downtown.
- Collective documentary about the protests that occurred in Rio de Janeiro between June 2013 and May 2014.