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- Shortly after failing to rescue a drowning man, Donato meets Konrad, a friend of the victim. They soon begin a relationship which seems doomed from the start, while Donato's past catches up with him.
- In order to get funds, a young woman living in the Northeast of Brazil decides to raffle her own body.
- Political documentary and personal memoir collide in this exploration into the complex truth behind the unraveling of two Brazilian presidencies.
- Alice is a 26-year old woman, who moves to São Paulo after her father's unexpected death. In this intense and eclectic city, she starts to live life to the fullest, discover pleasures, chalk up successes and fearlessly face her failures.
- Joca, a Brazilian boy of 13, and Basano La Tatuada a Paraguayan indigenous girl living on the border between the two countries, marked by the waters of the Rio Apa. Joca is in love with Basano and wants to do everything to win her love.
- A biography of the tragic life of one of Brazil's greatest soccer players, Heleno de Freitas.
- How to make a film in a country that is losing its identity? This is the question facing Fernando: a bankrupt, thirty-something-white-male filmmaker from Brazil.
- 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)
- COPA HOTEL tells the story of 33-year-old FREDERICO GONZALES (Miguel Thiré), a photographer from Rio who lived abroad for many years and comes back to take ownership over his deceased father's property: a hotel in Copacabana. All kinds of characters, from wealthy guests to boardwalk prostitutes, bring sex stories, humor, drama and romance to the "Copa Hotel", giving shape to a diverse and contemporary mosaic. Dealing with the hotel's desperate financial situation and a Rio de Janeiro that has changed completely, imposing a handful of its own rules would, at first sight, be the greatest challenges for this Brazilian with a foreigner's mindset. However, much like most contemporary men, Fred's main challenge is dealing with himself.
- Hosted by actress Andreia Horta, the show dives into Brazilian Film through its filmmakers, actors and crew, featuring 26 Brazilian movies of prominence each season.
- In 2008 a corpse was identified by the police with the birth certificate of the Brazilian writer João Paulo Cuenca in a invaded building in the historical and bohemian neighborhood of Lapa, downtown Rio de Janeiro. Inspired by this fact, "The Death of J.P. Cuenca" investigates the identity-theft case in a phantasmagoric city undergoing a lot of changes. If in fiction and crime news pages it is a cliché for living people to steal the identity of dead ones to start a new life, what we have here is the opposite case: someone who steals the identity of a living person to die in his place.
- In Minas Gerais hinterland Bastú has just lost her husband Feliciano. Without crying, she seeks shelter in everyday life and in her memories. But it is in the freedom of dreams and the news brought by her grandchildren that she makes her own transformation. Mary carries on her drum the joy and strength of her people. Its drumming echoes the sounds of other places and marks the presence of what cannot die.
- TV Series
- A collective film, coordinated by Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande (see also The Joy). They sent a letter of 'unease' to filmmakers in which they asked for love, utopia and explosions... The many-faceted and poetic result is wonderful to watch and balm to the soul. An experimental collective film lasting little more than an hour, compiled from 10 episodes by a total of 14 different young Brazilian filmmakers.
- Rio de Janeiro, 2016. The hottest summer in history. The city is preparing for the Olympic Games. Ana, a 32-year-old public defender, works in the defense of a community threatened with removal by the works of the Olympic Park. Meanwhile, she's been noticing purple fungus-like spots on her body. Strange things begin to happen in the city as well as in Ana's body. The temperature rises, creating a humid and suffocating atmosphere. The sultriness accumulates before giving way to heavy rain.
- A tale about youth and courage this film tells the story of Luiza,16 year old, who is just tired of hearing about the end of the world. One Christmas eve, her cousin João is shot in a poor neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro city, and disappears in the middle of the night. Some weeks after that, while Luiza is alone in her apartment, the girl will find a mysterious guest waiting for her in the living room: João, as a ghost, asking her to be hidden there.
- "I want to go back, but my brother is a ghost with no feet. I still dream of diamonds and blood. They see a black man, and think it's a lion." A short film about memories, stories and dreams of some of the African refugees from Oranienplatz in Berlin.
- After heartbreaks and professional disappointments on planet Earth, Julio and Clara decide to flee together into space.
- A little Portuguese-Brazilian song.
- A tale about the hammock and its forgotten use as a shroud.