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- DirectorJosé PadilhaFelipe LacerdaStarsSandro do NascimentoRodrigo PimentelLuiz Eduardo SoaresOn June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator's background.
- DirectorPetra CostaStarsLi AnElena AndradePetra CostaElena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes an actress and goes to New York in search of Elena. She only has a few clues about her: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary and letters. At any moment Petra hopes to find Elena walking in the streets in a silk blouse. Gradually, the features of the two sisters are confused; we no longer know one from the other. When Petra finally finds Elena in an unexpected place, she has to learn to let her go.
- DirectorMarcelo MasagãoStarsFranz ReicheltA fascinating and poetical collage of countless images from the 20th century with the purpose of revealing matters of life and death during the era and its many social, cultural and political transformations, with the director making several statements on several issues, combining fact and fiction to compose his powerful mosaic of images along with the magnificent music of Wim Mertens. A true work of art that dares to make several questions about the human condition, its contradictions and ironies.
- DirectorJuliano Ribeiro SalgadoWim WendersStarsSebastião SalgadoWim WendersLélia Wanick SalgadoThe life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
- DirectorRoger Ross WilliamsStarsOwen SuskindCornelia SuskindRon SuskindA coming-of-age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood.
- DirectorCarlos NaderStarsEduardo CoutinhoIt is time to turn the tables and see the greatest interviewer of Brazilian cinema in front of the cameras. "Eduardo Coutinho, 7 de Outubro" is a documentary that puts the filmmaker in front of his own team.
- 20184 epsTV-MA7.5 (31K)TV Mini SeriesStarsTrey BorzillieriJerry ClarkJason WickThe extraordinary story of the "pizza bomber heist" and the FBI's investigation into a bizarre collection of suspects.
- DirectorMarcos PradoStarsEstamiraDocumentary about Estamira, a 63-year-old woman who's been working for over 20 years at a landfill in Rio de Janeiro. Schizophrenic, but very charismatic, she's the leader of a small community of old people living off garbage and has a very lyrical and philosophical attitude towards life.
- DirectorAstra TaylorStarsSlavoj ZizekA look at the controversial author, philosopher and candidate for Slovenian presidency: Slavoj Zizek.
- DirectorJosé PadilhaA documentary on three families struggling to survive in Brazil.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsBenedita da SilvaMilton GonçalvesFerreira GullarAn essay on the imagination, cultural identity and prejudice against black people, focusing on the work of Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos, salt mine worker and semi-illiterate black artist who has built, in São Pedro d'Aldeia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Casa da Flor (House of the Flower), made of objects found in the trash.
- DirectorAlison KlaymanStarsArianaDelaneyJasper Holt-TezaEvery era gets the drug it deserves. In America today, where competition is ceaseless from school to the workforce and everyone wants a performance edge, Adderall and other prescription stimulants are the defining drugs of this generation.
- DirectorJoão JardimStudent testimonials, whether from public or private schools, about fears and anxieties in the school environment.
- DirectorHelvecio RattonThe infamous Hospital Colonia de Barbacena (Barbacena Colony Hospital), biggest mental institution of Brazil, once compared to concentration camps of Auschwitz ,opens its gates to a production crew during the country's dictatorship period. This short documentary depicts how mental patients were treated inside the institution and how anyone could end up an intern there for no plausible reason.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsJim CarreyDanny DeVitoGerry BeckerThe life and career of legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.
- DirectorAsif KapadiaStarsAmy WinehouseMitch WinehouseMark RonsonArchival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of the life and career of British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse.
- DirectorLygia BarbosaEliane BrumStarsLaerte CoutinhoEliane BrumRafael CoutinhoAfter living as a man for nearly 60 years, Laerte Coutinho, one of Brazil's most brilliant cartoonists, introduces herself to the world as a woman.
- DirectorFernando SchultzPaulo SchultzStarsCarlos BurleMonja CoenMário Sérgio CortellaA film about self-knowledge and the pursuit of happiness.
- DirectorAndrucha WaddingtonStarsMaria BethâniaCaetano VelosoCanô VelosoDocumentary about singer Maria Bethânia's 60th birthday celebration in her hometown, Santo Amaro da Purificação, and her performance on a show in Salvador.
- DirectorJustin WebsterStarsJuan Gabriel VásquezIsidro AlvarezJon Lee Anderson'Gabo, The Magic of Reality' is a story about the incredible power of human imagination, which follows the interwoven threads of Gabriel García Márquez's life and work - "Gabo" to all of Latin America - with the narrative tension of an investigation.
- DirectorKim BartleyDonnacha O'BriainStarsHugo ChávezPedro CarmonaJesse HelmsIn April 2002, an Irish film crew is making a documentary about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, when a coup from the opposition is made.
- DirectorWalter CarvalhoLeonardo GudelStarsRoberto CarlosPaulo CoelhoDaniel de OliveiraThe film tells the story of Raul Seixas, a Brazilian rock legend. The documentary unveils by rare archival images, meeting with family, conversations with artists, producers and friends, the trajectory of the artist, who died in 1989.
- DirectorJean-François BrientA mesmerizing documentary about the origins and causes of the widespread unbalances of modern West societies. The unchallenged victory of the free market utopia turned into an all-engulfing nightmare, remodeling ways of life and shaping them into what looks more and more as a frightening view of a dystopian narrative.
- DirectorJoão Moreira SallesStarsSantiago Badariotti MerloDocumentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for some strange reason, the director felt he couldn't edit it and put it aside. In 2005 he remembers the unfinished film and starts its edition.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsEduardo CoutinhoElizabeth TeixeiraFerreira GullarA filmmaker returns to Northeast Brazil after twenty years to resume his film (a profile of assassinated peasant leader João Pedro Teixeira) which was shut down by a right-wing military coup in 1964.