Queer representation in Brazil
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- DirectorDaniel RibeiroStarsGhilherme LoboFabio AudiTess AmorimLeonardo is a blind teenager searching for independence. His everyday life, the relationship with his best friend Giovana, and the way he sees the world change completely with the arrival of Gabriel.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsLázaro RamosMarcelia CartaxoFlavio BauraquiLoose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.
- DirectorMarcelo LaffitteStarsSimone SpoladoreIgor CotrimSérgio BezerraIn Copacabana, lesbian photographer Elvis is hired to deliver pizzas in the night shift on her motorcycle. Her first assignment is a delivery to the transvestite hairdresser Lady Madonna.
- DirectorWalter CarvalhoSandra WerneckStarsDaniel de OliveiraMarieta SeveroReginaldo FariaThe life and times of Cazuza, Brazilian singer/poet/enfant terrible, from his start with rock group "Barão Vermelho", to his death from Aids, in 1990, showing his career, love affairs, and involvement with drugs.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsWagner MouraClemens SchickFred LimaShortly 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.
- DirectorHector BabencoStarsWilliam HurtRaul JuliaSonia BragaA gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsGlória PiresMiranda OttoTracy MiddendorfA chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
- DirectorHilton LacerdaStarsMaria de Jesus BaccarelliJesuíta BarbosaAriclenes BarrosoThe romance between a 18-year-old soldier and the cultural ringleader of an anarchist cabaret.
- DirectorPapu CurottoStarsIgnacio RogersEsteban MasturiniJoaquín ParadaTwo boyhood chums, separated soon after sexually awakening together, re-meet as young men with unspoken sexual tensions lying between them.
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsTarcísio MeiraNey LatorracaLídia BrondiWhen a pedestrian is hit by a bus, simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the body in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. The opportunist scum photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, they accuse Arandir of homosexuality. Further, they say that the victim was his lover and Arandir killed him out of jealousy. Meanwhile, his father-in-law Aprígio who does not like him goes to the suburban village to tell his daughters, Arandir's beloved wife Selminha and her sister Dália, that Arandir is at the police station. The next morning, when the newspapers are distributed, Arandir is in the headline and later is humiliated in his work and in the village where his family lives. While Amado and Cunha manipulate the event and witnesses, common bigoted people believe that Arandir is gay and a killer, with tragic consequences.
- DirectorCaio SóhStarsEmilio DantasRemo RochaPaloma DuarteWhat if life blindsided destiny? What if happiness was found in the unlikeliest of places? When do we allow ourselves to embrace the new without fear of letting go of the past? Gil (Emílio Dantas) is a twenty year old young man that questions himself and the world. He is an orphan, raised by his aunt Leila (Paloma Duarte) and his uncle César (Roberto Bomtempo). His lifestyle is fulfilled by his guitar, poetry and alcohol, generating a family war that causes Gil to run away from home causing him to leave behind all his belongings, security and the only love that he had till then, the love of his aunt Leila. With his guitar on his back, without a destiny, money or the support of friends, Gil meets Otávio (Remo Rocha), a music producer that will change his destiny forever.
- DirectorVera EgitoStarsAna CañasLucas BrilhanteLígia CortezLiving on the same floor of a building in the city of São Paulo, Micaela (Renata Gaspar), Diego (Thiago Pethit) e Júlia (Maria Laura Nogueira) share their experiences, failures and achievements.
- DirectorSandra WerneckStarsMurilo BenícioCarolina FerrazEmílio de MelloFifteen year ago, Carlos went to the cinema to meet Júlia, his university colleague with whom he was in love. She never showed up. Carlos was left waiting in the lobby alone. While he waits, something happens which will change his life. A scene, an encounter, an unfinished sentence... Something insignificant, but which will determine the character's life. Fifteen years later, we follow three completely different versions of Carlos's life. In one, he is a man divided between the stability of a secure life in a lukewarm marriage, and the growing desire to live a great love affair. In the second, he is homosexual and places passion above all else. In the third possible life, Carlos is a man who hasn't yet discovered love, and lives through successive disastrous relationships in search of the perfect woman. One of them is his real life. Another is not his life. And a third is the life he'd like to lead. Which is his true life ?
- DirectorFilipe MatzembacherMarcio ReolonStarsMateus AlmadaMaurício BarcellosElisa BritesTwo boys on the edge of adulthood find themselves exploring their relationship.
- DirectorGuto ParenteUirá dos ReisStarsDeynne AugustoUirá dos ReisDario OliveiraAmianto lives isolated in her own fantasy world, inhabited by her delusions and unbridled hope, where her ingenuity and her melancholy coexist hand in hand. After feeling abandoned by her love (The Boy), Amianto finds shelter in the presence of her dead friend, Blanche, that will protect her against her pain - at least as far as she can. Her inner universe collides with the reality of a world that does not accept her, a world to which she doesn't belong and that invariably she comes back with her playful delusions, mixing reality and fantasy. With the help of her Fairy Godmother, Amianto gathers strength to continue living in the hope of being happy someday.
- DirectorAnna MuylaertStarsNaomi NeroDaniel BotelhoDani NefussiAfter discovering the truth about being stolen by the woman he thought was his mother as a child, Pierre (AKA Felipe) must deal with the consequences of his mother's actions and must try to cope with his biological family.
- DirectorDácio PinheiroStarsCláudia WonderLeão LoboSérgio MambertiThe film's purpose is to make known questions about pop culture, behavior, politics and sexual diversity. Through the main character, the transvestite Claudia Wonder, we will follow what happened in the city of Sao Paulo in the 70's, 80's, 90's and 2000's. She broke through prejudice and were able to take the transvestites away from the police columns to the cultural pages of newspapers and magazines, participating in many productions of the Brazilian Erotic Cinema, being part of a punk band and also participating in many plays, as much as how she got involved in the intellectual and political field becoming an important representative in governments organizations of assistance and protection to homosexuals in the spotlight of prejudice.
- DirectorMarcelo CaetanoStarsKelner MacêdoLucas AndradeWelket BunguéThe summer is coming and Elias has been dreaming of the sea a lot. In the factory where he works, his responsibilities increase as the holiday season approaches. After one more night working overtime, Elias and the workers decide to go out and have some beer. That is when new encounters and desires open up to his horizons.
- DirectorMonique GardenbergStarsLee TaylorJalooErasmo CarlosMarked by losses and mismatches, José's eccentric family seek to be happy while locked in Paraíso Perdido, a nightclub that has stopped in time, where they sing popular romantic music.
- DirectorAluizio AbranchesStarsJúlia LemmertzFábio AssunçãoJean Pierre NoherTwo brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
- DirectorAllan RibeiroDouglas SoaresStarsWilson AssisLauro BonfimJuka GoulartGatto 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.
- DirectorMalu De MartinoStarsAna Paula ArósioMurilo RosaNatália LageJulia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke up, Julia is thrown into a desperate, painful process. Her life and her values have been tinged with unbearable melancholy and her life's measure seems reduced to out-of-focus fragments of her memories. Her inner turmoil and conflicts hamper a process now made necessary - that of readapting to her new life. It is impossible for her to disguise her pain when she attempts to narrate emotions.
- DirectorNando OlivalStarsGabriel GodoyVictor MendesJuliana SchalchThree young people arrive from different parts of the country to go to college in Sao Paulo. On their first day there, a strange and intense attraction unites them. Together, they rent an apartment and begin living together, in close quarters. Sharing kisses and fond embraces. They exchange words of endearment with the naturalness of ordering a sandwich at a diner. They threaten to break up and the next moment they are all laughing together again. College days however soon come to an end and, with each having different paths to trail, separation is imminent. And consequently, their gestures, words and attitudes take on a new weight. Touching each other now takes on a new significance. Words of love are weighed down by consequences.
- DirectorBruno SafadiStarsMariana XimenesJiddu PinheiroLeandra LealA young couple, Pedro and Antônia, have their relationship weakening after meeting Luana. Romance, seduction, fear and anguish from the future are established in this story of liquid love.
- DirectorMariana BastosEsmir FilhoStarsCaroline AbrasAndré AntunesClemens SchickCaio and Mari are two young adults whose relationship is beyond any definition. Throughout 10 years, the plot transits among 3 striking moments in which their desires are in conflict and their relationship is put to the test.
- DirectorNeville de AlmeidaStarsCláudia RaiaLouise CardosoAlexandre FrotaIn Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes. The first one is about a wealthy woman, Márcia, bored with her marriage, who decides to spend a couple of days alone in her house in Petrópolis. When her best friend Renata unexpectedly arrives to stay with her, they get drunk and something tragic happens. The second one is about a loser who arrives home upset and drunk, and kills his family. The third one is about a tragic repressed lesbian relationship. The last one is about a man addicted to stealing women's underwear.
- DirectorMarco DutraJuliana RojasStarsIsabél ZuaaMarjorie EstianoMiguel LoboClara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans.
- DirectorJeremias Moreira FilhoStarsLetícia SabatellaSelma EgreiGraça AndradeHelô has a troubled relationship with her mother, Ruth, and is trapped in an unhappy marriage. Everything changes when she meets Leda, who she falls in love with and begins an exciting romance.
- DirectorIvam CabralRodolfo García VázquezStarsEduardo ChagasPhedra de CórdobaSilvio EduardoDevising a fantastic universe, in which ancient make-up and costumes share the screen with contemporary elements such as limousines, helicopters and mobile phones, 'Philosophy in the Boudoir' intends to blur the borders of realism and make the spectator get closer to timeless issues. The boudoir inside an industrial plant brings an aggressive aesthetics to the teachings and orgies. The takes are developed in different ways. The franzy of orgies has a fast editing, whilst philosophical moments are long sequence shots. By bringing to the contemporary world a 200-year-old romance, we intend to trigger questions about the real moral changes in Western society. It is also interesting to highlight Sade's feminism. His female heroes are independent women, masters of their own sexual drive. At last, due to the solid theatrical background of the artists, the film was inevitably contaminated by unusual procedures (according to the film tradition), contributing to new possibilities of exchange between arts.
- DirectorWalter Hugo KhouriStarsNorma BengellOdete LaraMário BenvenuttiTwo friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved, as much bitterness is revealed in their conversation and attitudes, uncovering their anguish and deeper feelings, and the emptiness of their lives.
- DirectorJoão Silvério TrevisanStarsFernando BeniniJean-Claude BernardetMarcelino BuruA countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who thinks he's Carmen Miranda, a black king, a fallen black angel, a priest, two whores, a pregnant cowboy, among others.
- DirectorAntônio CalmonStarsAndré de BiaseAngelina MunizZaira ZambelliToquinho is a young man living in Marechal Hermes, a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, together with his widow mother and a younger sister. Although he is poor, he is also ambitious, and wants to change his life. He spends all his time on the beach, at Arpoador, Ipanema, where he dreams to become a famous surfer. Besides, he usually finds Patricia there, a rich and liberated young woman, whom he likes a lot. To impress Patricia and satisfy some of her wishes, he lets himself be seduced by André, a gay guy who, in return for his sexual favors, promises him a trip to Hawaii for a surf championship.
- DirectorSergio BianchiStarsLélia AbramoAdriani BacchiCirce BernardesAt the height of the military dictatorship, an abandoned mansion in the center of São Paulo is occupied by militants, hippies, maniacs, homosexuals, punks, artists and poets, as well as immigrants from different parts of the world.
- DirectorRoberto MoreiraStarsMaria Clara SpinelliSílvia LourençoDanni CarlosThe story of three young people in search of love amid the frantic pace of São Paulo. What will a relationship unearth of their unspoken past, and can they dare hope for a happy future?
- DirectorLaís BodanzkyStarsFrancisco MiguezDenise FragaFiukMano has to deal with adolescence dilemmas and his family destruction, after his father leaves their house.
- DirectorMarcos PradoStarsNathalia DillLuca BianchiLívia de BuenoTwo girlfriends visit a big Brazilian beach festival and decide to just let go. They enjoy the music, booze, drugs and on one steamy afternoon even each other. They also meet a young man and things can't be better. Can this paradise last?
- DirectorAlexandre CarvalhoStarsTchaka O'HaraLuis VazMaurício EvannsA group of friends make a pact together to come out of the closet after one of them is assaulted during São Paulo's Gay Parade.
- DirectorGustavo VinagreStarsGustavo VinagreBruno D'UgoHugo GuimarãesIn a middle class neighborhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what about love? Is love just a construction?
- DirectorHelena IgnezStarsRoberto AlencarAriclenes BarrosoMário BortolottoA film within a film. Young directors, prodigal adolescents, are filming "The Exhibitionist" in the middle of a farm in an paradisiacal region. Baron, performed by Ney Matogrosso, lives in the farm where his marriage to the dancer Marcelo will be celebrated. The film poetically investigates the Brazilian soul, placing the Amazon as the epicenter of the world, reflecting on existential issues, legitimizing the right to sexual freedom and individuality. A philosophical and musical film.
- DirectorAllan FitermanStarsCláudia AbreuEduardo MoscovisVera HoltzThe taxi driver Berenice is under a family crisis with her male chauvinist husband and her son, whom is discovering his sexual identity. The murder of a transgender at Copacabana beach makes her start an investigation on her own, what turns her world upside down.
- DirectorAlexandre MorattoStarsChristian MalheirosTales OrdakjiJayme RodriguesAfter his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief.
- DirectorPedro DiogenesGuto ParenteStarsYuri YamamotoDemick LopesSamya De LavorIn a bar called Inferninho, the staff dream of escape. A handsome sailor with a dream of finding home arrives.
- DirectorCláudio AssisStarsIrandhir SantosJuliano CazarréMatheus NachtergaeleZizo (Irandhir Santos) é um poeta inconformado e anarquista, que banca a publicação de seu tablóide. Em seu mundo próprio, onde o sexo é algo tão corriqueiro quanto fumar maconha, ele conhece Eneida (Nanda Costa). Zizo logo sente um forte desejo por Eneida, mas, apesar de seus constantes pedidos, ela se recusa a ter relações sexuais com ele. Isto transtorna a vida do poeta, que passa a sentir falta de algo que jamais teve.
- DirectorMarcelo BarbosaAude Chevalier-BeaumelStarsIndianara SiqueiraWescla VasconcelosBiancka FernandesIndianara fights for the survival of transgender people in Brazil and braces up for one last battle.
- DirectorArmando PraçaStarsMarco NaniniDenise WeinbergDemick LopesPedro, a 70-year-old gay nurse, is taking care of Daniela, his ailing transgender friend. In order to find her a vacant hospital bed, he decides to help an arrested and wounded criminal to escape.