Movies

A journey through the memories of Brazilian filmmaker Afranio Vital. Between dreams and ruins, a life in cinema doesn’t end like this.

Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal...

By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by...

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.

In 1917, Rebeca flees from hunger and war in Poland and arrives in Brazil to reunite with her husband and start a new life. In Rio de Janeiro, she...

The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point,...

Brasília, 1986. Helena has barely settled in with her family in Brazil's futuristic capital when her husband leaves on a business trip....

The trajectory of Branca, a 3 years old Brazilian, and Marcos. They never met in life before seeing themselves on screen. Branca travels to Cuba, her...

Barra da Tijuca, West Side Zone of Rio de Janeiro. A wave of murderers plague the area. What starts off as a morbid curiosity for the local youth,...

Isabel is a very religious young woman whose life is transformed when she starts working with Enrico, a free-spirited and seductive man. As she tries...

Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife,...

A documentary about child gestures.

Duetto takes place in 1965 and tells the story of 18-year-old Cora, a Brazilian from an Italian family who, after losing her dad in a tragic car...

César Benjamin was arrested in August 1971 during student protests against the Brazilian military dictatorship. Although he was a juvenile, he...

A character, an actress and the passing of hours in a Holocaust interrogation. The film moves through the echoes of reality: representation,...

A woman moves back, from São Paulo to her hometown Rio de Janeiro, to support her husband's job. On their new residence, she forms an unlikely...

The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about the slums and samba.

A Brazilian actress travels to New York in search of her long-lost sister, piecing together fragments of the past while confronting the lasting scars...