Brazil

Schizophrenic tramp performs outrageous acts in the streets of Salvador, and in the end tries to fulfill his ultimate dream: to fly over the city, as a superhero would.Read More »

Synopsis:
A documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances (with plenty of nudity) brazenly take on Brazil’s hetero-normative machismo.Read More »

Dione is a mysterious young man living with a family in a rural and remote place. The quietness of the region is disturbed when a rich landowner tries to buy the small property where Dione and the family live.Read More »

Synopsis:
When ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence between two rival families.Read More »

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ASSUNTINA OF AMÉRIKAS: an opera, a musical one, a comedy, a colored gesture of creative freedom. Assuntina is sought by the camera not like a woman-history, bearer certain political ideas. Besides, fidelity inexists the only one woman’s certain image. And instead of the true woman (Sara, of “Terra em Transe”), we have an object bitter, superficial, closed in the search of her identity.Read More »

This is one of Ivan Cardoso’s first films – shot totally in Super 8mm! It’s a parody of the old-age vampire story, but this time Nosferato (Torquato Neto) decides to feed on the bikiniclad beauties lying on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro (land of the string bikini, mind you!) Lots of laughs, skin and an ingenius use of locations!Read More »

Synopsis
An expressionist, at time semi-surrealist account of a Brazilian family over the last 40 years, in the historical impasse which the non-revolutionary classes could not overcome. A succession of political plots, melodramatic upheavals, and betrayals capture the violence, color, and atavistic strangeness of an opressed, stagnant civilization and its victims.Read More »

Imdb wrote:
Heleno and Cláudia reverse the roles traditionally reserved for men and women in marriage. He dedicates himself to domestic chores, feels like a sexual object, and in the club defends the rights of men. On the other hand, she is a unscrupulous executive who cannot see a boy without thinking of a new adventure. Their lives are shaken by the adultery of Claudia with Heleno’s friend Almir, who prostitutes himself to raise his son after his wife leaves.Read More »

As condition to inherit some assets, three women must turn three gay men into their lovers. Fighting for the money are also a charitable nun, a gay lawyer and a dissolute woman.Read More »