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A semi-documentary on the people of Rio de Janeiro. The camera follows boys from a hillside shanty town who sell peanuts at Copacabana, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and a soccer game. Various subplots, involving characters they meet along the way, are interspersed.Read More »
The history of Partido-Alto, a musical subgenre derived from Samba, with roots in the batucada of Bahia.Read More »
In the interior of São Paulo, an apparently normal family hides unexpected secrets. One of the members makes sex her only weapon to get what she wants in this plot full of revenge, prejudice and contestation of values.Read More »
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Augusto Matraga is a violent agressive farmer who after being betrayed by his wife and trapped by several enemies is bitten up and left for dead. He is rescued by a couple of humble small farmers who nurse him for a long time until he is well again. Influenced by the couple Augusto Matraga turns to a religiosity a long time neglected, believing he is atoning for past sins. Then he starts a long penitent life while waiting for his hour and chance. As time goes on he comes strong again but he only realize this after meeting Joaozinho Bem Bem, a famous chief of “jaguncos” who sees in him the violent man he was. Augusto Matraga starts a fight between his violent nature, his hidden desire of vengeance and the mysticism and goodness which is also part of him. This conflict lasts until the moment when his hour and his chance comes, the hour and chance to fight, to struggle an to use his strength and courage in the name of faith and humanity.Read More »
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Paloma, a farm worker, wants a traditional wedding in a church with her boyfriend Zé. The local priest refuses her request. But Paloma, a transgender woman, will fight back for her dream.Read More »
The story unfolds from the arrival of young Belinda and her friends, a group of university students looking for leisure, to a camping area at the seaside. In another tent, the family of Adilson, a young man who is interested in Belinda, tries to get close to the group by offering help in case of any eventuality. During an evening stroll, Belinda and Adilson, attend a religious ritual, in which the fate of the girl is definitely marked. Meanwhile, a dangerous bandit and his cronies manage to escape from a prison where they serve time and seek refuge in the camping. The arrival of the gang unleash scenes of sex and violence.Read More »
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The story behind one of the worst radiological disasters to ever happen in Brazil, in 1987.Read More »
She managed to save from the fire a stack of photographs and a diary with handwritten phrases. These words and faces are the only traces left by the man she once knew and loved. Crossing mountains and roads, she tries to retrace his steps.Read More »
How are the traveler and the exile different? How shall we think of memories created in exile? This are the axis upon which Days in Sintra rotates. The film is a poetic account of the exile of Glauber Rocha in Sintra, Portugal, in which photographs serve as a mnemonic guide to the search for traces of the filmmaker’s passage through the city. Gaitán’s film about her longtime partner Rocha is built on the border of a fragmented, involuntary, unfinished, and precarious memory.Read More »