Brazil

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A lightning rod dispatch from contemporary—and maybe future—Brazil, this astonishing mix of documentary and speculative fiction takes place in the nearly postapocalyptic environs of the Sol Nascente favela in Brasilia. Here, fearsome outlaw Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado) leads an all-female gang that siphons and steals precious oil from the authoritarian, militarized government, while her sister, Léa (Léa Alves da Silva), recently released from prison, is brought into the criminal enterprise.Read More »

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Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on a shelter controlled by scientists. After an incident inside the shelter, a group of rebellious scientists defy their leadership when they find a good possibility of returning to the surface.Read More »

A meeting with music, composer, poet and sociologist Negro Léo. He gives his thoughts on the development of music, Brazilian and international politics, the rise of neo-pentecostal evangelical churches and obsession over social media, in parallel with his own life story.Read More »

Plot Outline: First film of Brazil’s leading pop composer. Fragmented style, kind of patchwork of interviews with his friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts.Read More »

Daniel is an exemplary policeman, but he ends up making a mistake and becoming suspended. With nothing keeping him in his hometown, he goes to visit his online love interest.Read More »

A film loosely inspired by the work Catatau, by Paulo Leminski. The poet imagined a historical hypothesis: “And if René Descartes had come to Brazil of Maurício de Nassau?”. Played by João Miguel, the character goes through the tropics, wild and contemporary, under the influence of hallucinogens, investigating issues of geometry and optics in front of a world utterly strange.Read More »

It took four months to be released by the federal censorship. Over 14 million people have paid to watch this spectacular movie in theaters. This is the absolute record of grossing domestic film of all time. Sold for more than fifty countries. Giselle tells the saga of an urban family, whose moral and physical decay, it becomes uncontrollable. Giselle, a girl-woman-head 15 year old, farmer’s daughter, returning from a stint in Europe, rekindle the sexual clearance by his aunt niece. Exposes the undisguised delivering his young cousin to the fantasies of pleasure and ignites the fury of voluptuous farm foreman, so that nothing, absolutely nothing, can curb these desires and sinful unusual characters. Giselle, a girl who goes mad men and women, the film is more categorical the erotic genre. Must.Read More »

Plot: In Moscou, Eduardo Coutinho accompanies Grupo Galpão, directed by Enrique Diaz, in the rehearsals of the play “The Three Sisters”, from Chekhov. The film consists in fragments of workshops, improvisations and rehearsals of the play.Read More »

A terrible monster threatens the beach season: the cod from Guinea.
To catch the fish, local authorities count on the expertise of a Portuguese oceanographer, a fearless fisherman and baits made with Amália Rodrigues’s records.Read More »