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- A film documentary about the fate of the young actors of the award winning film City of God by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. It shows how their lives unfolded after the film's worldwide success.
- Silvana is a tired woman. The world no longer belongs to her, the invisible bothers her, the daily life oppresses her. What she wants sometimes is to abandon everything and go back home.
- Ana, a Portuguese actress, has come to Rio de Janeiro to play the lead in a film about Carmen Miranda, the eccentric actress and singer who put Brazil on the map for its samba and carnival culture. The characters in the story come to life by alternating black-and-white and colour film, but they are at odds with each other as the myth clashes with everyday reality. Felipe Braganca and Catarina Wallenstein (who also plays the lead role) address a generation of Brazilians eagerly searching for a new identity. References to the Tropicalism art movement and the celebration of 'cultural cannibalism' - which arose in part as a form of resistance to the military junta of the late sixties - also play a prominent role in this tropical nightmare. (IFFR)
- On a hot night in Rio de Janeiro, two men are in search of pleasure and violence. They invite two prostitutes to accompany them on this risky and intense adventure.
- In a world troubled between capital and hunger, free thinking about the importance of enjoyment and enjoyment as an act of resistance. No longer representation as a metaphor for the relationships sold by American cinema, but life lived as a metaphor for resistance to bad politics lived in the world.
- A love triangle is formed by two men and a woman in the Rio de Janeiro of the late 1970's. Paralel to the relationship situation, the poor community where they live go through a significant change when local authorities decide to remove the population with the intention of avoiding a possible tragedy.
- TV Series
- This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
- The documentary presents Marcos Medeiros, a character in Brazil's recent history. Marcos was a students movement leader in 1968. Arrested, tortured, impeached and exiled in Europe, Marcos started to dedicate himself to the cinema, having made short films with Chris Marker in France, a feature-length film with Glauber Rocha in Cuba and having later worked with Roberto Rossellini in Italy. Returning to Brazil, in the 80's when the political amnesty was conceded, Marcos starts a pioneer work in video, but does not find space to pursue his non-mainstream art. His inability to become integrated into a bourgeois society with no utopias leads Marcos to develop depression. He dies in 1997 following a long treatment at a psychiatric institution.
- Tells the life of Brazillian bandit, Luís Garcia. His crimes against state and rage against part of the population and real murders commited by him against priests, that shocked part of the population, making him a wanted man.
- December 1970: Brazil is under a military dictatorship. The Swiss ambassador in Brazil is kidnapped by a group of rebels. 40 days later they trade the ambassador by seventy political prisoners. The documentary find those prisoners 40 years later. Who are they? How they pass trough prison, torture, exile. How they manage to live?
- A soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art.
- A couple lives isolated in a country house at the top of a hill, full of natural beauties. Their routine is changed when an unusual group of mannequins seems to gain life, and start to watch over them.
- Sharing his daily life in confinement, the charismatic Brendo enacts his dreams and plans for the future. Through an affectionate and equally amusing dynamic, director and character envision journeys together until post-pandemic days. Through the portrait of a young man and his generation, and with the distinctive sensibility of his films "Esse amor que nos consome", (Olhar 13), e "Mais do que eu possa me reconhecer", (Olhar 15), Allan Ribeiro looks at the present-day of a crumbling country and reinvents horizons that we seldom see by way of screens and windows.
- Benjamim Zambraia is a young drunk who wanders around the city and is sometimes treated with pampering and sometimes with a beating by his parents (Helena Ignez and Otávio Terceiro). As in Chico's book, the boy is obsessed with a big stone.
- Questions about cinematographic language.
- On New Year's Eve six friends reunite to celebrate the new year. As the night progresses the revelry soon gives way to long-seated conflicts as a well as joys and hopes for a better future.
- Ivan lives with his grandmother in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Besides playing in the street, the boy usually throws toys in the cistern. Between games and moments of solitude, the boy goes through the difficult process of growth.
- On the 1st of March, 1982, Niteroi city makes history by hosting one of the greatest Brazilian cultural movements, the so-called 80's Rock Generation. The Fluminense FM Radio is on the air, known as "The damned" station which mixed irreverent ideas, daring takes, and creativity with playlists featuring music concebido of mainstream broadcasting spaces. Daring to believe in something new made the Maldita FM one of the most important underground means of communication, launching Brazilian rock bands and independent music, and creating a legion of fans.
- Joana D'Arc, a former public school teacher in Rio de Janeiro, tries to recover her home, lost to the City Hall. The trajectory is shared by the pirate fisherman Pharaó, from Guanabara Bay.
- Whether in the midfield, or in any other medium, consciousness is the method. This is demonstrated by A8, an audiovisual monologue in short film with Afonsinho, who knows how to see more than his teammates on the field: - "In order to have a game you need your opponent too". The heir of Zizinho and Didi's jersey number values individual talent, but doesn't ignore that, without the guy who does the heavy work, there is no solo performance. There is no owner of the ball in A8.
- Gatto 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.
- A film of the literary hallucinations and existential dreams of the character João, who is also José and Joyce, anthropologically enchanted by cinema in his two hours of life. Based on the work of James Joyce and Oswald de Andrade.
- Two complete strangers suddenly become best friends after a few drinks in a random bar downtown.
- Raising questions about a free publisher, the documentary roams this place freely, seeking its meaning and its functions.
- Montage film in which Lanna organizes her archived memories in the form of Super-8 images, captured in the 1970s.
- During carnival Flaviana lives a pretty difficult dilemma; how to disguise from her last night lover who refuses to get out of her shower?
- About the most famous brothel in Brazil during the XX Century.
- The story of Pilar's first year of life, during the pandemic. We follow her life in isolation, along with testimonials from people who collectively tell Pilar what that year 2020 meant.
- Rutger is an E.T whose mission is to spend 72 hours on Earth researching on human behavior. To avoid suspicion, he disguises himself as a "documentary filmmaker" and choose the city of Rio de Janeiro to give his first step.
- Two brides wait in a church room while their marriages don't begin. But they are not anxious, as expected: they do act like ghosts in existential horror. As they wait to be called to the start of their respective ceremonies, they reflect on their relationships and lives.
- Focusing on the real-imaginary doubt, the film delves into the role of the stage actor alongside the set-up of Sam Shepard's 'Mente Mentira'.