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- Follows Victor, a police officer who dedicated his life to fight the narcotraffic war and to help his son Pedro, a drug addict who became one of the most wanted criminals in Brazil.
- Ubaldo receives an inheritance that will change his destiny for good. In the heart of the northeast desert, he'll become the leader of a pack of ruthless bandits, fulfilling the legacy of his biological father - a mythical "Cangaceiro".
- Follows the lives of 2 poor Brazilians and their schemes to get money and the consequences of their actions.
- Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck used to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.
- This is the fun story of the mischievous, adventurous and conquering Leléu and the dreamy Lisbela, who loves watching American movies and dreams of movie heroes.
- A group of naturists spend some time at Tambaba in Brazil.
- A cinematic series which investigates key biblical narratives from Creation to Christ. Biblical scenes and dynamic teaching lead through key truths about a God who loves humanity and is willing to pay the price for their rescue.
- A road movie about a German man who went to the Northeast of Brazil in 1942 to sell Aspirin.
- During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns to the farm. The film is divided in five short horror stories.
- The Brazilian back lands. Quaderna, an old clown and bard, narrates, from his cart in the middle of the street, the History of his Family, a bloody saga of Kings, Bandits, Mystics and Backlands Poets. Among his tragic-comic memories is the arrival of the Judge, a powerful Inquisitor from the coast, who summons him for an inquiry in which he is the suspect in the murder of his Goodfather and accused of taking part in a popular revolution. In jail, he writes this rhapsodic tale revealing his desire to establish a popular and literary "leftist monarchy", and thus assume the role of genius of the Brazilian race.
- In Campina Grande, State of Paraíba, Brazil, kids dream of playing soccer in a city called Berlin. They want to become a new Marcelinho Paraíba, a player for Hertha Berlin.
- A small group of artists travels the Brazilian backlands presenting a show. Upon arriving in a small village, they find an abandoned city with houses, a church, and a fountain spouting clean water, like a miracle of a biblical desert. Tired of and battered by their life as wanderers, the artists decide to settle in the village and start a new community, assigning themselves different roles from those they have played throughout their lives. This new arrangement, however, will reveal these artists the worst vices of the civilian life.
- A film starting from naught. With no prior research, no characters, no sites, nor specific themes, a film team arrive to the hinterland of Paraíba state in northeastern Brazil in search of people with stories to tell. In the village of São João do Rio do Peixe they come to Sítio Araçás, a rural community of 86 families, mostly relatives. With a girl from Araçás as mediator, the residents, in their majority, elderly, tell their life story, marked by popular catholicism, by a hierarchy, by a sense of family and honor - in a world fast disappearing.
- The real story of Quilombo Olho d'Água da Serra do Talhado, in the State of Paraíba, Brazil, which became institutionally isolated from the rest of the country. Quilombos were runaway slave communities in colonial Brazil.
- Dorotéia is swept away from the truck that was driving her and her family to São Paulo, and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her and help her friends as well.
- Documentary on the disappearance of certain crafts and professions in Brazil.
- When a teenager leaves Europe for the first time and discovers agroforestry in Brazil, he finds unexpected solutions to his doubts about the planet's future. And a call for a possible new way of life in syntony with the cycle of nature.
- During a group therapy session, a psychologist seeks to encourage her patients to progress in their lives, but will have to deal with the fact that she herself may be trapped in that situation.
- When an ocean-fascinated cowboy from the Brazilian backlands discovers that the farm where he has worked all his life will be sold, he abandons everything to finally get to know the sea.
- Documentary focusing on Brazilian female rural workers of the Northeast, specially in the swamp region of the State of Paraíba and the deserts and bushy area of the State of Pernambuco. They talk about their aspirations, lives, work and requests. Among the interviewed women, there are some Union leaders.
- After a long period of absence, Maria returns to her mother's house. She is determined to get out of the whirlwind that made her come back.
- Documentary about three blind sisters who sing for money in the streets of Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil
- Documentary on the life and work of José Lins do Rego (1901-1957), one of Brazil's greatest 20th century literary authors, writer of celebrated novels "Menino de Engenho", "Fogo Morto", "Moleque Ricardo", "Riacho Doce" and many more.
- A boy from a small town goes back in time to find a priest who founded the place.
- UFO Phenomenon documentary. More than 1500 miles traveled along Paraíba Brazil to meet ordinary people and document one of the most important secrets of human history. Mysterious lights and unidentified flying objects are seem during a long time and frequently at nights. A lot of similar stories from very different people from several separate cities suggests that glimpse of reality may be nearest the fiction, more than many would like to admit.
- The 14 months of field work and the consequent organization of a large oral and visual archive, understanding also that the information gathered from historical sources and oral anthropology was widing the invention of a constructed idea of past, I sought to clarify the distance between this past and the present of a community whose culture is invented and re-created as a sort of 'folkloric' representation progressively more open to the Catholic festivals, the school and the many tourists, the three social and institutional intermediaries constraining the idea of Potiguara culture to be updated. Crossing systematically historical documentation, chronicles, old maps and that huge archive build up from the interviews with chiefs, shamans, healers and several other candidates to the Potiguara political leadership, it was possible to understand the process of invention of their idea of land, social milieu, and mainly present-day cultural manifestations and practices that are preserved through a long term anthropological-historical process associating colonial legacy and its survival and political promotion in the present Potiguara cultural discourse.
- Leon finds a clue left by his missing father and departs in search to unravel the mystery about the past of his family.
- A travel documentary that portrays a bicycle tour with basketball games, a trip around 3400km by the Brazilian coast, from Rio de Janeiro to Fortaleza.
- Margareth has always dreamed of being an actress, and now believes she has found her greatest opportunity.
- Put an Argentinean, a Paraguayan and a Uruguayan in a 1970's Volkswagen Van and give them a challenge: Cross Brazil in 30 days. The prize? It's a surprise.
- The film deals with one of the many memories of peasant struggles in Brazil. It focused on the Northeast, especially around the sugarcane area, in the states of Pernambuco, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte.
- In an isolated house in the "sertão" of Brazil, a young woman is prepared by her grandmother, a former prostitute, to get married.
- Happiness is also inevitable.
- Faced with an imminent tragedy, a young woman finds herself challenged to embrace life and learn to make the most of the little time she has left.
- Taking calls from different people every day, João spends his hours thoroughly inside his apartment. In the middle of his routine, everything changes promptly at five in the afternoon.
- Leninha is forced to marry Paulo, a man she doesn't love. For that reason, she refuses to consummate the marriage. But she falls increasingly in love with her brother-in-law, Maurício.
- In the midst of an argument about a possible zombie apocalypse, two teenage friends dare each other to spend a night in a haunted fortress.
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- The film that will address the experience is the experience of a body, making that body do its best consciously.