brazil
Director: Jonas Carpignano
Stars: Pio Amato, Iolanda Amato, Koudous Seihon
In A CIAMBRA a small Romani community in Calabria Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14 he drinks smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the regions factions - the local Italians the African refugees...
Director: Walter Carvalho, Sandra Werneck
Stars: Daniel de Oliveira, Marieta Severo, Reginaldo Faria
The life and times of Cazuza Brazilian singer/poet/enfant terrible from his start with rock group Barão Vermelho to his death from Aids in 1990 showing his career love affairs and involvement with...
Director: Carlos Augusto de Oliveira
Stars: Anders W. Berthelsen, Bárbara Garcia, David Dencik
The story of one mans journey from Denmark to Brazil to get a...
Director: André Klotzel
Stars: Reginaldo Faria, Marcos Caruso, Petrônio Gontijo
Free adaptation of Machado de Assiss classic. The narrator is a rich dead man who tells us about his life and times making fun of...
Director: Adolfo Rosenthal
Stars: Gustavo Falcão, Adriana Garambone, Antonio Guerra
A couple accompany their sons piano concert. While classical music touches their hearts the suffering memories of the past - the poverty and alcoholism of the father - contrast with the victory and success of the...
Director: Adolfo Rosenthal
Stars: José Dumont, Giselle Itié, Aline Nepomuceno
A troubadour of todays times father of 9 children keeps 3 families in different locations in the interior of Bahia. One day he arrives in the city of Cachoeira and meets the most coveted woman in the region married to a...
Director: Glenda Nicácio, Ary Rosa
Stars: Valdinéia Soriano, Aline Brunne, Babu Santana
Five friends drink beer and chat at Violetas house. Bit by bit their stories of love loss and suffering are told revealing the acts of love and friendship that helped them through the hardest times of their...
Director: José Luis Rugeles
Stars: Damián Alcázar, Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Fabio Restrepo
Garcia has managed to accomplish his wedding promise to his wife Amalia: buy her a wretched farm outside the city which is far from his wifes dream. But life turns unexpectedly as he arrives home and finds Amalia...
Director: Antonio Carlos da Fontoura
Stars: Thiago Mendonça, Renato Russo, Laila Zaid
The life of Renato Manfredini Júnior Brazilian musician from his first involvement with music to his years in the punk rock band Aborto Alétrico to the formation of Legião Urbana in the rock scene of 70s/80s...
Director: N/A
Stars: Michel Joelsas, Catarina de Carvalho, Larissa Murai
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Director: Julia Rezende
Stars: Débora Falabella, Yara de Novaes, Gustavo Vaz
Young intense and authentic Dani just wants a normal life. However since she was a child she has been misaligned with her...
Director: André Ristum
Stars: Rodrigo Santoro, Cauã Reymond, Débora Falabella
A film about the reunion of a family broken by the pain and because of the pain can be reunited. An intense story told in a soft and sensitive way showing the search and dedication of a man rediscovering family and the love...
Director: Cris D'Amato
Stars: Karol Araujo, Zezeh Barbosa, Jonathan Dantas Barreto
In order to pursue her dream of studying fashion in Paris a country girl travels to Rio de Janeiro during Carnival to get support from a famous designer. She ends up finding love that could change her...
Director: Lázaro Ramos
Stars: Barbara Aniceto, Jenifer Ramos Antunes, Rhianna Barbosa
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Director: Henry Grazinoli
Stars: José Ignacio Avalos, Antonio ErmÃrio de Moraes Neto, Claudio Sassaki
OXFAM has launched a report showing that the richest 1% of the population owns the same wealth as the other 99%. What could be done to build a fairer world in such a social inequality? Beyond Profit brings stories about...
Director: Wagner de Assis
Stars: Renato Prieto, Fernando Alves Pinto, Rosanne Mulholland
The life of the doctor André Luiz in the spiritual city of Nosso...
Director: Fred Ouro Preto
Stars: Emicida, Zeca Pagodinho, Pabllo Vittar
Between scenes from his concert in São Paulos Theatro Municipal rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of Black Brazilian...
Director: Bruno Barreto
Stars: Sonia Braga, José Wilker, Mauro Mendonça
In a small city of Brazil a woman named Flor marries a man named Vadinho but once married she finds that he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking and he takes all of her money to gamble. After Vadinho dies Flor...
Director: N/A
Stars: LÃvia Inhudes, Micael, Regina Sampaio
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Director: Bruno Garotti
Stars: Giovanna Lancellotti, Danilo Mesquita, Fernanda Paes Leme
When the idealistic Paula resumes her work as a volunteer doctor in the Amazon Teto convinces his partners to establish his tomato cooperative in a village in the region. But to win back Paulas heart and save the company from...
Director: Torquato Joel
Stars: Cely Farias, Mano Fialho, Suzy Lopes
There are many ways to overcome the losses and drop-outs of childhood. Three boys reinvent the concept of family to face the traumas of their...
Director: Ian Abé, Gabriel Martins, Ramon Porto Mota
Stars: Miuly Felipe da Silva, Yurie Felipe da Silva, Alexandre De Sena
During the slavery period in Brazil a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later the places cruel past is still stained in its walls even if unnoticed until a series of strange events starts...
Director: Gregorio Gananian
Stars: Lanny Gordin, José Roberto Aguilar, Helena Ignez
In a delicate border between fiction and reality the surprising character of UnheardÂ-of Lanny Gordin projects himself between China his birthplace and Brazil where he lives and developed his career as a guitar player...
Director: Cao Hamburger
Stars: Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Daniela Piepszyk
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970 when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military...
Director: Cacau Rhoden
Stars: Alberto Ikeda, Alfredo Bello, Andrea Jabor
Pointing out the importance of maintaining a playful spirit which we all have when we are kids and society forces us to abandon in our adult lives Drops of Joy is a documentary that speaks widely about the idea that playing is...
Director: Ian Sbf
Stars: Fábio Porchat, Irene Ravache, Marcos Veras
Bruno Fabio Porchat is a young film editor who has just broke up his marriage with Regina and returned living in his mothers house. Drowned in deep sorrow something very weird happens in his life: people around him are...
Director: Mauro Lima
Stars: Babu Santana, Robson Nunes, Alinne Moraes
Biopic of Brazilian singer Tim Maia from his childhood in Rio de Janeiro until his death at age 55 including his passage by the US where he discovers a new style of music and is arrested for theft and drug...
Director: Dan Jackson
Stars: N/A
The residents of Rio de Janeiros largest slum seek justice for a local man they believe has been murdered by the police. In the face of brutal oppression together they start a protest movement that will change the course of...
Director: LuÃs Abramo, Paloma Rocha
Stars: N/A
The film appropriates and discusses Brazilian reality based on dialogues excerpts and scenes from Glauber Rochas visceral films and his desire to remove the masks from Brazils third world...