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- DirectorDaniel FilhoStarsMarcos PalmeiraMalu MaderLorena Comparato"Boca de Ouro" (Golden Mouth) tells the story of a feared and respected mob boss, an almost mythological figure of Madureira (a neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) during the 60's. His ambition, lovers and sins arouse the curiosity of journalist Caveirinha, who seeks an ex lover to collect material for a story about Boca's life.
- DirectorCarlos Alberto RiccelliStarsBruna LombardiGraziella MorettoJuca de OliveiraAs the stars move through the sky of São Paulo five people ask what will become of their dreams. In the struggle to break their isolation they discover the transforming power of solidarity.
- DirectorCamila FreitasStarsNatalina Vó CândidaWilmar P.C. FernandesValtenir GomesAn insight into the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement's everyday routine, which is divided up between tilling the land, political activism and talk of what a better future might look like.
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsPaulo GracindoCristina AchéPaulo GuarnieriRio de Janeiro police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he tracks a serial killer of taxi drivers, he also seeks his estranged daughter, Sandra, whom he had thrown out of the family home when she adopted a promiscuous teenage lifestyle. Lives intersect when the serial killer, Toninho, a young man of unsavoury connections, befriends Sandra, now an exotic dancer and prostitute living and working in the seamy underside of late 1970s Rio. Theirs is an unstable relationship, built on unmet emotional need, lived in the shadow of her father's pursuit.
- DirectorCecilia da FonteMarcelo PedrosoLaércio PortelaThe arrival of the Suape port and industrial complex brought business opportunities for large construction companies and their planned "high standard" neighborhoods in contrast to the life in the periphery and rural area of Cabo de Santo Agostinho (PE), the most vulnerable city for the young black men in Brazil.
- DirectorVladimir SeixasStarsThayná TrindadeJefferson LuisPriscila RezendeThe Brazilian malls' protests have mobilized thousands of black people. Follow the lives of three characters and discover the dreams of a generation that has found new ways of dealing with violence.
- DirectorLauro EscorelStarsAlex BaradelLuiz Carlos BarretoMaureen BisilliatA film about remarkable moments in the History of Brazilian Photography, built through the eyes of Lauro Escorel. It also reflects on the impact of digital photography on contemporary society.
- DirectorGlauber RochaStarsRada RassimovGiulio BrogiGabriele TintiA Latin-American insurgent and a black leader join forces to free an African nation. But they'll have to face a German mercenary aided by an American agent and a Portuguese advisor, all working for a mysterious woman.
- DirectorAly MuritibaStarsAntonio SaboiaPedro FasanaroThomas AquinoDaniel 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.
- DirectorRené SampaioStarsAlice BragaGabriel LeoneOtávio AugustoOn an unusual day, a series of coincidences lead Eduardo to meet Monica at a party. Curiosity is aroused between the two and, despite not being alike, they fall madly in love. This love needs to mature and learn to overcome differences.
- DirectorMarcelo GomesStarsKika SenaVinicius Batista da SilvaPatricia DawsonPaloma, 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.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaSeverino CavalcantiTony CurtisDowntown Recife's classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that's just part of the story.
- DirectorRenato BarbieriStarsDira PaesMatheus AbreuFlavio BauraquiIn the '90s, a mother looks for her missing son and finds farms with slave labor practices in the Amazon region.
- DirectorAna JohannStarsClarissa KisteIrandhir SantosLaís CristinaRenata lives isolated in the countryside with her teenage daughter and her husband, conceiving fear as a common feeling. The arrival of a stranger awakens in her the desire for all that was asleep.
- DirectorWagner MouraStarsSeu JorgeBruno GagliassoLuiz Carlos VasconcelosFacing a violent military dictatorship and an intimidated opposition, writer-turned-politician Carlos Marighella articulates a resistance all the while ousting heinous crimes of torture and the infamous censorship instituted by the regime.
- DirectorKiko GoifmanClaudia PriscillaStarsLinn da QuebradaJup do BairroLinikerA documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances (with plenty of nudity) brazenly take on Brazil's hetero-normative machismo.
- DirectorRicardo MehedffStarsGustavo WerneckJefferson da FonsecaBeatriz FrançaInspired by true events, Inner Court sails the troubled waters of the Brazilian justice system, where a judge finds himself imprisoned within a Kafkaesque type labyrinth of crime, corruption and bureaucracy.
- DirectorPedro DiogenesGuto ParenteStarsYuri YamamotoDemick LopesSamya De LavorIn a bar called Inferninho, the staff dream of escape. A handsome sailor with a dream of finding home arrives.
- DirectorGabriel MartinsStarsCícero LucasCarlos FranciscoCamilla DamiãoA lower middle class family undergoes a series of challenging and profound changes, reinventing themselves and their family ties along the way.
- DirectorSergio OliveiraRenata PinheiroStarsMaeve JinkingsDandara de MoraisMagali BiffBethania Wanderley (Maeve Jinkings) has to return to the place where she was born, a decadent sugar cane mill, to prevent the former cane workers from taking over the land. She will have to deal with her past and her prejudices.
- DirectorSergio OliveiraRenata PinheiroStarsAdrián RuedaCharly SkywalkerReynaldo CubanoA road movie through Peru, Buenos Aires, São Tomé das Letras, Recife and São Paulo, but without a defined destination. It records the lifestyle of those who live free in the world; nomads in the subcontinent of Latin America.
- DirectorMaria de MedeirosStarsMarieta SeveroLaura CastroClaudio LinsEva dreams of having a child in paradise, while a seropositive boy reads Moby Dick at the bottom of an empty pool. Eva is Tânia, a young woman studying to pass a public exam and become a judge. The other Eva is Vanessa, an executive who works at a large publicity agency. Vera, Tânia's mother, coordinates, in fits and starts, an NGO that takes care of HIV-positive children. She has always been a courageous woman and a fighter, as well as a passionate advocate of all liberties. But the fact that her daughter wants to be a mother through the belly of her partner is something she cannot admit. This unthinkable situation brings out a flood of questions, and painful memories of her past as a rebel start to come up. Despite the major differences between them, these two women, mother and daughter, both of them born in a wealthy middle class, still believe in the virtues of dialogue and in the achievements of democracy, while a militarized shallow looms over them. Their story is a portrait of the last months of a period, before the recent presidential election in Brazil.
- DirectorSergio MachadoTercio SilvaStarsCoco ChiarellaJorge PazRômulo BragaIt follows three brothers as they end up living under the same roof with the middle brother's beautiful new wife.
- DirectorDandara FerreiraLô PolitiStarsCaroline AndradeFábio AssunçãoBarrosoFilm about the Bahian singer dives into the moment when shy Gracinha becomes Gal Costa, during the violent, innovative and mind-blowing years that helped shape Brazil's greatest singer.
- DirectorLaís BodanzkyStarsCauã ReymondLuise HeyerIsabél ZuaaAn intimate look at the life of Dom Pedro I and the historical events that revolve around the prince, anticipating a decisive moment in his trajectory. In 1831, the first Emperor of Brazil returned to Europe under adverse conditions, on the English warship Warspite. In view of his abdication to the throne of Brazil, this is a moment of deep reflection for D. Pedro I, who ponders the mistakes and successes of his administration since the moment he arrived in the country with his family at the age of 10, in 1808 .
- DirectorLázaro RamosFlávia LacerdaStarsAlfred EnochTaís AraújoSeu JorgeIn a dystopian near future in Brazil, an authoritarian government orders all citizens of African descent to move to Africa - creating chaos, protests, and an underground resistance movement that inspires the nation.
- DirectorPaulo César SaraceniStarsIrma ÁlvarezReginaldo FariaPaulo PadilhaIrma can only think about getting rid of her cowardly dirty husband. She seeks out lovers not to commit adultery or for pleasure, but to find an accomplice to kill her husband.
- DirectorBraz ChediakStarsJece ValadãoGlauce RochaEmiliano QueirozA decadent hooker, her pimp and the bordello's gay cleaner fight over the gigolo's missing money, with the utmost mental cruelty.
- DirectorJoão Moreira SallesStarsSantiago Badariotti MerloDocumentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for some strange reason, the director felt he couldn't edit it and put it aside. In 2005 he remembers the unfinished film and starts its edition.
- DirectorCarlos ReichenbachStarsBetty FariaClarisse AbujamraIrene StefâniaThe lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems.
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsOthon BastosIsabel RibeiroNildo ParenteThe story of Paulo Honório, a poor kid who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.
- DirectorLuiz Sérgio PersonStarsPaulo JoséSandra BréaSônia ClaraA tireless and incorrigible seducer looks for - and seems to find - the woman of his life.
- DirectorJúlio BressaneStarsAlessandra NegriniMiguel FalabellaBruno GarciaThe great battles are the backdrop for the unfolding of the Egyptian Queen's personal life. Cleopatra's strategy is to seduce the Roman general Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to protect their civilization.
- DirectorJoaquim Pedro de AndradeStarsJosé WilkerLuiz LinharesPaulo César PeréioA film version of the Minas Gerais Conspiracy, a separatist movement that took place on the year 1789, from its beginning to the execution of Tiradentes.
- DirectorMarcus BaldiniStarsTatá WerneckIlana KaplanCauã ReymondKeyla the police officer and the unprepared detective Claudio could not be more incompatible. However they are forced to form a duo to solve the series of mysterious murders that are happening in the quiet city of Joinlândia.
- DirectorEduardo AdesMarcus FernandoStarsJesuíta BarbosaRonaldo BastosIvan CardosoTorquato Neto's professional and artistic career comes to life. The actor Jesuíta Barbosa plays the filmmaker, musician and journalist, from his youth, when he still lived in his hometown (Teresina), until his 28th birthday, when he committed suicide. A tribute to one of the main responsible for the Brazilian artistic revolution during Tropicália, in the late 1960s.
- DirectorAndré Novais OliveiraStarsGrace PassôRusso AprRejane FariaIn order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she adapts to her new life, meeting people and discovering new horizons, trying to overcome her past.
- DirectorMurilo BenícioStarsDébora FalabellaMarcelo FloresStênio GarciaBased on the homonymous play written by Nelson Rodrigues. When witnessing a hit by a car, Arandir, a newly married bank clerk, tries to help the victim, but the man, almost dead, has only time to make one last request: a kiss. Arandir kisses the man, but his act is caught by his father-in-law Aprígio and photographed by Amado Ribeiro, a sensationalist police reporter.
- DirectorCarlos Juliano BarrosCaio CavechiniLaéssio Rodrigues is considered the greatest thief of rare books in Brazil. Over the last five years, this documentary has followed his trajectory, which includes four imprisonments. It is not an ordinary story the one of a young bakery attendant, obsessed with antique papers, who starts to live among fine art merchants and collectors and then sees himself in the newspapers' crime pages. But the decision to narrate it involves dilemmas for which neither Laesio nor the documentary itself were prepared. Although in twisted ways, Laessio evidences the necessity of Brazil to take care of its own History.
- DirectorAndrucha WaddingtonStarsStepan NercessianEduardo SterblitchGianne AlbertoniThe film narrates the story of José Abelardo Barbosa from the moment he leaves medical school to start his first gig as a radio announcer. From that point on we see his life transform and the birth of the best-known alter ego of Brazil, the beloved Chacrinha.
- DirectorDaniela ThomasStarsRodrigo BolzanCaco CioclerGeorgette FadelEnd of the 80's, Brazil. Despite returning to democracy, the country is still experiencing extreme political instability and general uncertainty. Amid this climate of mistrust, a journalist discovers rotten secrets about the country's president, who will further threaten the fragile balance of the nation.
- DirectorZeca BritoLeo GarciaStarsSérgio CabralJoão Vicente de CastroTarso de CastroBohemian. Provocative. Seductive. Revolutionary. Besides being the founder of the controversial tabloid O Pasquim, Tarso de Castro (1941-1991) was one of the greatest journalists in Brazil. By investigating his life, comes out the story of a country immersed in a dictatorship and censorship, where the dream of democracy was born of a libertarian generation.
- DirectorHelena IgnezStarsMário BortolottoClaudinei BrandãoEduardo ChagasInacio is employed in a mechanical workshop, where, in addition to working, he dreams of the Calendar Girl. In the film "My Calendar Girl" the real and imaginary intertwine all the time, in a tangle of surreal sensations.
- DirectorAlan OliveiraThe history of video stores in São Paulo.
- DirectorTyrell SpencerChilean desert, Brazilian Amazon, Colombian Andes and Argentine Pampa. Four destinations in Latin America revisited through fragments of memories, reconstructed from rubble.
- DirectorAly MuritibaStarsGiovanni de LorenziTifanny DopkeEnrique DiazTati and Renet were already trading pics, videos and music by their cell phones, and on the last school trip they started making eye contact. However, what could be the beginning of a love story, turns to an end.
- DirectorGustavo PizziStarsKarine TelesOtávio MüllerAdriana EstevesIrene has only a few days to surpass the anxiety and discover a new strength before sending her eldest son away to the world.
- DirectorErico RassiStarsNelson XavierWellington AbreuJoão AntônioAmador is a retired gunfighter. Lonely and embittered, collects in an album newspapers of his crimes. After several humiliations, will he react with violence to the hostility of the world around.
- DirectorMatheus SouzaStarsAna CaetanoVitória FalcãoClarissa MüllerTwo girls have a chance encounter and instantly befriend. While trying to find themselves, they decide to pursue music together.
- DirectorFernanda PessoaStarsNeuza AmaralArlindo BarretoMário BenvenuttiA historical review of the military dictatorship in Brazil only trough images and sounds from films that belong to the pornochanchada genre, a kind of erotic film that was the most seen and most produced during that period.
- DirectorHique MontanariStarsThalles CabralNélson DinizDouglas FlorenceYONLU is a fiction film based on the real story of a 16 year-old boy who, aided by the internet, won over the world with his talent for music and art. Fluent in five languages, YONLU had a network of virtual friends on all continents. However, no one suspected he was also taking part in a forum for potential suicides.
- DirectorJuliana AntunesStarsAndreia Pereira de SousaLeid FerreiraFelipe Rangel SoaresTwo Brazilian women try everything to survive in the favelas.
- DirectorGabriela AmaralStarsMurilo BenícioLuciana PaesIrandhir SantosThe tense survival tale is set over several late-night hours in a sparsely-peopled Brazilian restaurant. When an armed robbery interrupts an already-terse dynamic between boss and customer, a group of virtual strangers are tossed into a frantic fight for their lives.
- DirectorLuis PinheiroStarsDeborah SeccoAlessandra NegriniMonica IozziLeandra is having a quarter-life crisis: she wants to get married and have kids, but she doesn't even have a boyfriend. He sister Sonia is married and has two kids, but what she most wants is a night out with her best friend, Marinati. Marinati is a workaholic attorney who happened to fall in love just as her career was taking off. Marinati is Keka's boss; Keka, is nervous about the vacation she has planned to save her marriage.
- DirectorMarina MeliandeStarsMarina ProvenzzanoSandra MariaPedro GracindoRio de Janeiro, 2016. The hottest summer in history. The city is preparing for the Olympic Games. Ana, a 32-year-old public defender, works in the defense of a community threatened with removal by the works of the Olympic Park. Meanwhile, she's been noticing purple fungus-like spots on her body. Strange things begin to happen in the city as well as in Ana's body. The temperature rises, creating a humid and suffocating atmosphere. The sultriness accumulates before giving way to heavy rain.
- DirectorLaís BodanzkyStarsMaria RibeiroClarisse AbujamraPaulo VilhenaWhen Rosa's mother makes a surprising disclosure to her one day, Rosa decides to break out of her usual obligations. In so doing she discovers that life holds many surprises in store for her.
- DirectorDaniel RezendeStarsVladimir BrichtaLeandra LealTainá MüllerBased on a true story, "Bingo" is a film about the man behind the mask. Augusto is an actor hungry for a place in the spotlight, following the footsteps of his mother, a stage artist in the 50's. While starring in soft porn and soap operas he finally gets the chance to conquer the crowds when he is cast as "BINGO", a television host clown. With his irreverent humor and natural talent, the show is a big hit, but a clause on his contract forbids him to reveal his true identity. Augusto becomes an anonymous celebrity. With makeup on, he brings happiness to children across the country but not to his own son Gabriel, that sees his father distancing himself in search of recognition. Filled with irony and humor and an exaggerated pop look from the backstage universe of the Brazilian 80's television, the film tells the incredible and surreal story of a man that whilst looking for his artistic value, finds his personal decay.
- DirectorDiego FreitasStarsNicolas PrattesNeusa Maria FaroAndré HendgesBehind the looks of a shy film student, David hides an obscure past that is about to be revealed.
- DirectorMarcelo CaetanoStarsKelner MacêdoLucas AndradeWelket BunguéThe summer is coming and Elias has been dreaming of the sea a lot. In the factory where he works, his responsibilities increase as the holiday season approaches. After one more night working overtime, Elias and the workers decide to go out and have some beer. That is when new encounters and desires open up to his horizons.
- DirectorMauro LimaStarsAlexandre NeroDavi CampolongoJoão Pedro GermanoJoão Carlos Martins was a child with serious health problems. Because of this, he had a reclusive childhood. But one day, the piano came into his life. He arises as a stubborn boy who, in a few years turns into one of the biggest promises of the world classical music.
- DirectorPaulo MorelliStarsJúlio AndradeJesuíta BarbosaMilhem CortazThe young Pedro Malasartes (Jesuita Barbosa) is kind of a good-willed vagrant who travels from town to town playing tricks in gullible strangers in order to have a meal or something that he needs at the moment. Being very clever , he draws the attention of Death (Júlio Barbosa) who is willing to take a vacation and wants him to fill in it's place . He will have to deal also with Próspero (Milhem Cortáz) , a guy that will do anything to avoid the happy cheater from wooing his pretty young sister Áurea (Isis Valverde) .
- DirectorJoão Moreira SallesA personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.
- DirectorAly MuritibaStarsTiago Simioni AndreattaManasses Da SilvaJefferson WalkiuFor seven years Aly Muritiba worked in a prison in Brazil. There, he was part of the Alpha team. After studying film and making some shorts, Aly returns to his old job to be reunited with his former colleagues and make a film about the Alpha Team. The Team consists of 28 people, men and women of different origins and backgrounds, that work as caretakers and custodians for over a thousand criminals in a Brazilian prison. Walkiu becomes the leader of the team and hopes to do a good job. But as time goes by he realizes that his hands are tied.
- DirectorFabio MeiraStarsPriscila BittencourtIsabela TorresMarco RiccaIn the shimmering heat of Brazil, 13-year-old Irene discovers a dark secret her father's been hiding: he has another family and even another daughter with the same name.
- DirectorJuliano DornellesKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsBárbara ColenThomas AquinoSilvero PereiraAfter the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.
- DirectorAndré PellenzStarsAndré BankoffNilton BicudoZéu BrittoAugusto is the chef of a fine restaurant, established for years, which is down due to the success of a former pupil, Patrick, who works in a food truck right in the square in front of the establishment. . Due to the situation, the bank, which is also a partner in the restaurant, appoints the strict Cristina to be the new manager. She immediately runs into Augusto, as she wants to change the local routine in order to make it profitable. But, amidst the pressure to create a new menu, Augusto starts to have a rare syndrome that makes him lose his taste buds.
- DirectorJúlia MuratStarsRaquel KarroRodrigo BolzanNeto MachadoThe loving relationship between a sculptor and a dancer.
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsSonia BragaJosé WilkerMauro MendonçaIn 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 marries Tedoror, the owner of a drugstore. Flor is happy with her new husband but misses the love life with her previous husband. When one day the ghost of Vadhino comes back to pursue her.
- DirectorPedro VasconcelosStarsJuliana PaesLeandro HassumMarcelo FariaDona Flor marries Vadinho, who is very handsome and passionate, but does not offer him much. She supports the family by cooking for her neighbors, but the husband bets most of the money. Vadinho dies suddenly and Dona Flor begins to miss the wedding. She marries the doctor Teodoro Madureira, but he is the opposite of Vadinho. While Dona Flor is married to Theodore, the ghost of her late husband appears.
- DirectorFlávia CastroStarsJeanne BoudierSara AntunesEliane GiardiniIn 1979 a teenage girl emigrates back to Brazil from Paris, plunging her into the political and social storm of that country, and forcing her to confront the disappearance of her father many years earlier.
- DirectorPedro CoutinhoStarsJohnny MassaroRegina BragaBianca ComparatoThe story follows the emotional roller-coaster of Antonio, a young man who has just ended a relationship, but pays for it by believing that he would have no trouble moving on and getting over his ex-girlfriend.
- DirectorHenrique GoldmanStarsMarco PigossiFabiula NascimentoAndré MattosBased of the true story of Júlio Santana, a gunman responsible for 492 murders throughout the country. A Christian, charitable man and a good son, Júlio is always tormented by his conscience every time he pulls the trigger.
- DirectorFelipe BragançaStarsCauã ReymondEduardo MacedoAdeli GonzalesJoca, a Brazilian boy of 13, and Basano La Tatuada a Paraguayan indigenous girl living on the border between the two countries, marked by the waters of the Rio Apa. Joca is in love with Basano and wants to do everything to win her love.
- DirectorAaron Salles TorresStarsCatarina AbdallaFernando Alves PintoTiago D'AvilaInácio, a functional schizophrenic, is a doorman in a building in the South Zone of Rio. He ends up obsessing over one of the residents, making the relationship with his mother unsustainable.
- DirectorArnaldo JaborStarsFernanda MontenegroPaulo GracindoMaria SílviaMiddle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial matter into a trip to hell.
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsLélia AbramoLuiz Inácio Lula da SilvaVinicius de MoraesA detailed look at the events that led to the continuous strikes that shut down many factories during the still repressive days of the military regime. The workers union, led by syndicalist Lula, demanded better work conditions and better payments, fighting not only against their exploitative bosses but also the political establishment of the time. Crowds were gathered, protests and marches were planned, constantly followed by the police but the workers bond and strategy was so strong and efficient that everything turned out in their favor, with peaceful movements and no casualties on both sides.
- DirectorBárbara PazStarsHector BabencoRegina BragaWillem Dafoe"I have already lived my death and now all that is left is to make a film about it." So said the filmmaker Hector Babenco to Bárbara Paz when he realized he did not have much time left. She accepted the challenge to fulfill the last wish of her late partner: to be the main protagonist in his own death. In this tender immersion into the life of one of the greatest filmmakers from South America, Babenco himself consciously bares his soul in intimate and painful situations. He expresses fears and anxieties, and also memories, reflections, and fantasies, in this face-off between his intellectual vigor and physical frailty, which were the hallmarks of his career. From the onset of cancer at the age of 38 until his death at 70, Babenco made of the cinema his medicine and the nourishment that kept him alive. "Babenco - Tell me when I Die" is Barbara Paz's first feature film, but is also in a way Hector's last work: a film about filming so never to die.
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsMozart CintraIvan De SouzaLuiz Paulino Dos SantosDespite being promised to another man, a young orphaned woman falls in love with man working at the farm she lives in , and together they escape. According tradition in Northeast Brazil, her aunt goes after them, in order to kill them for revenge.
- DirectorFernando De BarrosWalter Hugo KhouriRoberto SantosStarsNorma BengellJohn HerbertLilian Lemmertz"As Cariocas" (the women from Rio) is a dramatic comedy, presented as three different episodes, based on stories by famed (in Brazil) Stanislau Ponte Preta. Each story is adapted and directed by a different director, two of them now among Brazil's most acclaimed film makers. The 3 stories deal with the lives of 3 young Rio women. All three live in states of desperate loneliness, in contrast to the apparently vibrant social scene in Copacabana, then Rio's best and liveliest area, arguably the world's most beautiful and swinging beach scene at the time (early to late 60s).
- DirectorKlaus MitteldorfLuciano PatrickStarsBruna MarquezinePeter KetnathFernando Alves PintoOphelia, a decided and determined young photographer, leaves São Vicente, by water, to swim across the sea until she reaches Ubatuba, where she believes her father is located.
- DirectorEliane CosterStarsNatalia MolinaDiego AvelinoFrancisco GomesSandra's mother has been missing for days. Disoriented and without money, she asks Jorge, her distant half brother, for help, but after recording a homophobic aggression, he is being threatened to not release the images.
- DirectorDomingos de OliveiraStarsLeila DinizPaulo JoséFlávio MigliaccioA womanizer suddenly finds a woman who makes him change the way he looks at women. He falls in love and believes she is, in fact, all women in one. Because of that, he faces an important decision: go on with his old life, or embrace this special relationship and become a monogamous man.
- DirectorSandra KogutStarsRegina CaséRogério FróesGisele FróesOver a trio of summers, a caretaker for luxury condominiums relies on her resourcefulness and her eye for opportunity to take advantage of whatever comes her way as her employers are caught in major corruption scandals.
- DirectorJoana MarianiStarsJulio AndradeMarina Ruy BarbosaBruno GagliassoChico and Ana move to an apartment in São Paulo. As they unpack Ana found a cassette tape. It's a mix-tape that Clarisse made 20 years earlier to her husband Daniel. Albeit separated by time, both stories will cross paths in a unique way.
- DirectorJoão Paulo JaburStarsLília CabralJuliana Carneiro da CunhaLeopoldo PachecoMaria, a virgin spinster, is trying magical superstitions to find a husband. In her dialogue with the marriage saint, she implores for a companion. Her father offered her as a bride to Saint Djalminha, if the saint saved her during her complicated birth which ended in the death of her mother. Since then Maria has lived this dilemma: revered and loved by the residents and pilgrims that believe she is a miracle worker; she is desperate to live a great love, with a flesh and blood prospect with real passionate desire. She asks for a sign from the heavens, a clue on how to find a crumb of love when a gypsy arrives on scene saying "someone who loves her very much, but she doesn't know will come from afar on an artists' caravan." Maria can't take the solitude she is living anymore and decides "to find Mr. Right," no matter how much it may cost.
- DirectorArmando PraçaStarsMarco NaniniDenise WeinbergDemick LopesPedro, a 70-year-old gay nurse, is taking care of Daniela, his ailing transgender friend. In order to find her a vacant hospital bed, he decides to help an arrested and wounded criminal to escape.
- DirectorZeca BritoStarsCleoLetícia SabatellaFernando Alves PintoIn 1961, Gov. Leonel Brizola leads the unparalleled Legality movement, a first in the history of Brazil. Fighting for the Constitution, he mobilizes the resistance to ensure President João Goulart's coming to power. Amidst the impending military coup, a mysterious journalist could change the country's path.
- DirectorTata AmaralStarsMarina Ruy BarbosaDaniel RochaSidney SantiagoSao Paulo, Brazil. Isabel, a 25-year-old girl, is kidnapped. The first ATM the criminals try to withdraw money from is broken. It's almost 10:00pm. The kidnappers realize they will not be able to get to the next one on time. What was meant to be an express kidnapping becomes an all-night imprisonment.
- DirectorAllan FitermanStarsCláudia AbreuEduardo MoscovisVera HoltzThe taxi driver Berenice is under a family crisis with her male chauvinist husband and her son, whom is discovering his sexual identity. The murder of a transgender at Copacabana beach makes her start an investigation on her own, what turns her world upside down.
- DirectorEduardo NunesStarsBárbara LuzPatricia PillarZécarlos MachadoA young girl of 13 lives with her mother on an isolated property. They are awaiting the return of their father and husband. But instead, another man appears, transforming the relationship between the mother and daughter.
- DirectorRuy GuerraStarsTony RamosJoão MiguelCharles FricksCarlos is a man doomed by restless memories, that meets with himself, in a time warp. Young Carlos faces the forgetfulness of old Carlos, who doesn't recognize his own appearance. They get a package. But the package seems odd. The knot that ties, the smell, the handwriting on the envelope: this could only be sent by his father, Ernesto, dead many years ago. A father who always created unusual situations. In this time warp, has one Carlos that remembers and a Carlos who forgets, his fun memories besides this genially crazy father.
- DirectorLuiz BolognesiStarsPerpera SuruíEver since their first contact with the Western world in 1969 the Paiter Suruí, an indigenous people living in the Amazon basin, have been exposed to sweeping social changes. Smartphones, gas, electricity, medicines, weapons and social media have now replaced their traditional way of life. Illness is a risk for a community increasingly unable to isolate itself from the modernization brought by white people or the power of the church. Ethnocide threatens to destroy their soul. With dogged persistence, Perpera, a former shaman, is searching for a way to restore the old vitality to his village.
- DirectorRoberto PiresStarsGeraldo Del ReyHelena IgnezLuiza MaranhãoMade in the famous "Água de Meninos" market, the greatest popular market in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Salvador is revealed without prejudices, from the world of high finance up to the sordid environment of exotic cabarets.
- DirectorPaulo NascimentoStarsEdson CelulariLeonardo MachadoSoledad VillamilYOUR WORLD ISN'T FOR MY EYES is a story about the need for tolerance through a metaphor of life - a blind man can finally see but refuses to see the world around him. A story involving a love that disappears because of the lack of understanding one another. A friendship that goes beyond all the difficulties that arise along the way. Emotion through simple situations, recognizable people, that we can find in any city in the world. A blind pizzaiolo, of Italian descent, an Argentine, from a wealthy Jewish family and a friend, the waiter, who becomes the 'eyes of the pizzaiolo.' Within this familiar environment, the story told is about the lack of understanding that exists in our world today. This is not a typical Brazilian story or from a specific place, it is a story of our time about individualism, about respect for what the other desires.
- DirectorRafael PrimotStarsMaria Luísa MendonçaDébora FalabellaMarjorie EstianoA man who lost his taste and his blind wife; an almost deaf girl and her consumerist stepmother; an adult movie actor in love and his completely passionate woman; a sign language teacher and his dilemmas with dumb students. Characters full of love and full of inabilities to cope with their emotional side.
- DirectorCarolina JaborStarsDaniel de OliveiraMarco RiccaMalu GalliA boy's parents accuse a swimming teacher of abusing one of his students.