Pablo Padilla

Manuela reports her husband to the federal police and enters the witness protection program. When he goes to prison, she leaves everything and tries to escape to Europe before he is released.

Hermes is an Argentine anthropologist who is living with the villagers of the Damara ethnic group in Namibia. Researching about the possible origins of mankind and specialized in the cosmogony of some people, he manages to obtain some results. He travels to Argentina searching an answer in San Felix, the last afro-descendant community in the country. Hermes provides a unique bridge that will help to recover the memory of a changed history, with the conviction that mankind descended from amphibious beings. But his desire of knowledge will show him how dangerous it is. Director Pablo Cesar specializes in co-productions between Argentina and Africa.

Est-ce possible de concilier bonheur individuel et justice sociale ? C'est la quête paradoxale de plusieurs étrangers installés au Brésil. Charlotte Rampling incarne un chirurgien esthétique britannique déterminée à dissuader quiconque voudrait passer sous le bistouri. Irène Jacob est une anthropologue française dont les préoccupations libidinales l’emportent sur sa conscience politique. Bill Pullman campe un ambassadeur américain perturbé qui fuit ses responsabilités en se cachant dans l’une des favelas les plus dangereuses de Rio. Là, il devient complice des manigances de Fisher Stevens, un guide touristique, doublé d’un escroc romantique. Toutes ces histoires se rencontrent dans une comédie fantaisiste néanmoins ancrée dans la réalité de Rio de Janeiro, connu à juste titre comme “la ville de merveilles.”

Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.