Marcos de Andrade

Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São Paulo to find her sister Tania, who lives with her grandson Jaime. Joana enters the universe of insecurity, replying to an application for house cleaning. She bonds with her colleagues, and their struggle for better conditions gives Joana’s life a new meaning. Her relationship with young Jaime brings back old memories. In the second part, after the death of her estranged father, Flavia (32) moves to her farm with her wife Mara. The couple suffer a shock of reality when facing the harshness of rural life. The contact with the abandoned house reveals to Flavia unknown aspects of her father. She begins to suspect that there is something supernatural in the woods.

Amador is a retired and ostracized gunman. Alone and bitter, he collects newspaper clippings of his old crimes in an album. After several humiliations, he will react with violence to the world’s hostility that surrounds him while also trying to get back to action.

In São Paulo, Brazil, the lonely 40-something guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment. She is addicted to her only companions: cigarettes. Baby has a constant conflict with her two sisters, over a couch she inherited from their deceased aunt. When Max, a restaurant musician, moves to the next door apartment, Baby has a crush on him and sees a chance to have a life again. Soon they start having a love affair, and Baby decides to quit smoking. However, her abstinence will be tough to deal with, when she notices Max still misses his ex-wife.

Elder and Daiane are a couple in the midst of an urban war: while he fights to survive, their first child is about to be born.

'Second Call' focuses on the resilience stories of teachers and students in a complex public education system. After some time off from teaching, Lúcia Helena returns to the classroom, now giving night classes to teenagers and adults. Along with other three teachers and the principal, she faces institutional adversities and the lack of appreciation without flinching. The conflicts involve both the faculty and the student body and, in this scenario, Education emerges as a hope, reminding everyone that it is never too late to have a second chance.

Un policier enquêtant sur un meurtre se retrouve pris dans une bataille entre le monde visible et un royaume souterrain peuplé de créatures mythiques.

Trois amis idéalistes ont créé Aruanas, une ONG qui enquête sur les activités d’une société minière opérant dans la forêt amazonienne. C'est un lieu de dure réalité où se produisent des événements étranges. Les militants, chacun suivant ses propres pistes d’enquête, ont présenté une pléthore de preuves révélant des crimes contre l’environnement. Bien que ces femmes découvrent un réseau dangereux de crimes et de secrets, elles doivent également composer avec leurs propres fantômes et drames personnels...

After losing her mother, a young woman named Sofia infiltrates a powerful family to seek revenge for those they have harmed.