Eneida
Apr 07, 2022Eneida, 83 years old, makes a journey into her past, in search of her firstborn daughter, whom she has not seen for over two decades.
Documentary
Heloísa Passos
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Cinematografia
May 28, 2008Through conversations held with fifty four of the most distinguished cinematographers working in Brazil and abroad over the last forty years, the documentary explores the working environment, the new tools and the different styles of the professional who controls the light and the shades behind the camera.
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A Mulher Biônica
Apr 09, 2008Eneida
Apr 07, 2022Eneida, 83 years old, makes a journey into her past, in search of her firstborn daughter, whom she has not seen for over two decades.
Documentary
Eneida
Apr 07, 2022Eneida, 83 years old, makes a journey into her past, in search of her firstborn daughter, whom she has not seen for over two decades.
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Eneida
Apr 07, 2022Eneida, 83 years old, makes a journey into her past, in search of her firstborn daughter, whom she has not seen for over two decades.
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Mulher do Pai
Jun 22, 2017Nalu lives with Ruben, her father, in a small country town near the Brazilian border with Uruguay. When Ruben realizes that his daughter is becoming a woman, an ambiguous closeness begins to develop between them.
Drama
Meninas
Mar 07, 2006Evelin, 13, is pregnant with a 22-year-old who recently left the drug trade. Luana, 15 years old, declares that she planned her pregnancy, as she wanted to have a child of her own. Edilene, 14 years old, is expecting Alex's child, who also got her neighbor Joice pregnant. Over the course of a year, the daily lives of these three young women are followed.
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KFZ-1348
Oct 01, 2008In 1965 a VW Beetle is sold in São Paulo, Brazil. Forty years later, the car ends up in a Recife scrapyard in the northeast, with the license plate KFZ-1348. The documentary “The Beetle KFZ-1348” presents the stories of this car through its eight owners, whose lives show a unique portrait of a country.
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Rânia
Jan 29, 2012Rânia is a teenage girl who lives on Santa Teresinha hill in the city of Fortaleza. Her busy days are also occupied by the dream of being a dancer. Rânia's best friend, Zizi, introduces her to 'Sereia da Noite', a local joint where fun, dance, money and sex rock the night. When Rânia meets the choreographer Estela, she will be torn between the possibility to make money in the nightclub and the will to become a "real dancer".
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Viva Volta
Oct 21, 2005A documentary on Brazilian trombone player Raul de Souza who, since 1996, has lived in Paris and suffers because he goes unnoticed, unrewarded in his native land. With the sound of his trombone for a background, the film takes him back to Bangu, in Rio de Janeiro, and retraces his trajectory.
Viva Volta
Oct 21, 2005A documentary on Brazilian trombone player Raul de Souza who, since 1996, has lived in Paris and suffers because he goes unnoticed, unrewarded in his native land. With the sound of his trombone for a background, the film takes him back to Bangu, in Rio de Janeiro, and retraces his trajectory.
Viva Volta
Oct 21, 2005A documentary on Brazilian trombone player Raul de Souza who, since 1996, has lived in Paris and suffers because he goes unnoticed, unrewarded in his native land. With the sound of his trombone for a background, the film takes him back to Bangu, in Rio de Janeiro, and retraces his trajectory.
Bete & Deise
Jan 27, 2012Van Oldenborgh's practice explores social relations through an investigation of gesture in the public sphere. Bete & Deise brings about a meeting between veteran telenovela actress and political activist Bete Mendes and Deise Tigrona, one of the most powerful voices in Baile funk, whose song Injeção was the basis for M.I.A.'s Bucky Done Gun.
Eneida
Apr 07, 2022Eneida, 83 years old, makes a journey into her past, in search of her firstborn daughter, whom she has not seen for over two decades.
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Pele de Vidro
Oct 14, 2023A poetic and personal cinematic meditation on displacement and loss, SKIN OF GLASS follows filmmaker Denise Zmekhol’s journey after discovering that her late father's most celebrated work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil, has become occupied by hundreds of homeless families.
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Nothing Lasts Forever
Mar 12, 2022A poetic and personal cinematic meditation on displacement and loss, SKIN OF GLASS follows filmmaker Denise Zmekhol’s journey after discovering that her late father's most celebrated work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil, has become occupied by hundreds of homeless families.
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Fortaleza Hotel
Jan 27, 2022Pilar, a young hotel maid, has her path crossed by Shin, a middle-aged South Korean guest. The plans of both go wrong and, despite everything that separates them, they end up getting closer and establishing a relationship of solidarity.
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A Assembleia - Brasil
Oct 06, 20225 Vezes Chico: O Velho e sua Gente
Sep 20, 2015Five directors with five completely different cinematic styles go on an affectionate journey through each one of the five states bathed by the gigantic São Francisco River. Faith, passions, legends and the search for survival in the riverside communities of this river full of colors, which cuts through the dry hinterlands and flows into the exuberant sea of Northeastern Brazil.
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Birdie
Oct 13, 2015Birdie used to live in the tree, but his nest’s been broken and he’s now living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro with all he needs to survive: two abandoned dogs and the cart from which he sells tropical fruits and a lot of dreams.
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Waste Land
Jan 24, 2010An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
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Rádio Gogó
Jan 01, 1998Drama
Areia
Oct 25, 2008Drama
Nothing Lasts Forever
Mar 12, 2022Documentary
O Amor Segundo B. Schianberg
Feb 12, 2010Trapped inside an apartment in Sao Paulo, an actor and a director of videos explore mutual love. Adapted from Benjamin Schianberg character, in this book Marcal Aquino, "I receive the worst news of your beautiful lips."
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Comment t'oublier
Oct 15, 2010Trapped inside an apartment in Sao Paulo, an actor and a director of videos explore mutual love. Adapted from Benjamin Schianberg character, in this book Marcal Aquino, "I receive the worst news of your beautiful lips."
Drama
Fille montante
Mar 07, 2013Trapped inside an apartment in Sao Paulo, an actor and a director of videos explore mutual love. Adapted from Benjamin Schianberg character, in this book Marcal Aquino, "I receive the worst news of your beautiful lips."
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Construindo Pontes
Aug 28, 2017Heloisa receives a gift: a collection of super-8 films with images of enormous cataracts that once comprised the Seven Falls (Sete Quedas), a natural paradise destroyed by the construction of the world's largest hydroelectric plant, in the early 1980s. The construction of the plant, at the height of the Brazilian military regime, awakens memories of a past immersed in a political authoritarianism. The film starts from the relationship between Heloisa, the filmmaker, and her father, Alvaro, an engineer who had his moment of glory during the Brazilian military dictatorship. They question the political trajectory of Brazil.Projections and maps become the first bridges to connect with the past. However, it is the inescapable present that really strikes Alvaro and Heloisa as they position themselves on opposite sides.
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Entre Lá e Cá
Aug 24, 2012Larissa, Morgana, Carol, Amanda, Talia and Juli. Who live on the island of Amparo, which lies across from Port, in Southern Brazil. They go for walks along two different river beaches, away from the constraints, these girls chat about mutual desires, trade secrets and talk about love.
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Viver a Vida
Dec 31, 1991The daily routine of a streetwise office boy, waiting in long lines, having to deal with some fishy situations, listening to music, and meeting people.
Se Tudo Fosse Sempre Assim
May 01, 2004
Osório
Aug 01, 2008The square was created in 1874. Since 1879 it's name is Praça General Osório. It has a clock that displays the official time of Curitiba city, capital of the State of Paraná in Brazil. The busy square, people gathering together and being apart from each other. A reminder to the fact that each person may be noticeable.
Osório
Aug 01, 2008The square was created in 1874. Since 1879 it's name is Praça General Osório. It has a clock that displays the official time of Curitiba city, capital of the State of Paraná in Brazil. The busy square, people gathering together and being apart from each other. A reminder to the fact that each person may be noticeable.
Osório
Aug 01, 2008The square was created in 1874. Since 1879 it's name is Praça General Osório. It has a clock that displays the official time of Curitiba city, capital of the State of Paraná in Brazil. The busy square, people gathering together and being apart from each other. A reminder to the fact that each person may be noticeable.
Osório
Aug 01, 2008The square was created in 1874. Since 1879 it's name is Praça General Osório. It has a clock that displays the official time of Curitiba city, capital of the State of Paraná in Brazil. The busy square, people gathering together and being apart from each other. A reminder to the fact that each person may be noticeable.
Estação
May 01, 2010Drama
Elo
Jan 20, 2009On January 19, 1982, Lilian lives her first disappointment. She is fifteen and after waiting for a long time, she realises that she has been abandoned. Lilian returns home alone and on her way she understands what pain is. On January 19, 1982, Elis Regina died at the age of 36. And the whole city understands what loss is. That day, Lilian and the city are the same.
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Deslembro
Jun 20, 2019On January 19, 1982, Lilian lives her first disappointment. She is fifteen and after waiting for a long time, she realises that she has been abandoned. Lilian returns home alone and on her way she understands what pain is. On January 19, 1982, Elis Regina died at the age of 36. And the whole city understands what loss is. That day, Lilian and the city are the same.
Drama
Amor?
Jun 07, 2011The dramatic documentary recounts eight stories of love affairs in which those involved experienced some kind of physical or psychological violence. The real cases are interpreted by professional actors. The question raised by the film is whether love can be freed from violence, prompting the viewer to reflect.
Drama
Gaijin: Ama-me Como Sou
Sep 02, 2005In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her.
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Viajo Porque Preciso, Volto Porque Te Amo
May 07, 2010In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her.
Drama
Paisagem de Meninos
Mar 01, 2003Adventure
Paisagem de Meninos
Mar 01, 2003Adventure
Visionários
Jan 01, 2002Documentary
Do Tempo que Eu Comia Pipoca
Jan 01, 2001Do Tempo que Eu Comia Pipoca
Jan 01, 2001
Vala Comum
Sep 01, 1994Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political prisoners who fought against the military dictatorship.
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Vala Comum
Sep 01, 1994Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political prisoners who fought against the military dictatorship.
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Vala Comum
Sep 01, 1994Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political prisoners who fought against the military dictatorship.
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Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
Oct 01, 2012Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the world through act or invention—directed by the world's most celebrated documentary filmmakers.
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A Metade de Nós
Nov 02, 2023Francisca and Carlos struggle to adapt to their new reality after the suicide of their only son, Felipe. Immersed in fantasies, fears and melancholy, the couple go through radical experiences. Carlos moves into Felipe's old apartment, alienating himself in the world of his dead son. Francisca, haunted by guilt, dedicates herself to unraveling the enigma of suicide.
Drama
Bocaína
Oct 06, 2022In Bocaina, Minas Gerais, two sisters live peacefully and in isolation until the arrival of an outsider to the region. The plot follows in the footsteps of Zulma (Malu Gali), Musk (Ana Flavia) and Josevelt (Alejandro Claveaux). Josevelt is the mysterious fellow who, along with these two conflict-filled women, helps them free themselves from their restraints. Under the context of a pandemic, the narrative addresses the feeling of suspension and uncertainty, so present today.
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