
Fifteen years after her time in Arizona as an exchange student, Fernanda Pessoa returns to find an America between fiction and cliché.
Fifteen years after her time in Arizona as an exchange student, Fernanda Pessoa returns to find an America between fiction and cliché.
Ivan is a young Brazilian delinquent going through a probationary programme. An electronic shackle controls his location, but not his thoughts.
Three handcuffs, one nurse and 900 prisoners. Chief superintendent Walkiu and his Alpha-Team want to professionalise the prison – but end up running against walls.
A young dock worker on the border between Brazil and Uruguay does everything to keep on top of his family, his job and fishing.
Homeless persons occupy the formerly glamorous cinema palace in São Paulo. A theatre workshop recalls the building’s past – and creates projection surfaces for broken biographies.
A reconstruction of the filmmaker’s parents’ path through political struggle in Brazil and life in exile. A generation of leftist activists, their ideals, and the failure of a utopia.
José Domingos de Morais, one of Brazil’s great accordion players. A dreamy trip in time back to an unknown country and a quarry of memories. Bold and enchanting.
So much for political apathy! The student council elections at a school in São Paulo demonstrate the strains of politics and the temptations of populism – and how to resist them.
A vivid, beautiful and hauntingly animated documentary by and about five women. Their own physicality and a multi-perspective view of femininity play the main roles.
A red-light district in Belo Horizonte. The camera is admitted into a “running house”. Love for sale looks like a routine, dreary assembly line exercise here, sometimes almost like a comedy.
The work of a special unit of the “pacifying police” in the run-up to the World Cup in Rio. Patrols, surprise raids, negotiations and a tight-knit Favela community.
Housemaids in Brazil are part of the family. Adolescents talk to women who are like mothers to them but are not allowed to have private lives. The sociogram of a society.
A line takes a stroll along the urban highways of São Paulo.
“Live the Old Times”, Luiza’s T-shirt reads in big letters. At first the sheltered 24-year-old girl with the blue-green strands of hair leafs through an album of photos from her childhood.
A fictitious letter to an uncle who moved far away. Memories of a childhood and descriptions of the present life of a city in upheaval, full of imagination and metaphors.