City of God – 10 Years Later investigates what happened to the actors who took part in the award-winning film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. This documentary shows what City of God’s worldwide success meant to their lives. Were the actors prepared for the film’s success? Did the social background of some of them prove stronger than the opportunity that came their way?
This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
An encounter of novelist Lúcio Cardoso and poet Murilo Mendes haunting ghosts with their characters.
Experimental movie about Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art's Movie Archive (Cinemateca).
Documentary that presents an overview of the production of cartoons and comics in Brazil.
Bianca manages a precarious living as a talented but underemployed actress in Rio de Janeiro, performing for private events dressed as movie icons. Troubled by the belief that she has missed her big break, Bianca's situation is upturned by an audition that leads to a rare opportunity.
Silvana is a tired woman. The world no longer belongs to her, the invisible bothers her, the daily life oppresses her. What she wants sometimes is to abandon everything and go back home.
Two men roam the night of Rio de Janeiro with two prostitutes in search of pleasure and violence.
Benjamim Zambraia is a young drunk who wanders around the city and is sometimes treated with pampering and sometimes with a beating by his parents (Helena Ignez and Otávio Terceiro). As in Chico's book, the boy is obsessed with a big stone.
Mateus is a video store clerk that deals with several weird clients everyday while he dreams to be a filmmaker like Tarantino.
During carnival Flaviana lives a pretty difficult dilemma; how to disguise from her last night lover who refuses to get out of her shower?
Cléo is making her first film, inspired by french cinema and the nouvelle vague.
We are in the Sahara, in Rio de Janeiro, but it could be Beirut!
A self-portrait short film by veteran Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Lanna.
Learn about the trajectory of student leader Marcos Medeiros and learn more about his exile in France and Cuba. In 1968, he joined the counterculture when political activism became an audiovisual expression of intervention in social reality.
Vidigal Hill, 1977. A runaway group of bandits engage in a complex love triangle in the brink of the news that the corrupt Rio de Janeiro mayor decided to make everyone move out of Vidigal, aided by police forces.
Greg (Jorge Caetano) is a screenwriter hired to write a script about Maria Guaranis, a radical-style artist who has gone missing. As the author produces the script, he ends up identifying with Maria and getting lost in the creation process.
Two northeastern brothers live and work as waiters in Baixada Fluminense. The duo tries to balance themselves in an underworld permeated by financial difficulties, prostitution and urban violence. Antônio feels out of place.
