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?
Ana, a Portuguese actress, dives into Brazil's current atmosphere of identity and political crisis while trying to portray in a feature film the colourful life of famous singer and actress Carmen Miranda, who helped define Brazil's identity.
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.
Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the terminal phase of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to enjoy the last days of her life together with his two best friends.
An encounter of novelist Lúcio Cardoso and poet Murilo Mendes haunting ghosts with their characters.
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.
In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arrests, killings, kidnappings. The film Seventy rejoins 18 characters of this story, forty years later. The film mixes the excitement of revisiting the past with a vision, sometimes even good humored of everything they lived. Many years afterwards they relive their experience of pain, violence and survival, of rebuilding their own story and continuing to believe in the possibility of improving the world.
This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
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.
Ana who lost her mother, works as a dog walker in the south of Rio de Janeiro and lives on the outskirts of the city. Her brother is discovering the drag queen universe, creating tensions with the homophobic neighborhood. Ana has a group of activist friends who try to support her, including mental health support. The arrival of an old boyfriend stirs up personal tensions and draws the attention of armed groups that dominate the region.
A soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art.
During carnival Flaviana lives a pretty difficult dilemma; how to disguise from her last night lover who refuses to get out of her shower?
Mateus is a video store clerk that deals with several weird clients everyday while he dreams to be a filmmaker like Tarantino.
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.
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.
Focusing on the real-imaginary doubt, the film delves into the role of the stage actor alongside the set-up of Sam Shepard's 'Mente Mentira'.
Neville D'Almeida’s “Bye Bye Amazônia” tackles on the problems that plague the world’s biggest rainforest and its native people.
It is a realistic musical documentary, mixing the old and the new, exchanging chronological positions, creating a suggestive carousel for the audience. A tribute to Sérgio Ricardo's cinematographic work narrated through the assembly of scenes and tracks taken from the 7 films he directed. In this anthology, the most recurrent theme in the author's work is portrayed: the struggle of the oppressed worker who finds love, music and the community his escape valve.
